Cost Manager / Senior Cost Manager

Cost Manager/ Senior Cost Manager job, London, Birmingham or Manchester salary up to £50/65k plus package


Your new company

A leading international consultancy with over 70 years of integrated project and programme management expertise. With us, you'll be surrounded by the skills and support to develop in ways that work for you. You'll be trusted to play a vital role in the organisation while making a tangible difference to the world and our future

Join us on some of the most exciting and prestigious construction challenges around the globe. As part of a friendly, collaborative team, you'll be valued equally – and together, we'll deliver excellence for people and the environment. You'll also enjoy all the training and progression you need to take you through the glass ceiling.

We encourage our people to find a work-life balance that helps them thrive. So, ask us how our flexible and remote working policies can support your priorities. We hear and recognise all our people's different perspectives. Some of our recent pledges have been for Women's Equality and being a 'Disability Confident' and 'Inclusive Employer.

Our awesome transportation team make the biggest, most complex and ambitious infrastructure projects happen. Whether it’s forming the backbone of Britain’s transport network on High Speed 2, transforming how the railway works on East Coast Digital Programme, increasing our international connectivity on Heathrow Airport, or delivering safe and reliable journeys for National Highways and local government bodies, a career with us represents an opportunity to make a positive difference to the communities we serve and for future generations to come. And, we do all of this whilst working with fun and passion.

Your new role

Responsibilities:

• Lead a small team of Cost Managers within project delivery team, coordinating and aggregating the outputs and feeding into overall Programme.
• Maintain responsibility for the accuracy of cost data, including transposition into Cost systems and business reporting.
• Assure all Cost data that feeds into Cost reporting within the area, as well as all Cost data that feeds into Programme reporting.
• Act as main point of contact for all Cost reporting and Cost intelligence, working closely with the Head of Cost Management to maintain Cost Systems ensuring accurate reporting, benchmarking, and analysis of Clients infrastructure costs.
• Provide expert professional advice covering Clients infrastructure Costs to our client and wider business stakeholders (including, but not limited to, Procurement specialists, Cost / Contract Management personnel, Estimators and Project Controllers).
• Ensure continuous development and improvement of Clients policies, procedures, and resources for all Cost services.
• Work closely with the Finance, Commercial, Project Management teams and other Project Controls functions to ensure Cost is integrated with all other functions and aids in informing decisions; and Aid in the development of a benchmarking database and in the reporting process to provide timely and accurate advice to inform decision making.

Key Competencies and Underpinning Knowledge:

• Experience on significant Infrastructure projects ideally but not limited to the Rail Sector.
• Good working knowledge of financial systems.
• Understand the inter-relationship between time cost and commercial aspects of the project life cycle.
• Working knowledge of Primavera.
• Experience and knowledge of cost systems, such as SAP, Oracle CostOS and PRISM.
• Familiarity of the public sector policies, processes and procedures and associated political impacts. Commercial and quantity surveying skills, with full working knowledge of the construction industry, in particular NEC Form of Contracts and their commercial basis.
• Ability to develop and understand performance measurement of projects using Earned Value Management and similar techniques.
• Commercial and quantity surveying skills, with full working knowledge of the construction industry, NEC Form of Contracts, and their commercial basis.
• Ability to develop and understand performance measurement of projects using Earned Value Management (EVM) and similar techniques

What you'll need to succeed

• Membership of the RICS, ACostE, ICES or similar relevant professional association, and degree or equivalent experience or achieved NVQ Level 2 in Project Controls.
• Experience in high value, complex construction, or infrastructure project environments.
• Understanding of complex and diverging project data, with an ability to assimilate and convert into meaningful metrics and management reports.

What you'll get in return
Flexible working options available.

A salary up to £50/60k and a fantastic range of benefits, which you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.