Senior Cost Manager (Construction Consultancy)

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Career development opportunities

Flexible benefits

Job summary

AECOM Limited is seeking a Senior Cost Manager in Birmingham to join the Birmingham Cost Management team. You will lead cost management across the full project lifecycle, mentor junior staff, and ensure delivery from inception through to final account and post‑contract valuations.

This role emphasizes client liaison and value optimization in projects across commercial, industrial and logistics sectors. Join a global infrastructure leader with a hybrid working model, develop your career, and

Qualifications

• Degree in Quantity Surveying or Cost Management and Chartered status with RICS.
• Proven experience in cost management across full project lifecycles.
• Ability to advise on cost, value and risk with digital measurement and tender docs.
• Ability to advise clients and design teams on cost, value and risk.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from inception to completion from a cost management perspective.
• Provide mentoring to junior staff and manage project teams.
• Produce cost estimates, cost plans, procurement advice and post‑contract valuations.
• Ensure timely delivery of commissions and client satisfaction.
• Build strong relationships with clients and project teams.
• Act as client interface for new and existing projects.

Skills

Cost management

Client liaison

Project leadership

IT proficiency

Education

BSc/MSc Quantity Surveying or Cost Management

Chartered with RICS

Tools

Digital measurement tools

Cost planning software

Job description

• Full-time
• State/Province: Birmingham
• Business Group: DCS
• Legal Entity: AECOM Limited
• Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places
• Work Location Model: Hybrid
• Operating Group: International
• Primary Location: UK - Birmingham - Colmore Plaza

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

Our Birmingham Cost Management team continues to grow, with specific growth demand within the Commercial, Industrial and Logistics, Residential and Education markets where we have successfully secured positions with many high-profile clients and some key local projects and programs in the industry. As a direct result of this growth, we are currently seeking an Senior Cost Manager to join our Birmingham team.

You will be expected to work as part of an integrated team, with the role of Senior Cost Manager covering the whole project lifecycle from initial inception and business case development, through the design process, procurement process, site delivery, commissioning phase and defects management.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Provide effective support, mentoring and line management to Project Surveyors / Cost Managers, Graduates and Apprentices.
• Leading projects from a Cost Management perspective from inception to completion.
• Production of cost estimates, cost plans, procurement and tendering advice, through to post-contract delivery of valuations, change control, reporting and final account.
• Taking responsibility for the delivery of projects and managing support teams.
• Ensures commissions are managed and completed efficiently, on time and to the client’s satisfaction.
• Develops strong reciprocal relationships with clients and members of the project team.
• Be an interface with AECOM clients (new and existing).

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives.

Why not give our AECOM Buildings + Places page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see first hand the difference we're making in the industry!

Come grow with us.

Enjoy the Perks.

At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Degree Qualified – BSc or MSc – in Quantity Surveying / Cost Management.
• Professional Qualified – Chartered Status with the RICS.
• Proven experience in Cost Management providing a full spectrum of deliverables throughout projects.
• Proven ability to advise clients and design teams on cost, value and risk, not just cost in isolation.
• Excellent IT Skills and the ability to utilise digital measurement, cost planning and tender documentation tools shall be essential.
• Experience of project types/sizes/sectors within our active sectors in the UK – i.e. Commercial, Industrial and Logistics, Residential, Higher Education and Mixed Use.

Additional Information

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options.Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are aDisabilityConfidentEmployer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [emailprotected] if you would like to apply through theDisabilityConfidentInterview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.