Project Cost Consultant / Commercial Manager

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: As a Project Cost Consultant, you will contribute to the delivery of commercial management services for major infrastructure projects, including mobility and rail initiatives. You will apply your specialized expertise and experience to manage project standards in cost, time, and quality. Key to your role is building strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, ensuring satisfaction and identifying opportunities to deliver value. Role Accountabilities: * Support the delivery of cost and commercial management services across major infrastructure projects. * Develop robust cost estimates, budgets and forecasting models to help projects achieve their financial objectives. * Provide commercial insight throughout the project lifecycle, supporting informed decision-making and value optimisation. * Ensure compliance with contractual obligations, particularly under NEC contracts. * Analyse complex project and financial data, identifying risks, opportunities and actionable recommendations. * Contribute to the continuous improvement of commercial processes, systems and ways of working. * Build strong relationships with clients, stakeholders and project teams, becoming a trusted advisor and valued partner. * Support the successful delivery of projects to agreed cost, programme and quality objectives. Qualifications & Experience: * Degree-qualified in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction Management or a related discipline. * Professionally qualified or working towards chartered status (MRICS, MCICES or equivalent). * Experience delivering cost and commercial management services within infrastructure projects. * Exposure to major rail, transportation or mobility programmes. * Strong understanding and practical application of NEC contracts. * Experience across both pre-contract and post-contract commercial management activities. * Excellent analytical, financial, negotiation and stakeholder management skills. * A proactive, collaborative approach with a passion for delivering value for clients. 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. #LI-SW1