Strategic Cost Lead – Capital Projects

Center Parcs UK & Ireland; Newark on Trent; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Management Bonus Scheme (up to 18%)

Company Car

Enhanced pension plan (8% employee, 7%

Life Assurance

Private Medical Insurance (optional)

Job summary

Center Parcs UK & Ireland is recruiting a Cost Manager to lead estimating, cost control and forecasting across its capital investment portfolio. Working from our Forest House office with hybrid on/offsite travel, you will drive Earned Value management and provide auditable cost baselines to maximise value.

You will collaborate with project managers and procurement, develop early-stage costs, benchmark against industry standards and challenge assumptions to ensure financial discipline across

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cost engineering, quantity surveying or commercial management within complex capital programmes.
• Ability to develop robust early-stage estimates and cost plans from limited information.
• Experience in budgeting, forecasting, cost reporting, contingency management and change control.

Responsibilities

• Own the estimating, cost control and forecasting across the capital investment portfolio.
• Drive robust forecasting, performance analysis and Earned Value Management.
• Provide robust estimating, tender evaluation and commercial support to projects.
• Deliver a consolidated view of capital investment performance and identify cost pressures.
• Drive robust cost governance, forecasting and change control across the portfolio.

Skills

Cost engineering

Quantity surveying

Commercial management

Job description

Center Parcs UK & Ireland is recruiting a Cost Manager to lead estimating, cost control and forecasting across its capital investment portfolio. Working from our Forest House office with hybrid on/offsite travel, you will drive Earned Value management and provide auditable cost baselines to maximise value.

You will collaborate with project managers and procurement, develop early-stage costs, benchmark against industry standards and challenge assumptions to ensure financial discipline across