Associate Cost Consultant - Local Authority

Arcadis; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering and consultancy firm in Birmingham is seeking an Associate Consultant to manage commercial aspects of projects ranging from £1m to £40m. The role involves ensuring project delivery within budget and quality standards, coaching team members, and providing specialist technical advice. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in project management and construction, alongside relevant professional qualifications. Join us in delivering sustainable solutions for a better planet.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in delivering medium/large projects across an entire lifecycle.
• Strong Construction technology and technical experience and cost planning experience is preferred.
• CSCS card holder.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of commercial management for projects within the local authority sector.
• Produce reports and forecasts while tracking budgets.
• Manage relationships and collaborate with clients and external stakeholders.

Skills

Cost and commercial management

Project delivery across lifecycle

Strong people management

Construction technology and technical experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline

Professional qualification or chartered status to RICS or CIOB

Job description

Overview

Arcadis Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

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:

As an Associate Consultant, you’ll lead the delivery of commercial management for projects within the local authority sector, working on programs of work ranging from £1m to £40m. You’ll play a key role in managing resources, ensuring projects are delivered within time, cost, and quality standards, and building strong relationships with senior clients and stakeholders. This is your opportunity to apply your technical expertise, leadership skills, and innovative thinking to deliver best-value outcomes and contribute to the transformation of mobility infrastructure. Coaching and development of other team members in order to share knowledge, increase team skill level and improve the standard of service delivery.

Role accountabilities:

You will 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
• Possess the skills and experience to actively support the internal team and manage more junior staff on technically complex projects/programme of works typically ranging between £1m and £40m
• Leadership: Strong people management and motivational skills, with experience building and managing client relationships at senior levels.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Experience Proven track record in delivering medium/large projects across an entire lifecycle, with expertise in cost and commercial management.
• Impact: A passion for creating value and driving success in complex, high-profile projects.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline
• Professional qualification or chartered status to RICS or CIOB status
• CSCS card holder
• Strong Construction technology and technical experience and cost planning experience is preferred

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.

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.