Cost Manager

Currie & Brown Group Limited; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance (Mutuelle)

Reimbursement of public transport 50%

Hybrid working

Job summary

Currie & Brown Group Limited is seeking a cost consultant in Paris to support project leaders with high-standard service delivery across large commercial builds and residential projects. The role involves cost advice, reporting, and collaboration with managers to control budgets.

You will work in a hybrid Paris office, interact with clients, and develop knowledge across government frameworks and private sector projects.

Qualifications

• Degree in construction economics, cost management, civil engineering, or equivalent.
• Professional fluency in French; knowledge of French procurement, contracts and cost conventions for France is a plus.
• MRICS membership preferred.
• Private commercial sector experience in offices, residential, hospitality, or major projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide accurate cost advice and reporting to clients.
• Deliver projects, commissions and professional assignments.
• Support setting objectives and priorities as a proactive team member.
• Maintain effective communication for project completion; liaise with managers for financial control.
• Undertake commercial management services with limited supervision.
• Deliver outputs accurately and on time.
• Support team leaders in cost management of projects.
• Represent the company professionally to clients and stakeholders.

Skills

French fluency

Communication

Team player

Cost management

Sustainability data skills

Education

Degree in construction economics / cost management

Tools

CostX

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Currie & Brown is one of the leading international physical asset management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation and reputation with a genuine global office network.

Our people, from the first-day apprentice to senior management make our business what it is today. Everybody in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced they are, plays their own unique part in our success and have fun along the way.

The role – what is it we would like you to do?

Currie & Brown is currently looking for a cost consultant. The successful candidate will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing, and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider working across a range of projects such as large commercial new builds for blue chip clients, private residential, towers and national government frameworks etc.

Your core duties will involve:

• Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to our clients
• Delivering projects, commissions and professional assignments
• Assuming a supporting role in setting objectives and priorities, working as a proactive team player
• Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for the successful completion of projects; liaising with managers to ensure efficient financial control
• Undertaking commercial management services with limited supervision
• Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
• Providing support to the team leader/service leaders in cost management of projects
• Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships

What skills and attributes are we looking for from you?

• Degree in construction economics, cost management, civil engineering, or equivalent
• Professional fluency in French and knowledge of French construction procurement, contracts and cost conventions if the role will support projects in France
• Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) preferred
• Private commercial sector experience – ideally experience gained from some of the following: offices, residential, hospitality, major projects, fit out and refurb
• Proficient CostX or alternative estimating, quantity take-off or construction-economics software
• Sustainability and Data Skills i.e. carbon assessment and Power BI
• Pre and post-contract experience
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute
• A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible

About Us

Why choose Currie & Brown?

Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people’s futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage – providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.

We are a truly independent business where our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions that drive real impact. As part of Sidara, we collaborate directly with some of the world’s brightest partner brands in our industry, offering exciting opportunities to innovate and grow.

Paris, France

• Private health insurance (Mutuelle)
• Reimbursement of public transport costs 50%

Working flexibility

• Hybrid working is available, with employees having the possibility to work from home

Working hours & Environment

• The standard working week is 37 hours.
• Employees also benefit from RTT days in accordance with the applicable working time arrangements.
• Our office is located within a modern coworking building, providing access to various meeting rooms. We have a young and dynamic team in Paris

Location & Accessibility

• The office is conveniently located near Saint-Lazare.
• Excellent public transport links are available, including Metro lines 3, 12, 13 and 14, RER E, Transilien lines L and J, and numerous train services from Saint-Lazare station.
• Parking facilities are available nearby.