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.
- Lead the commercial management of assigned projects, overseeing cost plans, forecasting, cash flow analysis, and reporting throughout the project lifecycle.
- Prepare detailed cost estimates, feasibility studies, and benchmarking analyses for life sciences, laboratory, and specialist technical facilities.
- Manage tender processes, evaluate contractor submissions, and support commercial negotiations to secure best value outcomes.
- Administer valuations, payment applications, variations, and change control processes, ensuring effective cost management at every stage.
- Maintain project risk registers and commercial reporting, providing proactive advice to clients and project teams.
- Produce clear and accurate commercial reports, cost forecasts, and financial updates to support informed decision making.
- Collaborate with design and delivery teams to identify value engineering opportunities and mitigate commercial risks.
- Promote the use of digital cost management tools, including CostX and 5D BIM, to improve efficiency, accuracy, and benchmarking capability.
- Support and mentor junior team members, sharing best practice and contributing to the continuous improvement of team processes.
- Degree-qualified Quantity Surveyor with Chartered status (MRICS) preferred, or actively working towards professional qualification.
- Proven Quantity Surveying or Cost Management experience within laboratory, research, life sciences, or highly serviced (MEP-intensive) environments.
- Strong experience in cost planning, estimating, procurement, contract administration, and financial reporting.
- Demonstrable commercial acumen, including managing project variations, cost risks, and budget performance.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present commercial information clearly to clients and contractors.
- Experience using digital cost management platforms such as CostX, 5D BIM, or similar tools is advantageous.
- Willingness to travel and provide support across Oxford, Cambridge, London, and other locations as required.
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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Skills Required
- Degree-qualified Quantity Surveyor
- Chartered status such as MRICS, or actively working toward professional qualification
- Proven Quantity Surveying or Cost Management experience in laboratory, research, life sciences, or highly serviced MEP-intensive environments
- Experience in cost planning, estimating, procurement, contract administration, and financial reporting
- Commercial acumen in managing project variations, cost risks, and budget performance
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience with CostX, 5D BIM, or similar digital cost management tools
- Willingness to travel and support projects across Oxford, Cambridge, London, and other locations
Arcadis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Arcadis and has not been reviewed or approved by Arcadis.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is frequently described as good, with strong medical benefits cited in multiple regions. Feedback suggests healthcare is a relative bright spot within the total rewards package.
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Retirement Support — 401(k) and pension offerings are often called out positively, with contributions viewed as solid. Feedback suggests retirement benefits enhance the overall package even when salary sentiment is mixed.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible working arrangements, hybrid options, and wellbeing support (such as EAP and benefits platforms) are commonly highlighted. Feedback suggests the flexibility of the package adds meaningful value beyond base pay.
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What We Do
Arcadis is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, digital and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 architects, data analysts, designers, engineers, project planners, water management and sustainability experts, all driven by our passion for improving quality of life. We exist to find solutions to today’s most pressing challenges, from the impact of climate change to increasing urbanization and digital transformation – all with the goal of improving quality of life for people around the world. You can see this in the work we do for our clients, the opportunities we create for our people, and in our efforts to enhance the communities in which we live and work. We bring together world-class resources and the latest innovative technologies to help define the cities and experiences of tomorrow. Arcadis. Improving quality of life
