Senior 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:

• Assume 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.
• Manager preparation of bespoke cost hierarchies, cost breakdowns and methods of measurements.
• Produce dashboard reports for external clients.
• Manage data capture, storage, analysis and reporting.
• Cost database management and maintenance.
• Costing tools development.
• Manage the 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.
• Ensure 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.
• Mentor and support team members, ensuring that staff and new starters are developed to support the successful growth of the business and development of their career.
• Ensure change control processes for the services we provide.
• Populate and submit accurate timesheets with useful descriptions weekly.
• Manage 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.
• Support the forecast of work through proactive management of the CI Programme.
• Provide leadership to the staff, where required.
• Resolve conflicts of priorities and personalities relating to work with the appropriate Associate or Director.
• Provide costed risk, Monte Carlo simulations and optimism bias assessments.
• Contribute to bid and tender preparation and business development.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Communicate effectively and able to negotiate confidently with all levels of internal and external stakeholders.
• Cope with demanding and changing timeframes.
• Excellent 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.
• Ability to 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 the appropriate Director.
• Lead a team.
• Able to deliver results in a client facing role.
• Create a close-knit team.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Preferably degree qualified: construction, cost management, engineering, quantity surveying or other RICS accredited degree.
• RICS/MRICS/CaSA or other equivalent qualification or experience.
• Excellent core technical skills.
• Highly motivated, conscientious and inquisitive.
• Excellent ability in handling and investigating data with an ability to identify trends, patterns and data anomalies and suggest possible next steps.
• Objective, evidence-based decision-making skills.
• Strong interpersonal and team building skills.
• Strong 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.
• Strong ability to think clearly and make reasoned decisions, explaining the logic employed.
• Excellent oral and written communication and developing presentation skills.
• Excellent knowledge of construction industry technical matters with circa 5 years plus post qualification experience.
• Good awareness of construction contracts and best practice within the industry.
• Advanced IT skills including MS 365 with a good understanding of Excel and automating processes.
• Good awareness and experience of cost estimating systems, project databases and measurement systems.
• Meticulous in reviewing and validating cost data, ensuring accuracy and identifying discrepancies to maintain data integrity.
• Experience of managing people and delivering multiple or complex 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 (includes nationality, national/ethnic origin, colour), marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender assignment, religion and belief.