Intermediate Cost Manager

The Cost Manager provides essential support to ensure the financial viability of a construction process within client projects. A Cost Manager should primarily work independently through monitoring expenditures and identifying cost savings in collaboration with project teams, contractors and clients alongside project objectives. At this level, cost managers are expected to take a level of responsibility to ensure budgets are maintained whilst meeting quality standards and client expectations.

Responsibilities

• Organisational Skills: The ability to oversee multiple projects and organise own time and deadlines to meet differing client needs.
• Accuracy and Due Diligence: The ability to provide accurate measurement and cost planning, ensuring that all works are presented professionally. This role will also support the checking work of Assistants.
• Effective Communication: An ability to communicate clearly and effectively across all levels, with clients and external stakeholders, including leading meetings when required.
• Team Work and Collaboration: Building healthy team and client relationships to foster a positive and cooperative work environment.
• Knowledge Development: To maintain and establish knowledge on industry trends, regulations and best practice.
• Time Management: The ability to organise own time to meet client deadlines and complete work tasks to a high standard.

Qualifications

• Education: Degree or Equivalent Experience in Cost/Quantity Consultancy.
• Professional: Working towards or hold MRICS/NECReg or equivalent.
• Software/IT Tools: Driving License: Yes.
• Experience: It is essential anybody coming into this role has experience working within the construction industry as a cost manager or similar. Typically, we would look for somebody with a minimum of 3-4 years relevant experience working towards or having achieved professional status. They should ideally have knowledge of JCT and NEC contract administration and be confident in client facing roles.

What We’re Looking For

• Leading on site meetings and attending site for valuation and client account purposes.
• Conducting valuations on sites and using digital measurement tools to quantify works and use for cost plans and contractor submissions.
• Preparation of cost reports through developing project budgets and taking into account client budgetary constraints.
• Considering client needs and the provision of budget constraints through assessing risks, solutions and mitigating risks in relation to budget preparation.
• Managing, analysing and monitoring project costs and variations ensuring changes are costed, approved and incorporated into financial controls.
• Preparing pre-contract documentation to include cost planning, procurement, tendering and value engineering advice.
• Preparing post-contract documentation and issuing JCT and NEC contract notices alongside practices.
• Maintain project documentation and files and utilising Assistants in this practice.
• Project Management to ensure that projects are delivered on time with scope and to budget.
• Attending conferences and networking events as and when required.
• Mentoring and training of Assistant Cost Managers.
• To maintain and establish knowledge on industry trends, regulations and best practice.

Our Values

• Stronger Together: Leading and working collaboratively as part of a team and building positive working relationships.
• Client Focused: ‘Listen to Clients. Learn. Make it Happen’. Demonstrating that you are continuously enhancing client experience.
• Leadership: ‘Be the Difference’. Encouraging, training, and supporting more junior members of your team.
• Think Solutions. Not Problems: Demonstrating and communicating solutions and smarter ways to approach a piece of work.
• Accountability: ‘Do What’s Right. Not What’s Easy’. Always following through on commitments and tasks whether set by your team or by clients.

ROLE CHALLENGES

The Cost Manager should aim to work with minimum assistance and independently. They should be developing a balance between ensuring guidance is requested when needed without expecting the same level of supervision as the Assistant Cost Manager. Communication and organisational skills are crucial at this level and the aim for any Cost Manager is to develop a level of independence whilst continuing to build their knowledge of the administration of construction contracts from inception to completion.

AIM OF ROLE

Working independently with minimal assistance leading on client projects. Hold or achieve APC qualification.

Benefits:

• Hybrid Working
• Private Vitality Healthcare for you and your family
• 27 Days Holiday plus Bank Holidays (plus buy and sell holiday)
• 4 x Death in Service
• Professional Membership Fees Paid
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay
• Contractual Sick Pay
• Regular Funded Social Events
• RICS/APC Professional Accreditation Support