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Role: Cost Manager
Location: DACH - Remote
We have partnered a Global powerhouse who are looking for a Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyorto join their team and support construction cost services for their clients.
This role offers a fantastic opportunity to advance your career while collaborating with a dynamic team on impactful projects across a versatile portfolio in the corporate occupier (commercial interiors), industrial manufacturing, and data center sectors.
Responsibilities:
- Advising client on strategies, managing prequalification of vendors, assessing proposals, bids, and bid levelling documents, making final recommendations to the client, attending & chairing bid interviews, and managing appointment process
- Manage estimating services for full project by developing project estimates (relating to construction, fees, direct work and other costs), reviewing estimations prepared by junior team members, presenting estimates to client, presenting value engineering recommendations and risk assessments to client, meeting with vendors to review, validate, and challenge costs, and reviewing estimates by utilizing benchmark data collected from other projects
- Manage cost reporting by establishing reporting schedule, reviewing & presenting cost reports and forecasts, reviewing project budget & spend forecast with the client, developing & maintaining commercial risk register, and hosting periodic meetings with project team & vendors
- Manage cost control process by reviewing payment application assessments prepared by junior team members, liaising with project managers to recommend contractor entitlements, reviewing requests for change orders from vendors & making recommendations to client, and using dispute prevention/management/resolution procedures to manage payment requisitions, change orders, and contractual disputes
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in construction management, cost management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction.
- Minimum 3-5 years of relevant commercial real estate experience working in a cost management role in the construction industry.
- RICS accredited or working towards it is valuable
- Experience supporting cost management on medium or large sized construction projects.
- Construction consultancy experience is strongly preferred.
- Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering.
Seniority level
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
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General BusinessIndustries
Business Consulting and Services and Construction
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