Commercial Lead in Birmingham

Location: Birmingham

Salary: Hidden

Recruiter: Arcadis

Job Hours: Full-time

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

We are more than 36, 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 worlds most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

We partner with our clients across the globe to design thriving and connected cities and communities that enable opportunity for all and keep the world moving. Climate change, urbanization and digitization trends are requiring todays mobility projects and systems to address an evolving set of demands from the worlds growing population. We design connected, sustainable solutions that integrate existing infrastructure with new technologies, and optimize the mobility of people and goods.

Role description:

As part of our Cost Management team, youll be involved in a wide range of projects from global and high profile to small and impactful, ensuring theyre delivered on time and to budget. Your expertise in planning, estimating, budgeting and managing costs will drive growth and smarter working. Due to recent tender success, we have kick started a proactive recruitment campaign to seek the best talent to join our fantastic team. We are looking for an inclusive, dynamic & people focused commercial leader who has a passion for making a positive difference within and around our Birmingham communities. The successful applicant will act as commercial lead with some of our key infrastructure clients, overseeing multi-billion pounds of investment in and around the city of Birmingham.

In addition, this role will offer the opportunity to form part of our Birmingham management team, leading a fantastic and diverse team across a broad range of backgrounds, experience and perspectives. The successful candidate will be required to support in the growth and development of the team as well as working with our wider business development teams to support the ongoing growth and diversification of our accounts. Finally, we would love applicants who have ideas for how we can disrupt and transform the Cost & Commercial profession in future, particularly with respect to the use of digital technology, sustainability and social value

Role accountabilities:

Leading the overall commercial delivery and performance of the projects externally and internally, from inception through to completion and handover into Business As Usual

Liaising with the commercial and wider functions within Arcadis and our project partners to foster positive relationships and generating win-win commercial positions

Overseeing change control processes, through close interaction with the project teams

Overseeing contractual compliance, commercial excellence and commercial risk management

Qualifications & Experience:

Have experience providing commercial solutions to clients and creating win-win commercial positions; Note; we will consider individuals who are not from an infrastructure background and are keen for a new opportunity

Be a dynamic individual who enjoys finding and implementing solutions to resolving challenges and realising opoportunities

Have a passion and track record of bringing out the best from individuals and teams; we aspire to create an environment where our people bring their best, help out others and have fun along the journey