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 are seeking a proactive, forward-thinking Digital Cost Manager to join our innovative team. This role blends core cost management and quantity surveying responsibilities with modern digital practices to drive efficiency, data-driven decision making, and enhanced project delivery at scale. You will champion 5D BIM, analytics, low-code automation, and robust information management aligned to ISO 19650, while contributing to business change and continuous improvement using Lean principles.
Role accountabilities:
- Cost Management: Manage budgets, cost plans, estimates, and change control.
- Tendering & Procurement: Oversee tendering, bid evaluations, and contract administration.
- Measurement & Valuation (5D BIM): Deliver model-based quantification and valuation using tools like CostX/Navisworks; maintain cost libraries and benchmarking datasets.
- Data & Reporting: Build dashboards (Power BI), integrate cost/schedule/risk data; apply SQL/Python for data transformation and quality control.
- Information Management & Governance: Embed ISO 19650-compliant practices; ensure data governance, lineage, and cyber security.
- Digital Process Improvement: Map and optimise workflows using Lean/BPMN; deploy low-code apps (Power Apps/Automate) for automation.
- Planning & Risk Integration: Integrate cost with planning (4D/5D) and risk analysis; support sustainability and whole-life value.
- Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement: Provide governance, compliance, and stakeholder engagement across PMO and delivery teams.
Qualifications & Experience:
Essential
- Degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial/Construction Management, Cost Engineering, or related field, with 5+ years’ experience in QS/cost management across construction, infrastructure, energy, or engineering.
- NEC4 experience
- MRICS (or working towards)
- Proficiency in BIM and 5D tools, cost and commercial platforms, and collaboration systems.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication and data storytelling, adaptability, and proven ability to drive digital change.
- Curiosity, structured problem-solving, ownership, collaboration, resilience, and integrity in handling commercial and data ethics.
Desirable
- Advanced Excel and Power BI for modelling and visualisation; SQL/Python for data manipulation highly desirable; familiarity with APIs and data integration.
- Experience in process mapping and optimisation (Lean/BPMN), planning interfaces (P6/MS Project), earned value, and exposure to cost/schedule risk techniques.
- Training in one or more of: Lean Six Sigma (any level), ISO 19650 Practitioner, TOGAF, Data Science/Computer Science, Cyber Security, or Systems Engineering.
- Digital leadership in transformation, programming/scripting (Python, DAX/M, VBA), sustainability cost–carbon tools, and continuous learning mindset.
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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