Cost Manager – Real Estate

Overview

As a Cost Manager in our Consulting practice, you help clients deliver real estate and infrastructure projects within budget and timeline targets. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams across feasibility, procurement, and post-contract cost control to drive value and predictability. The role blends technical cost management with client-facing leadership, offering exposure to large-scale new builds and fit-outs. You will shape cost strategies and improvements that support project success and client outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working environment
• focus on work-life balance
• equal opportunity employer
• supportive culture
• career development opportunities
• inclusive workplace

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

• leadership and people management
• communication and stakeholder management
• client-facing collaboration
• Cost planning and estimation
• Tendering and procurement processes
• Post-contract cost management and variances

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