Cost Manager – Real Estate

Overview

In this role you will lead cost management activities for diverse projects across hotels, residential schemes, and commercial offices. You will work within a consulting team to deliver cost plans, tendering, value engineering, and post-contract reporting, aligning with clients and consultants. The position offers exposure to large-scale builds and a path to MRICS, with opportunities to improve processes and contribute to a data-led cost management practice. You will report on financial performance and support business development with existing clients.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working environment
• healthy work-life balance
• inclusive environment
• equal opportunity employer
• opportunities for career progression
• collaborative culture

Responsibilities

• Assist with feasibility studies and procurement reports
• Estimate and plan costs, present the final cost plan
• Manage tendering, pre-qualification, tender list, preliminaries, analysis, and reports
• Handle post-contract cost variances and change control
• Conduct cost checks and valuations, ensuring accuracy
• Produce and present monthly post-contract cost reports
• Input into value engineering
• Negotiate and agree on final accounts
• Interface with clients and consultants at all project stages
• Lead cost management team, ensuring accountability
• Identify new business opportunities with existing clients
• Assist in producing bid documentation
• Improve cost management procedures, templates, and products
• Ensure key information and learnings are input into the internal database
• Track financial management using FMS
• Identify and refer ideas for process improvement
• Assess commission management quality and efficiency

Key requirements

• Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying
• MRICS qualified or working towards
• UK Cost Management experience within the Real Estate/Property sector
• Experience working on larger projects
• Experience working on new build and fit-out projects
• Excellent communication skills and client facing

• Excellent communication skills
• Client-facing
• Leadership and accountability
• Cost management
• Cost planning and estimation
• Tendering and procurement

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