Cost Management Specialists – All Levels

Overview

As a Cost Management Specialist in our Edinburgh team, you help ensure projects stay on budget and deliver expected outcomes across infrastructure sectors. You will work in a cross-functional environment with clients and contractors to monitor costs, forecast needs, and manage change. The role focuses on governance, value engineering, and solid commercial support to enable project success. You’ll develop your operational and technical skills through diverse, industry-leading projects and structured progression. This is a mission-driven opportunity to shape cost management practices on high-impact programmes.

Pay / Benefits

• great place to work
• healthy, productive and flexible working environment
• focus on work-life balance
• excellent training and advancement opportunities
• diversity and inclusion
• opportunity to work on flagship projects

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain professional relationships with clients and project teams
• Administer contracts in line with project objectives and policies
• Provide accurate cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting to completion
• Monitor cost variances and contract cash flow; ensure timely applications
• Collaborate with client and contractor teams to deliver deliverables, KPIs and objectives
• Manage contract changes to keep projects within governance and best practices
• Improve forecast accuracy and budgeting processes
• Provide commercial knowledge and support to stakeholders
• Negotiate final accounts
• Lead people and commissions as needed

Key requirements

• Excellent communication
• Contract Management (NEC3, Option A,C & E preferred)
• Cost Management
• Change management and control
• Valuation
• Risk Management
• Procurement
• Estimating
• Pricing
• Reporting
• Collaborative approach and best-for-project attitude
• Sharing best practice
• People management
• Commission management
• Identifying and driving efficiencies and improvements through the project life cycle
• Knowledge of procurement routes, value management and value engineering
• Ideally Degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant subject
• Ideally hold or be working towards professional body membership or equivalent

• Collaborative approach
• Excellent communication
• People management
• NEC3 contract management (Option A, C & E preferred)
• Cost management and forecasting
• Change management and control

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