Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.
We are more than 36, 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 worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Role description:
1. Spearhead the cost and commercial management service across complex university, wider education and cultural commissions
2. A significant managerial position, individuals will provide a leadership role to their function and will be accountable for ensuring all work is executed in line with business plans and goals, and will have significant technical knowledge and experience in their field
Role accountabilities:
3. Lead, motivate and manage a team of technical specialists, setting objectives, reviewing performance and developing skills to ensure the provision of an efficient cost and commercial management service to projects
4. Manage the financial performance of cost and commercial management projects across their life cycle, taking responsibility for costs, schedules and efficiency to ensure profit and budgetary targets are met and best value outcomes are achieved
5. Lead and manage the commercial aspects of projects across the organisation, supporting project management teams to deliver work within budget and to required contract specifications
6. Monitor and review the performance and behaviour of all team members, including educating and influencing others, and take action to ensure organisational policies and codes of conduct are followed
7. Assure compliance with contracts in terms of project delivery parameters and scope of service
8. Examine and review complex information from a range of sources and oversee recommendations provided by other specialists, in order to improve the long-term performance of the cost management service
9. Seek to continuously develop processes and manage the implementation of new cost and commercial management system improvements, working to improve services, drive innovation and enhance project delivery
10. Manage the overall business relationship with key customers and customer groups in order to identify opportunities to improve the cost management offering and drive customer satisfaction
11. Act as a senior technical expert, providing strategic advice to other senior managers on cost and commercial management matters, in order to support successful delivery in line with project objectives and strategies
12. Manage and build strong working relationships with senior clients and stakeholders, in order to ensure client satisfaction, develop and extend the cost management service and create new business opportunities
13. Possess the skills and experience to actively support the internal team and manage resources on technically complex projects/programme of works typically ranging between £10m and £m+
Qualifications & Experience:
14. Relevant professional experience, including of delivering large and complex projects across an entire project life cycle
15. Proven ability to manage, motivate and guide large teams, and demonstrable leadership ability
16. Experience of building and utilising client relationships at executive level, including the ability to act as a trusted advisor
17. Bachelors degree or equivalent
18. Relevant professional qualification or chartered status
19. CSCS card holder