Senior Cost Manager

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 diverse range of sectors.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Assume day-to-day delivery responsibility for projects and demonstrate the ability to take on tasks with minimal supervision.

• Strengthen our service delivery capability and promote knowledge capture, sharing and innovation.

• Prepare budget estimates, cost plans and client reports.

• Provide 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.

• 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.

• Undertake service delivery is 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.

• Filing of project correspondence in accordance with requirements.

• Support bid and tender preparation and business development.

• Develop our business; networking and developing client relationships.

• Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and continuous improvement.

• Administer change control processes for the services we provide.

• Provide advice on procurement and contracts.

• Prepare and evaluating tenders, contractor selection and contract documentation.

• Support the implementation of strategic initiatives at service and sector level.

• Assist in providing leadership to the staff, where required. Resolve conflicts of priorities and personalities relating to work with the appropriate Director or Associate.

• Assist in mentoring and coaching team members, ensuring that staff and new starters are developed to support the successful growth of the Practice and development of their career.
   

Knowledge & Skills Required:
 

Deliver results in a client facing role including:

• Confidently respond to a client request; as well as understanding when to escalate client issues to senior members of the team.

• Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery.

• Ability to show resilience and resourcefulness in the face of highly complex challenges.

• Commitment to outperforming client expectations.

• Lead stakeholder management.

• Deal diplomatically with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment, subject to change.

• Demonstrate flexibility in response to changing requirements and routines.

• Demonstrate a high degree of integrity.

• Show strong leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and manage teams including the supply chain.

• Starting to manage conflicting priorities and organise workloads in conjunction with the appropriate Director.

• Starting to prioritise and self-manage with ability to work in a high-pressure environment.
   

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Ideally degree qualified: construction, cost management, engineering, quantity surveying or other RICS accredited degree.

• MRICS / other equivalent qualification or experience.

• Some formal leadership development training.

• 5-10 years’ experience.

• Strong knowledge of construction industry technical matters.

• Good experience of industry standard forms of contract.

• Good pre and post contract technical cost management skills.

• Good core technical skills.

• Strong oral and written communication skills.

• Strong IT skills for the role including MS Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint.

• Developing interpersonal skills with both clients and staff. Good interpersonal skills with both client and staff

• Good analytical skills, sound judgement and an aptitude for forward planning.

• Energetic and motivated with natural drive and an innovative flair, resourcefulness and ability to adapt to change.

• An ability to think clearly and make reasoned decisions, explaining the logic employed.

• 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.

Note for Recruitment Agencies:

We prefer to hire directly, and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release.