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FULL_TIME
5-10

Associate / Senior Commercial Manager

1/6/2026

The Associate/Senior Cost Consultant will lead cost management on rail-related projects, ensuring effective resource utilization and client satisfaction. Responsibilities include managing project budgets, analyzing cost data, and developing team members.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

10,001+ employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
Arcadis is a leading global partner, delivering transformative projects with businesses, cities and industries. With 36,000 people active in more than 30 countries, we bring together the best minds from around the world to deliver intelligent products and solutions that address the challenges of climate, energy security and diversification, and livable cities. We take design, engineering, architecture and consultancy to the next level, advising clients at every step of every project. From strategy and planning through to implementation and delivery, we combine our human and digital intelligence to co-create environments that reflect our clients’ business and stakeholder needs. From creating a citywide sustainable legacy during and after the Paris Olympics to revolutionizing urban transit worldwide with metro systems from Sydney to Toronto, or securing clean drinking water for communities across more than 30 U.S. states, our world-changing solutions leave a positive and lasting impact. Our work has helped more than a third of the world's communities become more resilient, and hundreds of clients to advance their decarbonization and net-zero goals. Together, we are committed to solving today's greatest problems; creating a blueprint for a better future, designed to thrive. Arcadis. Improving quality of life.
About the Role

 

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/Senior Cost Consultant, you will lead the delivery of cost management on rail-related projects, including HS2. You will be responsible for utilizing resources effectively to meet project standards in cost, time, and quality, leveraging your substantial technical knowledge and experience. You will manage relationships with clients and stakeholders, ensuring satisfaction and identifying opportunities for service improvement.

Role accountabilities:

  • Leading, coaching, and developing team members to enhance cost management service delivery in the rail sector.
  • Creating project costings and budgets for rail projects, managing finances to achieve profit and budgetary targets.
  • Leading and managing cost management assignments, ensuring delivery standards meet client expectations.
  • Demonstrating understanding of client objectives within the rail sector, specifically regarding cost management.
  • Monitoring team performance and ensuring compliance with organizational policies related to cost control.
  • Assuring compliance with contracts concerning project delivery parameters and cost management.
  • Analyzing complex cost data and providing recommendations for project decision-making.
  • Supporting the development of current cost and commercial management systems tailored to rail projects.
  • Driving innovation in cost management to improve services and increase team contribution.
  • Building valued relationships with senior clients and stakeholders for client satisfaction and business opportunities in the rail sector.

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
  • Relevant professional qualification or chartered status.
  • CSCS card holder.
  • Relevant professional experience in delivering medium/large rail projects across an entire project lifecycle, including projects like HS2.
  • Extensive experience in cost and commercial management within the rail sector.
  • Proven leadership skills and ability to motivate others in cost management roles.

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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Key Skills
Cost ManagementProject ManagementClient Relationship ManagementTeam LeadershipBudgetingFinancial ManagementData AnalysisInnovationStakeholder EngagementCoachingComplianceRail Sector KnowledgeContract ManagementService ImprovementPerformance MonitoringTechnical Knowledge
Categories
EngineeringConstructionManagement & LeadershipEnvironmental & SustainabilityConsulting
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