Quantity Surveyor/Manager in Slough

Are you an experienced Senior Cost Manager looking for your next big career move? Are you located in the London region? Do you have experience within the infrastructure sector? Do you want to join a well-established team and make a difference in both the business and the whole of the UK infrastructure? If this sounds like what you're looking for then this is your chance!

A confident and ambitious Senior Cost Manager is required to join a highly successful team in London. With experience within the infrastructure sector, you will have the opportunity to work on a diverse and exciting range of projects. This is a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Cost Manager to make an impact working in a growing, dynamic, and sociable team. You will be rewarded with a competitive remuneration package, breadth of development and experience opportunities with the necessary support to take your career to the next level.

REQUIREMENTS OF THE SUCCESSFUL SENIOR COST MANAGER

• Degree Educated: Construction or Economics related degrees, e.g.: Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Economics.
• Experience in Commercial roles and function.
• Has excellent numerical analysis and mathematical capabilities.
• Has experience in reporting succinctly and comprehensively to all stakeholder's levels.
• Can demonstrate a high attention to detail whilst working effectively with large volumes of data.
• Experienced in validating data quality, identifying trends and optimising data flows/processes.
• Good working knowledge of Estimating systems (at least one: PRISM-CostOS, CostX, CCS).
• Experienced in creating dashboards, visual tools / outputs for data analysis exercises.
• Advanced MS Excel user (VBA and Power BI working knowledge desirable).

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SUCCESSFUL SENIOR COST MANAGER

• Lead the production and review of cost estimates to inform budgets for Infrastructure projects.
• Lead the preparation of cost analysis and benchmarking reports to support value for money, identifying trends, defining and cost drivers.
• Lead the development of tools to enable the integration of data and dashboards/outputs to represent unit cost analyses.
• Prepare cost estimates using a range of different techniques from first principles to reference class forecasting.
• Analyse project scope information - liaison with project development and delivery teams required to ensure project requirements are accurately captured.
• Quantify the works in line with relevant methods of measurement.
• Price measured items according to the most relevant and appropriate technique.
• Fully identify all relevant budget costs (construction, employer, risk and uncertainty).
• Undertake reviews, checks and assurance of existing estimates to ensure compliance with adequate standards and guidance.
• Develop market testing exercises to inform prices of specific products and industry 'typical' benchmarks.
• Benchmarking and cost modelling.
• Update, validate and develop cost models and cost modelling techniques to enable the cost analysis of historical, recent, and new projects.
• Develop continuous methodologies to monitor and boost progress of data capture and data quality.
• Provide strategic thinking in support of continuous development.
• Provide ownership of contents with challenge and interpretation.

BENEFITS FOR THE SUCCESSFUL SENIOR COST MANAGER

• Amazing structure and approach to training and progression.
• Very competitive salary.
• Fantastic location in central London.

Aldwych Consulting values diversity and promotes equality. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.