Senior Cost Manager

Description:

Our dedicated team provide a wealth of experience throughout all sectors, giving expert advice to all clients through our thorough knowledge of the MEP market, from material cost changes through to understanding contractor workloads within the sector. Allowing the team to give detailed cost advice. With our team spread across different regions of the UK we can provide a unique service offering of key personnel with the MEP expertise to cater for our clients’ needs regardless of sector, location and/or project challenges.

We are currently recruiting a Cost Manager or Senior Cost Manager (Mechanical and Electrical) to join our London office.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced candidate to join and strengthen our MEP Cost Management offering. The role will involve providing all MEP Cost Management services across a variety of ever changing, high profile, high value, and complex and projects within sectors such as Major Projects, Aviation, Hotels & Leisure, Retail, Residential and Sports & Entertainment and Industrial & Logistics.

MEP Cost Management is a buoyant specialism for RLB and our numerous clients, and one that is experiencing massive growth. We are therefore looking for future leaders to carry the sector forward, which poses a brilliant opportunity for personal development and progression within the business. You will be joining an established and supportive team of cost management professionals with extensive and diverse experience.

Role Responsibilities
 

• Leading the successful delivery of MEP packages and projects from a cost management / quantity surveying perspective.
• The candidate will be an integral part of a team that is accountable for the commercial and contractual performance of a project.
• Pre and Post Contract Quantity Surveying
• Strategic cost planning and management
• Procurement and contract administration
• Financial reporting and risk management
• Stakeholder engagement and collaboration
• Benchmarking and market intelligence
• Systems and process improvement
• Compliance and governance
• Contribute to the financial performance of projects and the wider business, including revenue and profitability
• Promote efficiency, effectiveness and best practice across projects and teams
• Keep up to date with current thinking and best practice within the discipline
• Work closely with clients, contractors and project teams to deliver projects successfully and on budget
• Comply with established Commercial, Procurement, Contractual strategies
• To carry out assigned duties efficiently and in accordance with processes and procedures
   

Candidate Profile

Qualifications
 

• Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying or similar technical discipline.
• Preferably Chartered via RICS or another relevant professional body, or studying toward.
   

Experience
 

• Strong technical delivery experience.
• MEP Cost Management experience.
• Client facing, ensuring a high standard of technical delivery.
• Previously employed by a consultancy, specialist MEP firm / contractor.
• Stakeholder management with a clear focus on developing client accounts.
• A track record of working with teams and managing projects by prioritising workloads and delivering deadlines.
   

Behaviours
 

• Recognised as a client focused, positive collaborator who shares knowledge freely and offers support to their peers and seniors. Recognised as a team player with a strong willingness to learn.
• Demonstrates a positive and proactive approach to the role, and will be committed to delivering customer service excellence, with good commercial results.