Oxon Park is sourcing an experienced Cost Manager to join a widely successful Construction Consultancy company based in Bourne End. You will work with clients mainly across London and the Home Counties to provide improved and affordable healthcare locations aligned to evolving clinical service and healthcare economy needs.
As a Cost Manager, you will be responsible for implementing, administering and maintaining cost control systems and procedures to track budgets, commitments, expenditures and forecasts.
The main role requirements will be:
- Provide cost information to support decision-making
- Evaluate contractor invoices before submission for approval
- Evaluate and analyse fee proposals/bids and provide recommendations for decision-making
- Help ensure that commercial processes are adhered to across the business unit and actively seek to improve processes and procedures
- Establish friendly, professional and appropriate relationships with clients, colleagues and other parties involved in the projects and programmes we support
- Proactively providing sound commercial knowledge and support to all stakeholders
- Maintain and manage cost reports
- Assist in the development, validation and maintenance of the project schedule
- Assist in developing reporting tracking tools and generate monthly cost reports
- Support the coordination of the Change Management process
- Reconcile data to support complete accuracy and clean audit trail
Pre-Contract
- Developing cost plans and estimates through the design phase, delivering updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones
- Providing commercial input to design development
- Producing tender documents, overseeing the tender process, and delivering a conclusive tender report.
- Input into value engineering, and risk management exercises
- Reviewing contractor and subcontractor pricing and leading negotiations on behalf of the client to drive fair contract prices
Post-Contract
- Performing quantity surveying, cost controls and change management activities throughout the project life cycle
- Ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively
- Ensuring that cost auditing and valuation work is managed effectively and that a robust process for cost validation is in place
- Carrying out the production of monthly cost reports for presentation to the client
- Project close-out activities including settling final accounts, final reports, finance ledger reconciliation, benchmark data capture, and lessons learnt capture.
Skills and experience desired
- 5 years of relevant experience desired
- Ideally, degree qualified in construction, cost management or quantity surveying
- Experience of leading cost management on medium or large-sized projects of medium to high complexity
- Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering
- Commercial construction experience, preferred
Salary Range
£40,000 - £60,000 D.O.E
Company Benefits
25 days holiday not including statutory and public holidays (increases by 1 day for each completed years service up to a max of 3 years)
Company Bonus Scheme
Private Healthcare
Flexible Working Policy
Statutory Pension Contribution
2 Charitable days per year
Progression opportunities and training contribution
Quarterly Staff Events