Senior Cost Planner

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A residential development firm in London is looking for a Senior Cost Planner to manage surveyors and estimators in commercial operations. The successful candidate will oversee costs, manage budgets, and ensure project efficiencies. Strong experience in construction and team leadership is required. This is an excellent opportunity to work on future-oriented projects.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cost planning and management within construction.
• Strong understanding of pre-contract design stages (RIBA stages 0-3).
• Experience managing teams effectively.

Responsibilities

• Manage front-end commercial operations including bidding and cost planning.
• Drive collaboration with departments to enhance project delivery.
• Identify and price project-specific risks, preparing mitigation strategies.

Skills

Cost management

Budget management

Procurement strategy

Team management

Job description

Potensis Selection is thrilled to partner with a fantastic London based residential developer who are looking to add to their existing commercial team by adding in a Senior Cost Planner.

Reporting to the Commercial Director, you will effectively manage a team of surveyors and estimators, taking overall responsibility of a number of developments, including regeneration schemes and projects that have multiple phases. Effectively manage costs, ensure targets are met by managing and controlling the budget and valuations, including monthly updating of the estimated final costs, overall responsibility for all sub-contractor procedures and processes, and materials and goods if necessary.

Responsibilities

• Management/oversee of front-end commercial operations including bidding, land purchase, cost planning, design control, budget management, supply chain management/engagement, procurement strategy, and support of procurement activities to point of contract
• Drive consistency of all front-end activities that support and enhance commercial teams in procurement and ultimately securing smoother delivery
• Enhance collaboration with relevant departments including planning, buying, procurement, commercial and design management teams
• Ability to support all stages of pre-contract design (typically RIBA stages 0-3) with the aim of optimising design efficiency and procurement activities all the way through to gateway approval.
• Support in the careful consideration of the golden thread and BSA gateway strategy for each project and tying this back to the project procurement strategy, identifying the correct supply chain that can truly deliver the requirements
• Identification and pricing of project specific risks and opportunities from outset; preparation of mitigation strategies and contingency advice to inform commercial appraisal
• Strategic management of supply chain - early engagement to drive greater cost certainty and up to date rates, tracking of supply chain exposure and management of relationships
• Tracking and analysis of inflation indices to allow informed forecasts to be developed and held in cost plans
• Early engagement of supply chain where unfamiliar risks are identified, and no in-house expertise exist
• Benchmarking of cost data and design metrics across all projects to support cost planning and provide context to board of current schemes in pre-contract stages
• Explore London specific cross regional standardisation and sharing of cost data, benchmarking, and design metrics to provide greater understanding of the wider market and what ‘excellent’ looks like. This would involve working with other regions to collaborate and share to benefit the wider business
• Collation of final account data to understand historic risk expenditure and feeding this back to front end cost planning activities
• Upskill cost planning teams on presentation tools and cost plan templates to drive consistency and clearer understanding across the business of build cost data, risks, opportunities, design metrics and benchmarking

This is an excellent opportunity to work for a leading mixed use developer with an excellent pipeline of future projects.