Associate Director Cost and Commercial Assurance

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 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:
The Cost and Commercial Assurance service line requires individuals to be able to deliver potentially contentious results and findings in a manner that supports and assists clients. As an Associate Consultant you will need to be able to lead your team by example, be flexible and able to adapt to different client requirements at short notice and happy to travel both throughout the UK and abroad in the pursuit of successful delivery.

Cost and Commercial Assurance is a leading edge, innovative service line, providing high value and insightful outcomes to major clients throughout Arcadis’ Infrastructure and Environment sectors. The service is a commercially driven, financially focussed provider of confidence, value for money and process improvement solutions across multi-million pound capital investment contracts.

The CCA team prides our strong team ethic and knowledge-sharing approach to ensure that our service remains at the cutting edge of what Arcadis is able to offer our client base. There is currently a fantastic opportunity for a successful individual to contribute to the development and growth of our Cost and Commercial Assurance services across multiple market sectors, both domestically and internationally. 

The successful individual will be naturally inquisitive, ambitious, and motivated to progress their career quickly. A natural eye for detail is essential, but with an ability to put commercial context around the detail to enable our clients to make wider, impactful business decisions. The successful individual should remain output focussed throughout the duration of commissions and able to empathise with our clients’ points of view. 

Role accountabilities:
With a successful and expanding service line in place, the CCA team are looking for an individual to work to continue this journey.  The successful individual will ideally have experience within a consulting environment, a passion for enhancing the delivery of projects and programmes, as well as the ambition to rapidly take on responsibility and help develop the service line.   This is a unique opportunity to lead this established team on the delivery of commissions on large infrastructure programmes. 

The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading a team and utilising resources to deliver projects within cost, time and quality standards, and will have significant technical knowledge and experience in their field.

Typical tasks and activities include: 

• Lead, coach and develop the skills and capabilities of team members in order to share knowledge, increase team skill levels and continually improve the standard of service delivery.
• Monitor and review the performance and behaviour of all team members, including educating and influencing others, and take action to ensure compliance with our organisational policies and codes of conduct 
• Use own knowledge and experience of industry best practice to support the development of the existing Arcadis Cost Assurance systems and processes.
• Lead and manage multiple cost assurance assignments from inception to completion, managing teams and resources to ensure delivery standards meet client expectations.
• Create project costings and budgets from clear objectives.
• Managing finances across multiple projects in order to ensure profit and budgetary targets are met and best value outcomes are achieved for Arcadis and our clients
• Assure compliance with contracts in terms of project delivery parameters and scope of service.
• Demonstrable understanding of multiple infrastructure related market sectors.
• Manage relationships with clients in order to identify future opportunities
• Actively seek new client and workstream generation.
• Internal and external marketing/development of the CCA service line.
• Management of key stakeholders and their expectations through regular communications.
• Effective presentation of final report outputs and recommendations to clients and contractors. 
• Detailed analysis of cost data against contractual/commercial principles.
• Appraisal of cost/commercial management systems and processes. 
• Travelling to different sites/locations nationally and internationally.
   

Qualifications & Experience:

• Relevant professional experience of delivering medium to large projects across multiple market sectors.
• Relevant consultancy and advisory experience.
• Extensive knowledge and competence in the use of construction contracts, preferably NEC3 / NEC4 Option C (Target Cost).
• Knowledge of data modelling, data cleansing, and data enrichment techniques 
• Demonstrable experience with developing and generating new clients and workstreams. 
• Experience of managing people, including the ability to motivate others on complex programmes.
• Experience in creating, developing and managing client relationships at all levels, including the capability to become a trusted advisor.
• Experience of identifying and assessing risks in project environments. 
• Ability to maintain high standards of work and meet deadlines whilst working under pressure. 
• The ability to effectively communicate with a range of individuals at varying levels of seniority. 
• The ability to grasp high level concepts and is comfortable with less structured tasks.
• The ability to demonstrate ‘output thinking’ from the outset.

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.

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