Graduate Cost Intelligence Manager in Cardiff

Cumming Group is an international project and cost management consultancy delivering innovative solutions in construction, real estate, and infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide support for day-to-day delivery responsibility for small to medium projects, support larger projects/programmes of work and demonstrate the ability to take on tasks with minimal supervision.
• Support delivery capability and promote knowledge capture, sharing and innovation.
• Prepare budget estimates, cost plans and cost reports.
• Support cost assurance services through data analysis, data cleansing, estimating and benchmarking.
• Preparation of cost and benchmark estimates.
• Support the preparation of bespoke cost hierarchies, cost breakdowns and methods of measurement.
• Maintain dashboard reports for external clients.
• Provide input and assistance for data capture, storage, analysis and reporting.
• Support cost database management and maintenance.
• Support costing tools development and management.
• Support and maintain internal cost intelligence database systems.
• Support the maintenance of the index register.
• Deliver all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner to a high standard of quality.
• Support the delivery of work through proactive involvement where appropriate.
• 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.
• Populate and submit accurate timesheets with useful descriptions weekly.

Key Skills & Knowledge

• Dealing with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment.
• 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.

Preferred Education & 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.
• Developing skills in handling and investigating data.
• Developing objective, evidence‑based decision‑making skills.
• Developing interpersonal and team building skills.
• Good interpersonal skills with staff.
• Good analytical skills, sound judgement and aptitude for forward planning.
• Energetic and motivated with a natural drive and innovative flair, resourcefulness and ability to adapt to change.
• 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 year plus post‑qualification experience.
• An awareness of construction contracts and best practice within the industry.
• Good IT skills including MS 365.
• Developing an awareness of cost estimating systems, project databases and measurement systems.
• Developing the skills & knowledge to enable review and validation of cost data.

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 (1) individual merit, qualifications, and competence as they relate to the particular position, and (2) promotion of the principle of equal employment opportunity.