Associate Quantity Surveyor, Mixed-Use Projects (Infra & Resi)

Poutrix; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in sustainable design seeks an Associate Cost Consultant to oversee financially driven strategies in large infrastructure projects. This role requires a blend of technical expertise and strategic input to enhance project deliveries, while fostering team leadership and client relationships. Relevant qualifications are essential for achieving business goals and driving improvements.

Qualifications

• CSCS card holder.
• Professional experience delivering large and complex infrastructure projects.
• Proven ability to manage and motivate teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of technical specialists for cost management services.
• Ensure financial performance meets budgets and profit targets.
• Build relationships with clients and stakeholders.

Skills

Process Improvement

Team Leadership

Client Relationship Management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Relevant professional qualification or chartered status

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 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated toimproving 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.

As an Associate Cost Consultant, you will help lead the Cost and Commercial Management service across Development Led Infrastructure projects, supporting project teams and ensuring work aligns with business goals. You will manage financial performance, motivate teams, and build strong relationships with clients and stakeholders to ensure satisfaction and deliver value.

In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor, providing technical expertise and strategic input to deliver successful outcomes on major infrastructure projects. You will continuously seek opportunities to improve processes and systems, driving innovation and enhancing project delivery.

Role Accountabilities:

• Lead, motivate, and manage a team of technical specialists to provide efficient cost and commercial management services.
• Manage the financial performance of projects, ensuring costs, schedules, and efficiency meet profit and budgetary targets.
• Support project management teams in delivering commercial aspects of projects within budget and contractual specifications.
• Monitor team performance, ensuring compliance with organizational policies and codes of conduct.
• Assure compliance with contracts regarding project delivery parameters and scope.
• Analyze complex information and oversee recommendations to improve cost management services.
• Continuously develop processes and lead improvements in cost and commercial management systems.
• Build strong relationships with senior clients and stakeholders to identify opportunities and create new business opportunities.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Relevant professional qualification or chartered status.
• CSCS card holder.
• Professional experience delivering large and complex infrastructure projects.
• Proven ability to manage, motivate, and lead teams.
• Experience building client relationships at the executive level and acting as a trusted advisor.
• Successful track record of delivering commercial advice on infrastructure projects, particularly large residential and mixed-use schemes.

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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