Cost Consultant - Health

Mace; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every project, including healthcare. This role focuses on developing and maintaining detailed cost breakdowns, creating cost models, and presenting insights to senior decision makers in a multidisciplinary team in Greater London.

You’ll need strong analytical skills, stakeholder engagement, and knowledge of MMC/DFMA concepts, with openness to hybrid working and flexible arrangements.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering cost analyses in large infrastructure programmes.
• Ability to develop cost models and present data to senior decision makers.
• Strong stakeholder engagement across multidisciplinary teams.
• Healthcare or hospital construction project experience is preferred.
• Professional accreditation such as chartered engineer is desirable.
• Knowledge of MMC, DFMA, or offsite manufacturing is desirable.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills with a focus on deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed cost breakdowns.
• Develop cost models and process cost data for senior decision makers.
• Prepare reports capturing supply chain feedback and integrate into models.
• Collaborate across a national programme across directorates.
• Advise on funding models and procurement strategies from a cost perspective.
• Provide cost insights to acquisitions teams to prioritise products.
• Analyse supply chain costs, including logistics and supplier relationships.
• Interface with pre-contract cost and commercial management teams.

Skills

Cost analysis

Cost modelling

Stakeholder engagement

Data presentation

Healthcare projects

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Education

Chartered engineer

Job description

Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project and redefine the boundaries of ambition. Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team of engineers, cost specialists and industrialisation experts, the role will be responsible for developing and maintaining detailed cost breakdowns, developing cost models and processing cost data into a presentable format for senior decision makers.

The role will entail the preparation of reports to capture supply chain feedback, and integrate that supplier intelligence accurately within cost models, cost plans and product selection assessments.

The role will require collaborative working across a national programme and will require a strong understanding of healthcare project delivery, including the cost and performance implications of relevant health technical memoranda and health building notes.

You’ll Be Responsible For

• Conducting comprehensive cost analysis across the products, including developing related product documents and contributing to digital initiatives.
• Identifying and quantifying opportunities for cost efficiencies and savings through procurement route analysis and detailed cost modelling.
• Developing cost bases for industrialisation options, including enhancements to existing tools or new tooling solutions.
• Collaborating with product leads to understand cost and performance drivers and recording areas for optimisation.
• Supporting the evaluation of commercial and procurement strategies, including common components and MEP procurement, to ensure value for money.
• Advising on funding models and high-level principles of implementation for procurement and architecture integration from a cost perspective.
• Providing cost and commercial insights and recommendations to support strategic decision-making regarding industrialisation initiatives.
• Providing cost advice to acquisitions teams to enable prioritisation of key products through optimised procurement strategies.
• Interfacing with pre-contract cost and commercial management and estimating teams to enable cross-collaboration with the Industrialisation team.
• Analysing supply chain costs, including logistics, manufacturing, and supplier relationships, to identify areas for efficiency gains.

You’ll Need To Have

• Experience operating in a delivery partner/infrastructure programme environment with multiple directorates and functions to engage.
• Alliance procurement/contracting.
• Major programme mobilisation.
• Strong understanding of Industrialisation principles and related terms, including modern methods of construction (MMC), design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA), or offsite manufacturing.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with experience working in multidisciplinary teams and with supply chain partners.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver to tight deadlines.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Experience working on healthcare or hospital construction projects.
• Professional accreditation (e.g., chartered engineer, membership of a relevant professional body).
• Understanding of supply chain management and integration in an industrialised construction context.

Our values

• Safety first - Going home safe and well: We champion a safe, diverse and inclusive working environment, understanding the importance of wellbeing in every team.
• Client focus - Deliver on our promise: We own the quality of deliverables, strategic outcomes and build long term relationships with our clients.
• Integrity - Always do the right thing: We influence positive outcomes within our industry, while always aligning with our compliance obligations.
• Create opportunity - For our people to excel: We champion a continuous improvement culture throughout all activities, inspiring our people and teams to develop.

We are also open to discussing part time, flexible, and hybrid working options if suitable within the role.