Associate CSA Cost Manager - Data Centres (Norway)

Arcadis; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking an Associate CSA Cost Consultant to bolster the CSA Commercial Management team. You’ll lead cost management on a major data centre project, with 50% of time on site in Norway and a 1 week on/1 week off rotation pattern.

You will develop budgets, coach team members, manage client relationships at senior levels, and drive innovative cost-management solutions across projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline.
• Experience in a CSA Cost & Commercial role.
• In-depth technical knowledge of construction processes and cost & commercial management.
• Experience completing commercial analysis and insights.
• Experience working with external stakeholders to build client relationships.
• Experience managing relationships at senior-management level.
• Experience of managing people and leadership skills including the ability to motivate others.
• Experience building and managing client relationships at senior-management level, including acting as a trusted advisor.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop the skills and capabilities of team members to share knowledge and improve service delivery.
• Create project costings and budgets to meet objectives, managing finances to ensure profit and best value.
• Lead and manage cost management assignments from inception to completion.
• Demonstrable understanding of clients’ objectives within the sector.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with policies and codes of conduct across the project.
• Assure compliance with contracts in terms of delivery parameters.
• Analyse complex data and provide recommendations for project decisions.
• Support development of cost and commercial management systems and processes.
• Work to improve services and drive innovation to increase team contribution.
• Manage relationships with customers to identify opportunities and deliver satisfaction.
• Provide technical advice and solutions to internal teams to enable project delivery.

Skills

Cost management

Budgeting

Cost forecasting

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Client relationship

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 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 are looking for a Associate CSA Cost Consultant to join our growing CSA Commercial Management team.

You will play a key role in delivering one of our biggest data centre construction projects in the Nordics.

50% of your time will be based on site in Norway - 1 week on 1 week from home rotation

Role accountabilities:

• 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:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline
• Previous experience in a similar CSA Cost & Commercial role
• In depth technical knowledge, including construction processes and cost & commercial management
• Experience completing commercial analysis and insights
• Experience working closely with external stakeholders to build client relationships
• Experience managing business relationships and supporting with senior management level activities
• Experience of managing people, and leadership skills including the ability to motivate others
• Experience in building and managing client relationships at senior-management level, including the ability to act as a trusted advisor

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.

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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.