Cost Manager – Real Estate

Overview

In this role you will drive cost management for real estate and infrastructure projects, partnering with clients and consultants to deliver accurate cost plans, tendering outcomes, and post-contract valuations. You will lead a cost management team, improve procedures, and feed learnings into the internal database to support value-driven decisions. The work spans feasibility through final accounts, with a focus on high-quality client service and proactive opportunities for business growth. This is a chance to shape cost strategies across diverse projects in a leading consultancy.

Pay / Benefits

• healthy, productive and flexible working environment
• work-life balance
• equal opportunity employer
• inclusive environment
• opportunities for career development
• team collaboration across sectors

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

• Excellent communication
• client facing
• leadership
• Cost management
• Tendering and procurement
• Value engineering

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