Senior Cost Manager

• Lead the production and review of cost estimates to inform budgets for Infrastructure projects
• Lead the preparation of cost analysis and benchmarking reports to support value for money. Identifying trends, defining and cost drivers
• Lead the development of tools to enable the integration of data and dashboards/outputs to represent unit cost analyses
• Prepare cost estimates using a range of different techniques from first principles to reference class forecasting
• Analyse project scope information - liaison with project development and delivery teams required to ensure project requirements are accurately captured
• Quantify the works in line with relevant methods of measurement
• Price measured items according to the most relevant and appropriate technique
• Fully identify all relevant budget costs (construction, employer, risk and uncertainty)
• Undertake reviews, checks and assurance of existing estimates to ensure compliance with adequate standards and guidance
• Develop market testing exercises to inform prices of specific products and industry 'typical' benchmarks
• Benchmarking and cost modelling
• Update, validate and develop cost models and cost modelling techniques to enable the cost analysis of historical, recent, and new projects
• Develop continuous methodologies to monitor and boost progress of data capture and data quality
• Provide strategic thinking in support of continuous development
• Provide ownership of contents with challenge and interpretation

• Degree Educated: Construction or Economics related degrees, e.g.: Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Economics
• Experience in Commercial roles and function
• Has excellent numerical analysis and mathematical capabilities
• Has experience in reporting succinctly and comprehensively to all stakeholder's levels
• Can demonstrate a high attention to detail whilst working effectively with large volumes of data
• Experienced in validating data quality, identifying trends and optimising data flows/processes
• Good working knowledge of Estimating systems (at least one: PRISM-CostOS, CostX, CCS)
• Experienced in creating dashboards, visual tools / outputs for data analysis exercises
• Advanced MS Excel user (VBA and Power BI working knowledge desirable)

VBA and Power BI working knowledge

• Amazing structure and approach to training and progression
• Very competitive salary
• Fantastic location in central London