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 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.

The Associate Cost Consultant will support and lead cost management activities across major Rail, Highway and Aviation programmes in the UK. Working as part of the Mobility Commercial Management team, the role involves regular site‑based engagement (around 2–3 days per week across the London area), close collaboration with contractors and clients, and contribution to the delivery of consistent, high‑quality commercial outcomes.

Role accountabilities:

• Lead, coach and develop team members, promoting knowledge‑sharing and building capability to strengthen overall service delivery standards.
• Prepare robust project costings and budgets from defined objectives, managing financial performance to ensure profit targets are met and best‑value outcomes achieved.
• Oversee and deliver cost management assignments from inception to completion, coordinating teams and resources to meet client expectations consistently.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of client priorities within the relevant sector, aligning delivery approaches to support their key objectives.
• Monitor team performance and conduct, providing guidance where required and ensuring adherence to organisational policies, processes and codes of conduct.
• Ensure full compliance with contract requirements, maintaining accurate delivery parameters and scope of service across all project activities.
• Analyse and interpret complex data and documentation, applying professional judgement to provide clear, evidence‑based recommendations that inform project decisions.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior clients and stakeholders, identifying opportunities to enhance the cost management service and support future business growth.

Qualifications & Experience:

• At least 10 years’ experience delivering medium to large‑scale infrastructure projects across the full lifecycle.
• Demonstrable experience in cost and commercial management within the Rail, Highway or Aviation sectors.
• Experience working with NEC3/NEC4 contracts, including application of contract mechanisms, managing compensation events and supporting compliant commercial delivery.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including engagement with senior client representatives.
• Proven ability to lead teams and contribute positively to team culture.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex commercial data.
• Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying or a relevant discipline.
• Professional qualification or chartership (e.g. RICS) preferred.
• CSCS card holder or willingness to obtain.

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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