Associate Cost Manager - Education

Arcadis; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading design and engineering consultancy in the UK is seeking an experienced Associate Cost Manager to join their Education Cost Management team. You will lead and manage cost management assignments, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget. The ideal candidate must hold an MRICS qualification, have strong leadership skills, and a proven track record in complex construction projects. This role will allow you to drive innovation and contribute to meaningful projects that enhance quality of life.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working on large complex construction projects within Education or a related field.
• Ability to lead projects from inception to completion.
• Experience coaching and mentoring junior colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop team members to improve service delivery.
• Create project costings and budgets to meet profit targets.
• Manage individual cost management assignments from inception to completion.

Skills

Cost estimating

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Coaching and mentoring

Education

MRICS Chartered Quantity Surveyor

Tools

Digital Cost Management

CostX

5D BIM

Job description

Associate Cost Manager - Education

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’re excited to be growing our Education Cost Management team. We are looking for an experienced Associate Cost Consultant to join us delivering high‑profile projects for market‑leading national and global clients. As part of our cost management team, you’ll be involved in a wide range of projects – from global and high‑profile to small and impactful – ensuring they’re delivered on time and to budget. Your expertise in cost management, planning, estimating, budgeting and managing costs will drive growth and smarter working. 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 people’s lives. Whether new homes, shops, workplaces, schools and hospitals, manufacturing, research and development facilities, or data and distribution centres, 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

• Lead, coach and develop the skills and capabilities of team members in order to share knowledge, increase team skill level and improve the standard of service delivery
• Create project costings and budgets from clear objectives, managing finances across a project in order to ensure the profit and budgetary targets are met and best‑value outcomes are achieved
• Lead and manage individual cost management assignments from inception to completion, managing teams and resources to ensure delivery standards meet client expectations
• Demonstrate understanding of client’s key objectives with the appropriate sector
• Monitor and review the performance and behaviour of all team members, including educating and influencing others, and take action to ensure compliance with the organisational policies and codes of conduct across the entire project
• Assure compliance with contracts in terms of project delivery parameters and scope of service
• Analyse and compile a range of complex data and documents, using knowledge to review and assess analysis and provide recommendations to contribute to project decision‑making
• Use own knowledge and experience of industry best practice to support the development of current cost and commercial management systems and processes
• Work to improve services and drive innovation to increase team contribution to project delivery
• Manage relationships with customers in order to identify opportunities to improve the cost management offering and deliver customer satisfaction
• Act as a key technical resource within the field of cost‑commercial management, providing technical advice and solutions to internal colleagues to support successful project delivery across a range of projects
• Build valued relationships with senior clients and stakeholders in order to ensure client satisfaction, develop the cost management service and create new business opportunities

Qualifications & Experience

• MRICS Chartered Quantity Surveyor
• Passionate about driving innovation in service and delivering exceptional results
• Proven experience working on large complex construction projects within Education or a related field
• Ability to lead projects from inception to completion
• Strong cost estimating experience and rate/benchmark knowledge
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to build good client relationships
• Experience coaching and mentoring junior colleagues
• Good leadership skills
• Experience with Digital Cost Management and CostX, 5D BIM and benchmarking tools

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.