Pharma Cost Manager: Budget, Risk & Cashflow Lead

Currie & Brown Holdings; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

401k Matching

Paid Vacation

Job summary

Currie & Brown Group is seeking a senior Cost Manager to support pharmaceutical projects in the Philadelphia area. The role focuses on delivering high standard service, knowledge sharing, and fostering innovation across projects.

You will lead budgeting, cost estimation, and cost control activities, working with project teams and clients to ensure successful outcomes and strong governance. Candidates should have extensive cost engineering experience and a background in pharmaceuticals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related technical field preferred.
• Minimum of eight years' cost engineering, management and/or estimating experience.
• Quantity surveying background preferred.
• Experience on large complex capital projects, preferably pharmaceutical.
• Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Project).
• Strong self-management, time management and communication skills.
• Desire to lead, mentor and develop a team.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining budgets and tracking project costs.
• Undertaking change management and estimating impacts of changes.
• Handling monthly cost reporting and budget reconciliation.
• Developing risk registers and tracking impacts.
• Managing cashflow forecasting and monitoring.
• Reviewing contractor/consultant invoices and making payment recommendations.
• Developing WBS and cost breakdowns.
• Conducting cost estimating through design stages using data and history.
• Supporting client account management.
• Communicating details to stakeholders including presentations.
• Establishing and maintaining project controls tools.

Skills

Cost management

Budgeting

Estimating

Change management

WBS development

Cost reporting

Cashflow forecasting

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related technical field

Tools

MS Word

MS Excel

MS Project

Job description

Currie & Brown Group is seeking a senior Cost Manager to support pharmaceutical projects in the Philadelphia area. The role focuses on delivering high standard service, knowledge sharing, and fostering innovation across projects.

You will lead budgeting, cost estimation, and cost control activities, working with project teams and clients to ensure successful outcomes and strong governance. Candidates should have extensive cost engineering experience and a background in pharmaceuticals.