Senior Cost Manager, Cost and Commercial Management – Corporate Occupier

Overview

As a Senior Cost Manager, you influence major Corporate Occupier projects from inception through delivery, advising client teams and shaping commercial outcomes. You will lead cost and governance workstreams, drive value through benchmarking and digital tools, and ensure quality and risk controls across complex programmes. This role sits in the Cost and Commercial Management team, collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to achieve client objectives and project success.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working environment
• healthy and productive work culture
• focus on work-life balance
• inclusion and diversity
• opportunity to influence major projects
• career development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Deliver end-to-end cost and commercial management on large, complex projects
• Provide strategic input at project inception to align delivery with client objectives
• Lead development of project success criteria (cost, schedule, technical, performance)
• Produce benchmarking and cost intelligence and promote use of digital tools
• Plan and oversee quality, health, safety and environmental requirements
• Establish project governance, processes, and systems throughout the lifecycle
• Advise on procurement of project resources
• Lead collaboration across multidisciplinary teams
• Monitor performance with KPIs and manage change control
• Monitor finances and provide commercial advice and recommendations
• Manage client communications and ensure delivery within cost, schedule, and quality targets
• Deliver services from strategic advisory to detailed project reporting
• Fulfil SOX control responsibilities where applicable
• Apply risk management methodologies across projects
• Ensure governance, quality standards and risk management compliance
• Contribute to annual budget-setting process
• Support delivery of strategic initiatives
• Maintain accurate, secure project information

Key requirements

• 8-10 years’ experience as Project/Senior Cost/Commercial Manager on large projects
• Extensive experience in project control/commercial management
• Experience in Capital Planning and PMO collaboration for commercial strategies
• Knowledge of proprietary cost management systems
• Proven ability to win clients through business development
• Experience leading and mentoring teams
• Understanding of information management systems
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency in Word (document editing), Excel (pivot tables, complex calculations/graphs), PowerPoint (presentations)
• Professionally qualified (RICS or similar) or working towards

• strong communication skills
• leadership and mentoring
• ability to work with senior client stakeholders
• proprietary cost management systems
• Excel (pivot tables, complex calculations and graphs)
• PowerPoint

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