Associate Director - Cost Management

Virtual Hire Staffing; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited holidays

Private health cover

Life insurance

Income protection

Support for professional development

Job summary

Virtual Hire Staffing is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join a fast-growing practice in Birmingham. You\'ll lead cost management across healthcare, education and commercial developments in the Midlands, working closely with Project Managers from early RIBA stages.

You should be MRICS-qualified with extensive consultancy and/or client-side QS experience, able to handle JCT and NEC contracts, act as Employer\'s Agent, and lead client relationships at senior level.

Qualifications

• Must have degree qualification in QS and MRICS accreditation.
• Extensive consultancy and/or client-side QS experience.
• Strong ability to lead cost management across healthcare, education and commercial sectors.
• Experience with JCT and NEC contracts and contract administration.

Responsibilities

• Lead cost management across healthcare, education and commercial developments.
• Shape cost plans and commercial strategy on a varied project book.
• Act as Employer's Agent covering certification, change control and commercial management.
• Manage design teams, contractors and stakeholders and lead client relationships at senior level.

Skills

Cost management

Employer's Agent

Contract administration

Education

MRICS

Degree in Quantity Surveying

Job description

Required Skills

• MRICS

Job Summary

Birmingham has become one of the most interesting places to work as a QS in the Midlands. A fast-growing practice is building its team there, and the first senior QS to join will shape how the function runs from day one. You'll lead cost management across healthcare, education and commercial developments throughout the Midlands, working closely with Project Managers from early RIBA stages.

Alongside project, development and sustainability specialists, you'll shape cost plans and commercial strategy on a varied project book. The work is hands-on and bespoke, with none of the off-the-shelf process you might be used to. You'll bring extensive consultancy and/or client-side QS experience, with proven delivery under JCT and NEC contracts, including contract administration.

You'll be comfortable acting as Employer's Agent, covering certification, change control and commercial management, and confident managing design teams, contractors and stakeholders. A strong grip on cost, programme and risk is essential, as is the confidence to lead client relationships at senior level. You'll be degree-qualified and MRICS, and healthcare, education or commercial experience is desirable.

Experience in management and mentoring junior surveyors would also be welcomed but not essential right away. The step up to Associate Director is a real one. You'll have the chance to shape the Birmingham QS function alongside the Operations Director and, in time, move towards shares and equity.

The business is collaborative and down-to-earth, backs its people, and invests in where they're going. Hybrid working is standard, and the benefits go well beyond the usual: unlimited holidays, enhanced family pay, life insurance and income protection, private health cover, and support for further study and professional development.

If you're a QS who wants more ownership, more variety and the chance to help build something rather than maintain it, this could be worth a conversation.