Cost Manager – Commercial Developer

Overview

In this role you drive cost management for real estate and development projects, partnering with clients and consultants to optimise budgets and maximise value. You will lead a cost management team across feasibility, procurement, and post-contract cost control, contributing to high-profile hotel, residential, and office schemes. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to improve processes and deliver reliable cost reports that inform decision-making. This is an opportunity to shape cost strategy on diverse projects within a global advisory firm.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working environment
• healthy work-life balance
• inclusive environment
• equal opportunity employer

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
• Client facing
• Leadership
• MRICS
• Cost management
• Feasibility and cost planning

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