Cost Consultant Associate Director

4 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Currie & Brown Full time

About the Role

Currie & Brown is a leading international physical asset management and construction consultancy, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation, and reputation with a genuine global office network.

Our people, from the first-day apprentice to senior management, make our business what it is today. Everybody in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced they are, plays their own unique part in our success and has fun along the way.

The Role – What We're Looking For

We are currently looking for a senior cost management professional to join our Manchester office. The successful candidate will maintain a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation, and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider working across a range of projects such as large commercial new builds for blue-chip clients, private residential, towers, and national government frameworks, etc.

Your Key Responsibilities

  • Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to our clients
  • Participating in bid-winning, including drafting proposals and attending key industry events
  • Developing and expanding the existing client base across the sector
  • Developing and improving the performance of the team; formulating and implementing a local and national growth plan in consultation with other directors
  • Helping to direct staff within the team on timely billings and cash collection to improve lock-up
  • Supporting the office lead director and operations director in the annual budget process, providing monthly financial forecasts and periodic stress testing of projects
  • Working collaboratively with the senior management team members to share best practice, service delivery, knowledge, and resources
  • Undertaking responsibility for personal and industry compliance
  • Providing support on regular audits and peer reviews of projects that are undertaken
  • Undertaking responsibility for compliance with the company's health and safety policy and other relevant policies
  • Delivering projects, commissions, and professional assignments
  • Assuming a leading role in setting objectives and priorities, working as a proactive team player
  • Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for the successful completion of projects; liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control
  • Supervising a young team of graduates and recently chartered cost consultants
  • Undertaking commercial management services with limited supervision
  • Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
  • Providing support to the team leader/service leaders in cost management of projects
  • Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating, and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships

About You

About Us

Why Choose Currie & Brown?

Unlike some businesses, we prioritize for the long term and honor our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people's futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage – providing advice, support, and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.

We don't offer just a job; we offer a career with clear, structured routes to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.

We are an international industry leader – working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the world's most prestigious projects and for some of the world's top clients.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity, and inclusion should be taken seriously. Diverse people, backgrounds, and experiences develop the most innovative ideas, they are essential to our success, that is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.

With the backing of our parent company, we are a truly independent business. Our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions, as well as work directly with some of the world's brightest partner brands in our industry through Dar Group.

We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions, which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.



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