Senior Cost Manager – Real Estate Development

At Cumming Group, you will work on some of the world’s most exciting construction projects across a variety of sectors, in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where your success is measured by the impact you make. As a Senior Cost Manager, you will provide expert-level cost consultancy and project support for projects across various stages and sectors—from concept design to construction completion. You will be responsible for delivering estimates, procurement advice, and post-contract administration, working independently or managing a team, depending on project size and scope. You will partner with a diverse set of clients and internal teams to deliver exceptional value, acting as a trusted advisor and helping to ensure successful project outcomes.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Assume day-to-day delivery responsibility for projects and demonstrate the ability to take on tasks with minimal supervision.
• Strengthen our service delivery capability and promote knowledge capture, sharing and innovation.
• Prepare budget estimates, cost plans and client reports.
• Provide risk and value management.
• Contract administration including preparation of valuations, forecasts, cost reports and attendance at project meetings.
• Preparation of bills of quantities, schedules of rates, or other methods of work evaluation.
• Deliver all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner to a high standard of quality.
• Manage the delivery of work through proactive involvement where appropriate and through performance management of personnel to ensure work is completed in a timely manner to a high-quality standard.
• Undertake service delivery is in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Practice, particularly Health and Safety and Quality Assurance.
• Provide services in compliance with the client's corporate governance procedures where applicable.
• Achieve all objectives as required by the annual performance review process.
• Work to deadlines set by the Project Team Leader.
• Filing of project correspondence in accordance with requirements.
• Support bid and tender preparation and business development.
• Develop our business; networking and developing client relationships.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and continuous improvement.
• Administer change control processes for the services we provide.
• Provide advice on procurement and contracts.
• Prepare and evaluating tenders, contractor selection and contract documentation.
• Support the implementation of strategic initiatives at service and sector level.
• Assist in providing leadership to the staff, where required. Resolve conflicts of priorities and personalities relating to work with the appropriate Director or Associate.
• Assist in mentoring and coaching team members, ensuring that staff and new starters are developed to support the successful growth of the Practice and development of their career.

Knowledge & Skills Required:

• Deliver results in a client facing role including:
• Confidently respond to a client request; as well as understanding when to escalate client issues to senior members of the team.
• Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery.
• Ability to show resilience and resourcefulness in the face of highly complex challenges.
• Commitment to outperforming client expectations.
• Support stakeholder management.
• Deal diplomatically with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment, subject to change.
• Demonstrate flexibility in response to changing requirements and routines.
• Demonstrate a high degree of integrity.
• Show strong leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and manage teams including the supply chain.
• Starting to manage conflicting priorities and organise workloads in conjunction with the appropriate Director.
• Starting to prioritise and self-manage with ability to work in a high-pressure environment.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• Ideally degree qualified: construction, cost management, engineering, quantity surveying or other RICS accredited degree.
• MRICS / other equivalent qualification or experience.
• Some formal leadership development training.
• 5+ years’ experience.
• Strong knowledge of construction industry technical matters.
• Good experience of industry standard forms of contract, typically JCT and NEC.
• Good pre and post contract technical cost management skills.
• Good core technical skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong IT skills for the role including MS Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint.
• Developing interpersonal skills with both clients and staff. Good interpersonal skills with both client and staff
• Good analytical skills, sound judgement and an aptitude for forward planning.
• Energetic and motivated with natural drive and an innovative flair, resourcefulness and ability to adapt to change.
• An ability to think clearly and make reasoned decisions, explaining the logic employed.
• Some experience of managing people and delivering multiple or complex projects.