Cost Intelligence Manager in Cardiff

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day delivery support for projects and demonstrate the ability to take on tasks without supervision.
• Strengthen our service delivery capability and promote knowledge capture, sharing and innovation.
• Prepare budget estimates, cost plans, cost reports and client reports.
• Provide cost assurance services through data analysis, data cleansing, estimating and benchmarking.
• Preparation of cost and benchmark estimates.
• Preparation of cost rates, cost models and engineering definitions.
• Support the preparation of bespoke cost hierarchies, cost break downs and methods of measurements.
• Maintain dashboard reports for external clients.
• Provide input and assistance for data capture, storage, analysis and reporting.
• Cost database management and maintenance.
• Costing tools development.
• Support and maintain internal cost intelligence database systems.
• Monitor industry and economic cost trends and maintain index register.
• Deliver all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner to a high standard of quality.
• Support the implementation of strategic initiatives at service and sector level.
• Undertake service delivery in accordance with the policies and procedures of the business, particularly Health and Safety and Quality Assurance.
• Provide services in compliance with the client's corporate governance procedures where applicable.
• Achieve all objectives as required by the annual performance review process.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and continuous improvement.
• Work to deadlines set by the Project Team Leader.
• Ensuring filing of project correspondence is maintained in accordance with requirements.
• Assist in mentoring and supporting team members, ensuring that staff and new starters are developed to support the successful growth of the business and development of their career.
• Administer change control processes for the services we provide.
• Populate and submit accurate timesheets with useful descriptions weekly.

Knowledge & Skills Required

• Can deal diplomatically with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment, subject to change.
• Cope with demanding and changing timeframes.
• Good team worker able to contribute own thoughts and ideas.
• Able to work independently and provide progress updates.
• Dependable in high pressure situations.
• Passionate about adding value to cost intelligence services.
• Comfortable working with multiple sources of data and information.
• Driven to continuously improve and provide innovative solutions.
• Able to present information in a logical and intuitive format.
• Self-learner and able to share knowledge verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrate a high degree of integrity.
• Starting to prioritise and self-manage with ability to work in a high-pressure environment.
• Starting to manage conflicting priorities and organise workloads in conjunction with team.
• Provide support to the junior team members.
• Able to deliver results in a client facing role.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Ideally degree qualified: construction, cost management, engineering, quantity surveying or other RICS accredited degree.
• Working towards relevant qualification or experience.
• Good core technical skills.
• Highly motivated, conscientious and inquisitive.
• Good ability in handling and investigating data with an ability to identify trends, patterns and data anomalies.
• Objective, evidence-based decision-making skills.
• Developing interpersonal and team building skills.
• Good interpersonal skills with staff and developing interpersonal skills with clients.
• Good analytical skills, sound judgement and aptitude for forward planning.
• Energetic and motivated with natural drive and an innovative flair, resourcefulness and ability to adapt to change.
• An ability to think clearly and make reasoned decisions, explaining the logic employed.
• Good oral and written communication and developing presentation skills.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters with circa 1 years plus post qualification experience.
• An awareness of construction contracts and best practice within the industry.
• Good IT skills including MS 365 with a good understanding of Excel and automating processes.
• Awareness and experience of cost estimating systems, project databases and measurement systems.
• Good skills & knowledge to enable review and validation of cost data.

All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race (includes nationality, national / ethnic origins, colour), marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender reassignment, religion and belief. Cumming Group is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities through its personnel policies and practices. It is Cumming Group’s policy to recruit, hire, train and promote Team Members and applicants for employment without regard to age, sex, race (including colour, nationality, ethnicity or national origin), religion or belief, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, disability, being married or in a civil partnership, being pregnant or on maternity leave or any other protected characteristic under UK and European law. All such decisions are based on individual merit, qualifications, and competence as they relate to the particular position, and promotion of the principle of equal employment opportunity.