Senior Quantity Surveyor - Hotels

**This role is open to full-time or part-time candidates**

Arcadis is the leading global natural and built asset design consultancy firm. Arcadis differentiates through its talented and passionate people and its unique combination of capabilities covering the whole asset life cycle.

Clients have recognised that we focus on combining specific sector knowledge, innovative service delivery and the use of data, analytics and benchmarking which sets us apart from our competition. We are proud that clients keep choosing us to work on their most prestigious projects.

Arcadis has an experienced team of hotel sector specialists, with a long history of creating value for clients as they acquire, develop, operate and dispose of hotels throughout the UK. We have flexible and agile national coverage, combining regional knowhow, national best practice and global innovation.

To support our continued success in this sector, we are seeking motivated, talented individuals with experience in hotel project delivery to join our growing team.

Overview of Role:

• Working as part of and leading a team alongside Level 9 and above team members in the Cost & Commercial Management Career family to manage and deliver projects
• Liaising with external contractors and consultants
• Reporting to clients and stakeholders
• Will manage the delivery of cost management in small/medium hotel developments or significant components of larger cost management assignments
• Responsible for delivering their scope of work in line with various controls, and will have significant technical knowledge and experience in their field

Key Accountabilities:

• Assist in the coaching and development of other team members in order to share knowledge, increase team skill level and improve the standard of service delivery
• Work within established financial systems and budgets to produce reports and forecasts and track budgets, overseeing costing and variances in order to manage and control cost variables
• Deliver a number of small to medium cost projects and assignments or significant components of larger assignments, ensuring appropriate use of resources and budgets to deliver the required scope of work within set deadlines
• Provide advice to colleagues on risk management, compliance and associated behaviours, to ensure adherence to Arcadis' risk and compliance processes
• Present any project risks or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted
• Analyse and review a range of data and documents to collate key themes and trends, using this analysis in conjunction with own knowledge to provide advice and make recommendations to support cost and commercial management decision-making
• Use own knowledge and experience combined with research of industry best practice to analyse existing processes and policies
• Share knowledge and provide insightful recommendations to assist service improvement and innovation
• Interact effectively and proactively across the organisation, seeking to develop ways to support collaboration with the cost management function, and applying technical knowledge to ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet cost expectations
• Provide specialist technical advice to senior management on issues relating to cost/commercial management, providing solutions and actively sharing knowledge in order to support successful delivery
• Manage relationships and collaborate with clients and external stakeholders, in order to ensure client satisfaction and create new business opportunities
• Demonstrable understanding of client's key objectives within the appropriate sector
• Dimensions of the job
• Possess the skills and experience to actively support the internal team and manage more junior staff on technically complex projects/programme of works typically ranging between GBP5m and GBP40m

What You have to Offer:

• MRICS or working towards chartership
• Degree qualified in quantity surveying or other relevant business discipline.
• Experience of delivering cost/commercial management services in the hotel sector
• Experience of coaching and mentoring more junior colleagues and emerging leadership skills
• Experience of working closely with external stakeholders to build client relationships
• Experience in managing business relationships at middle-management level
• Capable of taking a project through from inception to completion

Why Arcadis:

Arcadis is the leading global natural and built asset design and consultancy firm working in partnership with our clients to deliver exceptional and sustainable outcomes through the application of design, consultancy, engineering, project and management services.

Arcadis differentiates through its talented and passionate people and its unique combination of capabilities covering the whole asset life cycle, its deep market sector insights and its ability to integrate health & safety and sustainability into the design and delivery of solutions across the globe.

We are 27,000 people that generate ???3.4 billion in revenues. We support UN-Habitat with knowledge and expertise to improve the quality of life in rapidly growing cities around the world. Please visit: .

Arcadis UK now incorporates the Hyder and EC Harris brands.

What We Offer:

We offer a dynamic challenging job with international focus in a pleasant working climate, attention to education and a competitive remuneration package reflecting the seniority of the role. You will have a great deal of responsibility with endless opportunity for impact and freedom for initiatives. Given the international spread of the business a certain level of flexibility in working hours is important.

We offer a fantastic working environment where you own your destiny and will be encouraged to forge a successful career. In addition, we offer some excellent benefits, such as: