Senior Cost Consultant

Currie And Brown; Manchester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading international consultancy as a Cost Consultant in Manchester, where your expertise in quantity surveying will shine. This role is pivotal in delivering exceptional service to clients, enhancing project outcomes, and fostering a culture of innovation. You'll engage in commercial management, provide insightful cost advice, and support project leaders in achieving excellence. With a commitment to your professional growth and a focus on diversity and inclusion, this forward-thinking company offers not just a job, but a fulfilling career path with opportunities for international mobility. Be part of a team that values your contributions and invests in your future.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits packages

Career progression opportunities

International mobility options

Inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent required.
• Membership of MRICS is essential for this role.

Responsibilities

• Provide accurate cost advice and reporting to clients.
• Deliver projects and maintain effective communication for success.

Skills

BSc in quantity surveying

Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)

Expert level Excel

Proficient in CostX or other Cost Planning software

Sustainability and Data Skills (e.g., carbon assessment, Power BI)

Contract administration skills

Pre and post-contract experience

Good technical writing skills

Client-facing and communication skills

Well-organised and proactive

Education

BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent

Tools

CostX

Excel

Power BI

Job description

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About The Role

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 / senior cost consultant to join our Manchester office. 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.

Your core duties will involve:

• Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to our clients
• Delivering projects, commissions and professional assignments
• Assuming a leading 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 other 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?

• BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent
• Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
• Healthcare and Pharma experience desirable
• Private commercial sector experience - ideally experience gained from some of the following: offices, residential, hospitality, major projects, fit out and refurb
• Expert level Excel user
• Proficient CostX or other Cost Planning software
• Sustainability and Data Skills i.e. carbon assessment and Power BI
• Contract administration skills
• 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.

We don't offer just a job; we offer a career with a clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.

We are an international industry leader - Working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally-led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the world's most prestigious projects and for some of the world's top clients.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be taken seriously. Diverse people, backgrounds and experiences develop the most innovative of ideas, they are essential to our success, that is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.

With the backing of our parent company, we are a truly independent business. Our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions, as well as work directly with some of the world's brightest partner brands in our industry through Dar Group.

We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.