Associate Cost Manager - Life Sciences UK

Arcadis; Oxford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in sustainable design and consultancy seeks an experienced Associate Cost Consultant in Oxford. The role involves managing high-profile projects in life sciences, focusing on budgeting and team leadership while delivering exceptional client service. Join Arcadis to contribute to impactful solutions and foster a collaborative environment to enhance quality of life globally.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working on large complex construction projects within Research and Life Science.
• Strong leadership skills, coaching and mentoring junior colleagues.
• Ability to lead projects from inception to completion.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage cost management assignments from inception to completion.
• Create project costings and budgets, ensuring targets are met.
• Build relationships with clients to enhance service delivery.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Cost estimating

Team leadership

Innovation in service

Education

MRICS Chartered Quantity Surveyor

Tools

Digital Cost Management

CostX

5D BIM

Job description

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Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We're excited to be growing our Life Science & Research Science Cost Management team. We are looking for an experienced Associate Cost Consultant to join us delivering high-profile research, technological and life science facilities for market leading national and global clients.

As part of our Cost Management team, you'll be involved in a wide range of projects from global and high profile to small and impactful, ensuring they're delivered on time and to budget. Your expertise in cost management, planning, estimating, budgeting and managing costs will drive growth and smarter working.

We work with our clients around the world to create, support, and enhance smart, safe and sustainable places where people live, work, learn and thrive. Places impact on the quality of people's lives. Whether new homes, shops, workplaces, schools and hospitals, manufacturing, research and development facilities, or data and distribution centres. People and communities thrive when the spaces in which they live, work, move and play are designed and managed in a way that best meets their needs.

Role accountabilities:

In this role, you'll provide professional Quantity Surveying and Cost Management services to high-profile clients working on science facilities across the UK & Europe with a focus on of London, Oxford and Cambridge.

• Lead, coach and develop the skills and capabilities of team members in order to share knowledge, increase team skill level and improve the standard of service delivery
• Create project costings and budgets from clear objectives, managing finances across a project in order to ensure the profit and budgetary targets are met and best value outcomes are achieved
• Lead and manage individual cost management assignments from inception to completion, managing teams and resources to ensure delivery standards meet client expectations
• Demonstrable understanding of clients key objectives with the appropriate sector
• Monitor and review the performance and behaviour of all team members, including educating and influencing others, and take action to ensure compliance with the organisational policies and codes of conduct across the entire project
• Assure compliance with contracts in terms of project delivery parameters and scope of service
• Analyse and compile a range of complex data and documents, using knowledge to review and assess analysis and provide recommendations to contribute to project decision-making
• Use own knowledge and experience of industry best practice to support the development of current cost and commercial management systems and processes
• Work to improve services and drive innovation to increase team contribution to project delivery
• Manage relationships with customers in order to identify opportunities to improve the cost management offering and deliver customer satisfaction
• Act as a key technical resource within the field of cost/commercial management, providing technical advice and solutions to internal colleagues in order to support successful project delivery across a range of projects
• Build valued relationships with senior clients and stakeholders, in order to ensure client satisfaction, develop the cost management service and create new business opportunities

Qualifications & Experience:

First and foremost, you share our passion for improving the quality of life. You pride yourself for the part you play in transforming the world around you and understand the importance of teamwork. You are a technically capable with a passion for the industrial manufacturing sector and delivering exceptional results and come to us with:

• MRICS Chartered Quantity Surveyor
• Passionate about driving innovation in service and delivering exceptional results
• Proven experience working on large complex construction projects within Research, Technology and Life Science, Research, Technology and Life Science,
• Ability to lead projects from inception to completion
• Strong cost estimating experience and rate / benchmark knowledge
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build good client relationships
• Experience coaching and mentoring junior colleagues
• Good leadership skills
• Experience with Digital Cost Management and CostX, 5D BIM and Benchmarking tools

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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