Senior Cost Manager – Commercial Developer

Overview

In this role you contribute to cost management across real estate projects, supporting feasibility, cost planning, tendering, post-contract cost control, and value engineering. You will interface with clients and consultants, lead the cost management team, and help identify opportunities to improve procedures and profitability. The role sits within a global advisory practice delivering value-driven outcomes for hotels, residential, and commercial properties. This is a hands-on opportunity to shape project economics and lifecycle cost performance.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working environment
• healthy work-life balance
• equal opportunity employer
• inclusive environment
• opportunity to affect change
• global exposure

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

• MRICS qualified
• 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

• communication
• client facing
• leadership
• cost planning
• tendering and procurement
• post-contract cost control

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