Cost/ Senior Cost Manager

Arcadis; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in sustainable design and engineering is seeking a Senior Cost Manager to join the Education sector. The role involves managing costs and client relationships while coaching team members to improve service delivery. Candidates should have experience in higher education and hold an MRICS qualification. This position offers a dynamic workload with significant opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing medium complexity projects.
• Higher Education experience.
• Laboratory experience.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the coaching and development of team members.
• Manage multiple cost projects and deliver on set deadlines.
• Provide specialist technical advice on cost/commercial management.

Skills

Team Collaboration

Cost Management

Client Relationship Management

Risk Analysis

Education

MRICS or equivalent

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 have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Cost Manager to join our established Education sector.

The core responsibilities will largely relate to our work with multiple Higher Education and museum clients across the UK. The successful candidate will be expected to be technically excellent and have a broad range and experience of cost management expertise including experience working on higher education projects.

The job will involve a mixed and varied workload with often the need to balance a number of different instructions simultaneously.

The candidate will largely be focused on service delivery. The candidate should be confident in dealing directly with clients.

The candidate will be required to manage their time effectively to meet deadlines and ensuring time expended aligns with the cost forecast to ensure profitability of instructions.

Role accountabilities:

• Assist in the coaching and development of other team members in order to share knowledge, increase team skill level and improve the standard of service delivery
• Work within established financial systems and budgets to produce reports and forecasts and track budgets, overseeing costing and variances in order to manage and control cost variables
• Deliver a number of small to medium cost projects and assignments or significant components of larger assignments, ensuring appropriate use of resources and budgets to deliver the required scope of work within set deadlines
• Provide advice to colleagues on risk management, compliance and associated behaviours, to ensure adherence to Arcadis' risk and compliance processes
• Present any project risks or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted
• Analyse and review a range of data and documents to collate key themes and trends, using this analysis in conjunction with own knowledge to provide advice and make recommendations to support cost and commercial management decision-making
• Use own knowledge and experience combined with research of industry best practice to analyse existing processes and policies • Share knowledge and provide insightful recommendations to assist service improvement and innovation
• Interact effectively and proactively across the organisation, seeking to develop ways to support collaboration with the cost management function, and applying technical knowledge to ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet cost expectations
• Provide specialist technical advice to senior management on issues relating to cost/commercial management, providing solutions and actively sharing knowledge in order to support successful delivery
• Manage relationships and collaborate with clients and external stakeholders, in order to ensure client satisfaction and create new business opportunities
• Demonstrable understanding of clients key objectives within the appropriate sector

Qualifications & Experience:

• Higher Education experience
• Laboratory experience
• Experience of managing medium complexity projects
• Proven ability to work in a collaborative team environment
• MRICS or equivalent

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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