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Senior Cost Manager

Cumming Group
Edinburgh, GBR
Full-time
Senior · 5+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 2 weeks ago

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Knowledge & Skills

  • Required:
  • Deliver results in a client facing role including:
  • Confidently respond to a client request; as well as understanding when to escalate client issues to senior members of the team.
  • Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery.
  • Ability to show resilience and resourcefulness in the face of highly complex challenges.
  • Commitment to outperforming client expectations.
  • Support stakeholder management.
  • Deal diplomatically with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment, subject to change.
  • Demonstrate flexibility in response to changing requirements and routines.
  • Demonstrate a high degree of integrity.
  • Show strong leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and manage teams including the supply chain.
  • Starting to manage conflicting priorities and organise workloads in conjunction with the appropriate Director.
  • Starting to prioritise and self-manage with ability to work in a high-pressure environment.
  • Preferred Education and Experience:
  • Ideally degree qualified: construction, cost management, engineering, quantity surveying or other RICS accredited degree.
  • MRICS / other equivalent qualification or experience.
  • Some formal leadership development training.
  • 5+ years’ experience.
  • Strong knowledge of construction industry technical matters.
  • Good experience of industry standard forms of contract, typically JCT and NEC.
  • Good pre and post contract technical cost management skills.
  • Good core technical skills.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills.
  • Strong IT skills for the role including MS Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint.
  • Developing interpersonal skills with both clients and staff. Good interpersonal skills with both client and staff
  • Good analytical skills, sound judgement and an aptitude for forward planning.
  • Energetic and motivated with natural drive and an innovative flair, resourcefulness and ability to adapt to change.
  • An ability to think clearly and make reasoned decisions, explaining the logic employed.
  • Some experience of managing people and delivering multiple or complex projects.
  • Cumming Group is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, "race" (includes nationality, national / ethnic origin, colour), marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender assignment, religion and belief.
  • Note for Recruitment Agencies:
  • We prefer to hire directly, and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release.

Qualifications

  • Confidently respond to a client request; as well as understanding when to escalate client issues to senior members of the team.
  • Provide innovative solutions to improve project delivery.
  • Ability to show resilience and resourcefulness in the face of highly complex challenges.
  • Commitment to outperforming client expectations.
  • Support stakeholder management.
  • Deal diplomatically with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment, subject to change.
  • Demonstrate flexibility in response to changing requirements and routines.
  • Demonstrate a high degree of integrity.
  • Show strong leadership skills and demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and manage teams including the supply chain.
  • Starting to manage conflicting priorities and organise workloads in conjunction with the appropriate Director.
  • Starting to prioritise and self-manage with ability to work in a high-pressure environment.
  • Ideally degree qualified: construction, cost management, engineering, quantity surveying or other RICS accredited degree.
  • MRICS / other equivalent qualification or experience.
  • Some formal leadership development training.
  • 5+ years’ experience.
  • Strong knowledge of construction industry technical matters.
  • Good experience of industry standard forms of contract, typically JCT and NEC.
  • Good pre and post contract technical cost management skills.
  • Good core technical skills.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills.
  • Strong IT skills for the role including MS Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint.
  • Developing interpersonal skills with both clients and staff. Good interpersonal skills with both client and staff
  • Good analytical skills, sound judgement and an aptitude for forward planning.
  • Energetic and motivated with natural drive and an innovative flair, resourcefulness and ability to adapt to change.
  • An ability to think clearly and make reasoned decisions, explaining the logic employed.
  • Some experience of managing people and delivering multiple or complex projects.
  • Cumming Group is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, "race" (includes nationality, national / ethnic origin, colour), marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender assignment, religion and belief.
  • We prefer to hire directly, and we will be in touch with our PSL Agencies if this role is eligible for release.

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