Cost Manager

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide support for day‑to‑day delivery responsibility for small to medium projects, and support larger projects/programmes of work while demonstrating the ability to take on tasks with minimal supervision.
• Support knowledge capture, sharing and innovation.
• Support the implementation of strategic initiatives at service and sector level.
• Prepare budget estimates, cost plans and client reports.
• Support risk and value management.
• Contract administration including preparation of valuations, forecasts, cost reports and attendance at project meetings.
• Preparation of bills of quantities, schedules of rates, or other methods of work evaluation.
• 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 and through performance management of personnel to ensure work is completed in a timely manner to a high‑quality standard.
• Undertake service delivery in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Practice, 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.
• Work to deadlines set by the Project Team Leader.
• File project correspondence in accordance with requirements.
• Support evaluation of tenders, contractor selection and contract documentation.
• Develop our business through networking and developing client relationships.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and continuous improvement.

Knowledge & Skills Required

• Deliver results in a client‑facing role including confidently responding to client requests and understanding when to escalate client issues to senior members of the team.
• Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery.
• Show resilience and resourcefulness in the face of highly complex challenges.
• Commit to outperforming client expectations.
• Support stakeholder management.
• Demonstrate a high degree of integrity.
• Handle a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment.
• Respond flexibly to changing requirements and routines.
• Show good leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and manage teams including the supply chain.
• Manage conflicting priorities and organise workloads in conjunction with the appropriate Director.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Ideally degree qualified in construction, cost management, engineering, quantity surveying or another RICS accredited degree.
• Working towards MRICS or another equivalent qualification or experience.
• Developed understanding of leadership techniques and ideally some formal leadership training.
• 4+ years of experience.
• Experience in the Real Estate sector is desirable.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters.
• Experience of industry standard forms of contract, typically JCT and NEC.
• Basic pre and post‑contract technical cost‑management skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Good IT skills for the role including MS Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Developing interpersonal skills with both client and staff.

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’s policy is to recruit, hire, train and promote team members and applicants for employment without regard to any 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.