Senior Cost Manager

2 weeks ago

London Area, United Kingdom Maxim Recruitment Limited Full time

A fantastic Senior Cost Manager job vacancy for ambitious Cost Managers and Senior Cost Managers / Quantity Surveyors, with infrastructure / civil engineering consultancy experience to be based in London. This job offers fantastic new opportunities to work for a premium international cost and contracts consultancy on major civil engineering and infrastructure projects being constructed in London and around the UK.

Project Details

Current live projects include aviation and airports, major new railway construction projects, water and water frameworks, major road projects, ongoing highway frameworks, and major bridge construction projects.

Senior Cost Manager jobs are available within several of the dedicated infrastructure teams within the contract and cost management division.

This Senior Cost Manager job offers the opportunity to work across a variety of standalone projects and long term ongoing frameworks encompassing nearly all aspects of UK infrastructure construction and renewal work.

A brief indicative sample of recent, current and future infrastructure projects include:

  • High Speed 2 / HS2
  • Other rail upgrade projects
  • Major London aviation expansion and renewal projects
  • Ongoing water framework projects and AMP 8 water framework partner work
  • Major new infrastructure crossing the Thames in London
  • A variety of one-off major road and highway projects as well as confirmed highway frameworks

Responsibilities and Duties

  • To deploy your client-facing skills and leadership skills to establish friendly, professional and appropriate relationships with clients, colleagues and other parties involved in projects and programmes being supported
  • Administer a variety of contracts and contract types, including NEC, in accordance with project objectives and policies.
  • Provide accurate project cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting throughout the project lifecycle to completion in line with budget.
  • Pro-actively monitor and manage cost variance and contract cash flow, ensuring that applications are made correctly and in a timely manner.
  • Collaborate with client and contractor teams to manage the delivery of project deliverables, KPIs, and objectives, including programme performance, cost control, and value engineering.
  • Manage contract change effectively, ensuring that projects remain within governance and adopt best practice
  • Drive improvements in the accuracy of forecasts and budgets
  • Proactively provide sound commercial knowledge and support to all stakeholders
  • Supervise the progress of final accounts during negotiation and ensure final agreement and settlement
  • Manage commissions management as required
  • Manage junior Cost Managers in the team and take a leading role in reporting both to clients and internally

Desired Skills and Experience

It is understood that applicants may not have all the required experience in all the areas listed below, and training can be provided in some areas. Assistance with APC is offered and there is an established internal training scheme that offers structured assistance and a very high pass rate.

It is essential to be able to demonstrate excellent communication and client facing skills gained and demonstrated to have been effective in your previous Cost Manager or Senior Cost Manager roles undertaken.

It is expected that suitable Senior Cost Managers will have had exposure to and experience of most of the duties listed below.

  • Experience of undertaking Contract Management duties, ideally under NEC3 form of contract
  • Demonstrable change management experience
  • Demonstrable Cost Management experience
  • Demonstrable Change control experience
  • Demonstrable Valuation experience
  • Procurement experience
  • Estimating experience
  • Pricing experience
  • Cost reporting experience
  • Experience of undertaking collaborative working
  • Experience of managing junior Cost Managers is desirable
  • Commission / project management experience is desirable
  • This role would particularly suit candidates that have previously worked for a "top 10" cost consultancy, either on civil engineering infrastructure projects or large scale building construction projects
  • Candidates with high quality and high value contracting experience with a leading UK or international civil engineering contractor are also invited to apply

Qualifications/Educational Requirements

  • A degree in Quantity Surveying, cost management or commercial management or equivalent is desired
  • MRICS, MInstCES, HKIS, CIQS or equivalent recognised Chartership within Quantity Surveying, Cost Management, Contracts Management or Commercial Management is preferred
  • Assistance with achieving MRICS through the APC route can be provided to candidate able to show their commitment to work towards this status

Employing Company Overview and Profile

This Cost Management and Contracts Management employer is a premium name in UK construction consultancy. Maxim Recruitment is proud to have worked with them in the UK and internationally for many years and we are one of a very few approved recruitment suppliers to this organisation.

This employer's broader business capability encompasses a variety of UK and international business units including project management, programme management, cost management and quantity surveying, commercial management, project controls, procurement and supply chain management.

In particular, this Senior Cost Manager job role is to work within the civil engineering and infrastructure division of their cost and contracts consultancy part of the company, that employs hundreds of Quantity Surveyors, Cost Managers and Contracts professionals dedicated to working on rail, airport, road, bridge, water and related civil engineering infrastructure projects.

Cost Manager jobs and project locations include being office based in Central London, and visiting selected sites and clients across the south east of England including locations in Essex, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Additional Benefits Package and Incentives

  • Generous basic salary
  • Car allowance
  • Private medical insurance
  • Health & life insurances
  • Personal accident cover
  • Generous pension & retirement contributions

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