Senior Cost Manager (Construction Consultancy)

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Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

Our Eastern (Cambridge, Norwich) Cost Management business unit continues to grow, with specific growth demand within the Education, Defence, Science, Commercial, Residential, Care, Industrial and Healthcare markets where we have successfully secured positions with many high profile clients and some key local projects and programs in the industry. As a direct result of this growth, we are currently seeking a Senior Cost Manager to join us.

About Our Team:

We are currently a region of over 100 construction professionals, delivering construction solutions for our diverse client base, providing a broad range of services. We strongly promote personal and career development with clear career structures and development programmes. We look to balance this with a flexible approach to working through our “Freedom to Grow” programme. We work well as a group and respect the outputs that the team deliver.  

As a Senior Cost Manager you will be required to deliver, but not be limited to the following task and responsibilities.

• You will be primarily working alongside an Associate or Director to successfully manage and deliver consultancy services on various capital projects across the East of England. 
• The role will cover the whole project lifecycle from initial inception/business case development estimates, through to cost planning, the RIBA design stages, procurement and onto the site delivery, commissioning and operational stages.
• You should possess the skills and experience to actively support the internal team, manage and mentor more junior staff on individual projects as well as technically complex projects, typically ranging between £5m to £100m (construction cost).
• You will help develop collaborative relationships with our existing clients and other professional colleagues within the industry.  Demonstrate an ability and desire to obtain an increasing understanding of a client’s business, demonstrating Client focus.
• Successful delivery of projects with minimum supervision, ensuring tasks on projects are managed and completed efficiently, on time and with a keen desire to maintain client’s satisfaction leading to continued and further business. 
• Day to day main client point of contact for projects. 
• Be enquiring, proactive and challenge where appropriate our own existing methods/processes to demonstrate value for money to the Client.

Minimum Requirements :

• Well developed interpersonal and communication skills are key.
• Ability to develop long term relationships with all team members, and effectively balance people and processes. 
• You will ideally be a self-motivated individual from a consultancy or client organisation background with the ability to work both independently and as part of a wider team.
• Proven experience in a consulting environment/client organisation providing the full spectrum of Cost Management services including Pre Contract Estimating; Procurement; Contract Administration, Cost Reporting and Final Account resolution.
• Solid and practised core measurement skills with experience of quantified procurement routes.
• Previous experience of managing internal resources, including the training and mentoring of more junior staff members is desirable.
• Good Understanding of contracts (JCT and NEC). 
• Supporter of social and CSR activities, promoting a positive and enjoyable workplace.
• Full UK driving licence and a willingness to travel.
• CSCS card holder

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Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Degree Qualified – BSc or MSc – in Quantity Surveying / Cost Management.
• Professional Qualified – Chartered Status with the RICS or other equivalent institution
• Full UK driving license, and a willingness to travel.
• CSCS card holder

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.