Cost Manager

Cost Manager

A national leading consultancy in Milton Keynes have an opening for a Cost Manger to join their team.

Working on a range of industry leading schemes, they operate within a range of sectors, including education, healthcare, leisure, retail and residential. The majority of their workload is refurbishment and they are most prominent in the retail sector

Lots of benefits:

• £40-55,000
• 27 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• 6% pension
• All expenses covered for work purposes
• Hybrid working 2-3 days office & home
• 8.30 to 5 again flexible you can start earlier/ finish earlier if you prefer
• Private health insurance and can add your family
• Open plan office
• Informal working environment
• Trust people manage your own work load
• Casual dress
• Regular social events
• Plenty of room to progress
• RICS support
• Excellent staff retention

The role - Cost Manager

You will be joining a team of 19, and will enjoy working in a collaborative working environment in a modern, open plan office.

You will either focus on works for 1 large client, or will work across schemes for several smaller clients.

Office based in the main, out seeing clients roughly once a week.

Job Objectives:

• Establishing friendly, professional relationships with clients and be an extension of their team
• Providing accurate project cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting to completion in line with budget.
• Pro-actively monitoring and managing cost variance and contract cash flow, and ensuring that applications are made correctly and in a timely manner.
• Collaborating with client and contractor teams to manage the delivery of project deliverables, KPIs, and objectives, including programme performance, cost control, and value engineering.
• Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed.

The right person. Cost Manager

You will either be an experienced Cost Manager, or a Quantity Surveyor or Estimator who is looking to move in to Cost Management

Main contractor or consultancy experience is essential

Refurbishment experience is key

You will used to working at pace on fast turnaround projects

Cost Manager / Cost Management / Quantity Surveyor / Estimator

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