Assistant PPM Consultant (Project Controls Associate Architectural)

Job description

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. **Role description:** The Project Controls Associate - Architectural role is part of the Project Controls team within the Centre of Excellence (COE) team and supports a global service delivery model, working flexible hours to contribute to a variety of international projects. The Associate is responsible for supporting the preparation, analysis, and reporting of capital management deliverables, ensuring alignment with project requirements, regional codes, and global standards. The position also upholds quality assurance and promotes process standardization and efficiency across project controls functions. **Role accountabilities:** - **Integrated Project Controls & Stage Gates:** Collaborate with Project Controls team members to align Capital Management deliverables and timelines while ensuring strict adherence to the policies and procedures of each Stage Gate process. - **Cross-Functional Strategy Support:** Support the Project Controls Manager and COE team in collaborating with Finance, Global Supplier Services, and Risk teams to drive procurement strategies, P&L management, and risk evaluations. - **Technical Deliverable Management:** Assist in preparing critical architectural project deliverables—including cost estimates, contracts, and change order assessments—ensuring compliance with regional codes and independent cost verification. - **Commercial Gap Analysis:** Review program requirements and design information (RIBA stages) against approved Business Cases to prepare commercial "gap reports" for Capital Management teams. - **Strategic Capital Planning:** Partner with Real Estate Strategy teams to deliver accurate and timely data for quarterly and annual capital planning exercises, leveraging insights into industry trends and commodity indices. - **Process Optimization & Standardization:** Contribute to global process standardization initiatives and the implementation of COE tools and templates to enhance governance, commercial efficiency, and quality assurance. - **Operational Excellence & Performance:** Provide regular performance updates to leadership, proactively escalate operational challenges, and participate in continuous improvement programs to enhance team effectiveness and innovation. **Qualifications & Experience:** - **Bachelor’s degree** in **Construction**, **Engineering**, **Quantity Surveying**. - 5 to 6 years of experience in delivering cost management, quantity surveying services for **Real Estate projects** (**Office fit-outs**, **Investment Banking** and **Financial Institution** experience preferable), - Good understanding of **pre-contract** (quantification & market analysis supporting cost planning, benchmarking, design validation, risk management) and **post-contract** (rate analysis & drawings measurements supporting change control management, cost reporting, final accounts) stages of Real Estate projects. - Experience working in a **global organization** or **COE** or **PMO**(prior experience of working on Owner’s side is preferable). - Awareness about **construction practices**, **trends** and **cost indices**. - Experience of working with stakeholders and teams spread across 2-3 regions. 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 equality and inclusion is at the forefront of all our activities. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity employer; women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, caste, creed, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, and gender identity. #LI-IP1