Associate Cost Consultant

• Associate Cost Consultant
• Location: Hybrid – 3 days based in either London/Oxford/Cambridge, 2 days remote
• Salary: £80k - £95k + £5.5k car allowance
• 27 days holiday + bank holiday

Our client is a leading engineering and design consultancy who specialise in delivering high-profile research, technological and life science facilities for market leading national and global clients.

They’re currently in the process of growing their Life Science Cost Management team and are looking for an experienced Associate Cost Consultant to join their team.

As part of the Cost Management team, you’ll be involved in a wide range of projects from global and high profile to small and impactful, ensuring they’re delivered on time and to budget. Your expertise in cost management, planning, estimating, budgeting and managing costs will drive growth and smarter working.

Ideally, we are looking for candidates with experience working on large complex construction projects, ideally within Life Science, sector or from within other heavy MEP/Manufacturing sectors.

Role accountabilities:

In this role, you’ll provide professional Quantity Surveying and Cost Management services to high-profile clients working on science facilities across the UK & Europe with a focus on of London, Oxford and Cambridge.

• Lead, coach and develop the skills and capabilities of team members to share knowledge, increase team skill level and improve the standard of service delivery
• Create project costings and budgets from clear objectives, managing finances across a project to ensure the profit and budgetary targets are met and best value outcomes are achieved
• Lead and manage individual cost management assignments from inception to completion, managing teams and resources to ensure delivery standards meet client expectations
• Demonstrable understanding of clients key objectives with the appropriate sector
• Monitor and review the performance and behaviour of all team members, including educating and influencing others, and take action to ensure compliance with the organisational policies and codes of conduct across the entire project
• Assure compliance with contracts in terms of project delivery parameters and scope of service
• Analyse and compile a range of complex data and documents, using knowledge to review and assess analysis and provide recommendations to contribute to project decision-making
• Use own knowledge and experience of industry best practice to support the development of current cost and commercial management systems and processes
• Work to improve services and drive innovation to increase team contribution to project delivery
• Manage relationships with customers to identify opportunities to improve the cost management offering and deliver customer satisfaction
• Act as a key technical resource within the field of cost/commercial management, providing technical advice and solutions to internal colleagues to support successful project delivery across a range of projects
• Build valued relationships with senior clients and stakeholders, in order to ensure client satisfaction, develop the cost management service and create new business opportunities

Qualifications & Experience:

• You are a technically capable with a passion for the industrial manufacturing sector and delivering exceptional results and come to us with
• MRICS Chartered Quantity Surveyor
• Passionate about driving innovation in service and delivering exceptional results
• Proven experience working on large complex construction projects within Research, Technology and Life Science, Research, Technology and Life Science
• Ability to lead projects from inception to completion
• Strong cost estimating experience and rate / benchmark knowledge
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build good client relationships
• Experience coaching and mentoring junior colleagues
• Good leadership skills
• Experience with Digital Cost Management and CostX, 5D BIM and Benchmarking tools

For more information on this role, please contact Scarlet Wilson.