Intermediate Cost Intelligence Manager in Cardiff

Cumming Group is an international project and cost management consultancy delivering innovative solutions in construction, real estate, and infrastructure. With a commitment to collaboration, transparency, and performance excellence, we support some of the world’s most respected clients across a diverse range of sectors.

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.
• Prepare cost and benchmark estimates.
• Prepare cost rates, cost models and engineering definitions.
• 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.
• Manage cost database maintenance and development.
• Develop costing tools.
• 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 levels.
• Undertake service delivery in accordance with business policies, 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.
• Ensure filing of project correspondence is maintained in accordance with requirements.
• Assist in mentoring and supporting team members, ensuring staff and new starters are developed to support business growth and career development.
• Administer change control processes for the services we provide.
• Populate and submit accurate timesheets with useful descriptions weekly.
• Support the delivery of work through proactive involvement where appropriate and through performance management of personnel to ensure work is completed in a timely manner to a high-quality standard.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Diplomatically deal with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment subject to change.
• Cope with demanding and changing timeframes.
• Strong team worker, able to contribute own thoughts and ideas.
• 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.
• Present complex information to a variety of audiences, including senior management.
• Self-learner and able to share knowledge verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrate a high degree of integrity.
• Prioritise and self-manage with ability to work in a high-pressure environment.
• Manage conflicting priorities and organise workloads in conjunction with team.
• Provide support to the junior team members.
• Deliver results in a client-facing role.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Ideally degree qualified in construction, cost management, engineering, quantity surveying or another RICS accredited degree.
• RICS/MRICS/CaSA or equivalent qualification or experience.
• Good core technical skills.
• Highly motivated, conscientious and inquisitive.
• Strong ability in handling and investigating data, identifying trends, patterns and data anomalies.
• Objective, evidence-based decision-making skills.
• Good interpersonal, team building and staff/client relationship skills.
• Good analytical skills, sound judgement and aptitude for forward planning.
• Energetic and motivated with natural drive and innovative flair, resourcefulness and adaptability.
• Clear thinking and reasoned decision-making, explaining logic employed.
• Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills.
• Strong knowledge of construction industry technical matters with around 3 years post-qualification experience.
• Good awareness of construction contracts and best practice within the industry.
• Strong IT skills including MS 365, Excel and process automation.
• Experience of cost estimating systems, project databases and measurement systems.
• Strong skills and knowledge to review and validate cost data.
• Awareness of management techniques and delivery of simple projects.

Cumming Group is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race (including nationality, national/ethnic origin, colour), marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender assignment, religion and belief. Cumming Group is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities through its personnel policies and practices. All such decisions are based on individual merit, qualifications and competence as they relate to the particular position, and on the promotion of the principle of equal employment opportunity.