Senior Cost Manager – Data Centre

Overview

In this role you will support cost management for data centre and large real estate projects, coordinating with clients and consultants to ensure accurate cost plans and value engineering. You will lead a cost management team, drive process improvements, and help secure new opportunities with existing clients. The position sits within a global consulting practice focused on delivering cost excellence and proactive financial governance. This is an opportunity to shape project outcomes and contribute to high-profile programmes.

Pay / Benefits

• great place to work
• flexible working environment
• work-life balance
• equal opportunity
• inclusive environment

Responsibilities

• Assist with feasibility studies and procurement reports
• Estimate and plan costs; present final cost plan
• Manage tendering, pre-qualification, tender lists, preliminaries, analysis, and reports
• Handle post-contract cost variances and change control
• Conduct cost checks and valuations; produce monthly post-contract cost reports
• Input into value engineering; negotiate final accounts
• Interface with clients and consultants at all project stages
• Lead cost management team; ensure accountability
• Identify new business opportunities with existing clients
• Assist in producing bid documentation
• Improve cost management procedures, templates, and products
• Ensure key information is 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 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

• communication skills
• client-facing
• leadership
• cost planning
• tendering and procurement
• value engineering

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