Cost Consultant: Cities & Places Net Zero Impact (Hybrid)

Mace; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working options

Job summary

Mace seeks a cost-management professional to drive cost planning, procurement strategies and robust reporting across diverse government projects. You will support client-focused outcomes, uphold integrity, and lead teams toward sustainable, net-zero ambitions.

With experience in value engineering, contracts and stakeholder management, you will influence project outcomes while advancing a carbon-conscious approach across all activities. Flexibility in work arrangements is welcomed.

Qualifications

• Degree in quantity surveying or cost management.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen.
• Expertise in value engineering, contracts, sustainability, and stakeholder management.
• Proven experience delivering projects within diverse teams and shaping outcomes with carbon-conscious approaches.

Responsibilities

• Supporting client-focused outcomes through effective cost planning, procurement, and achievement of strategic KPIs.
• Upholding integrity, managing ethically viable operations and driving net zero carbon transition.
• Creating opportunity by mentoring teams, championing innovation, and embedding continuous improvement across all activities.
• Managing feasibility studies, procurement strategies, and contract selection, ensuring robust reporting and compliance.
• Managing cost planning, valuations, and financial control, presenting accurate reports to stakeholders.
• Overseeing contracts, claims, and completion processes, securing project success and stakeholder confidence.
• Mentoring teams, drive continuous improvement, and champion net zero carbon transition across all activities.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Value engineering

Contract management

Sustainability

Stakeholder management

Decarbonisation

Education

Degree in quantity surveying or cost management

Job description

Mace seeks a cost-management professional to drive cost planning, procurement strategies and robust reporting across diverse government projects. You will support client-focused outcomes, uphold integrity, and lead teams toward sustainable, net-zero ambitions.

With experience in value engineering, contracts and stakeholder management, you will influence project outcomes while advancing a carbon-conscious approach across all activities. Flexibility in work arrangements is welcomed.