Senior Cost Consultant Occupiers and Retail

Arcadis is the worlds leading company delivering sustainable design engineering and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36000 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 worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role Description:

The Senior Cost Manager will lead and deliver cost and commercial management services for occupier and retail projects ensuring the highest standards of client satisfaction project delivery and value. This role is integral to Arcadis mission of providing innovative sustainable and commercially robust solutions for our clients in the occupier and retail sectors.

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 peoples lives. Whether new homes shops workplaces schools and hospitals manufacturing research and development facilities or data and distribution centers. 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:

Project Delivery

• Lead cost management for multiple retail and occupier fit-out refurbishment and development projects (typically 5m40m+).
• Oversee project lifecycle from inception to completion ensuring projects are delivered on time within budget and to client expectations.
• Prepare and manage cost plans estimates tender documents contract administration and final accounts.

Client &Stakeholder Engagement

• Build maintain and grow relationships with occupier clients retail developers landlords consultants and contractors.
• Understand and deliver on client objectives providing pro-active commercial advice and solutions.
• Represent Arcadis in meetings with clients stakeholders and external consultants.

Financial & Commercial Control

• Monitor and report on project costs financial risks and variances.
• Provide clear accurate cost reporting and advice to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Advise on procurement strategies value engineering and risk mitigation.

Team Leadership & Development

• Mentor coach and develop junior cost management staff supporting their professional growth.
• Promote knowledge sharing best practice and continuous improvement across the team.

Process Improvement & Innovation

• Review and enhance existing cost management processes drawing on industry best practice and digital tools.
• Lead initiatives for service improvement and innovation in retail and occupier cost management.

Compliance & Risk

• Ensure all projects comply with Arcadis policies client requirements and statutory regulations.
• Identify and escalate project risks and issues to senior management recommending mitigation strategies.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Education: Bachelors degree (or equivalent) in Quantity Surveying Construction Management or related discipline.
• Professional Status: MRICS MAPM or equivalent chartered status.
• Experience: time served experience in cost management experience with significant exposure to retail and occupier sectors.
• Proven track record in delivering fit-out refurbishment and new build retail projects.
• Strong client-facing negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience leading project teams and mentoring junior staff.
• Proficiency in relevant digital tools (e.g. CostX CATO MS Excel Power BI).
• CSCS card holder.

Why Arcadis

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its 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.

Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll 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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