Senior - Associate Cost Manager
Real Estate Construction
Tunbridge Wells, TN1
Permanent | Full-time | Hybrid working
About this opportunity
We're searching for an experienced chartered quantity surveying professional to join our Tunbridge Wells office as Senior - Associate Cost Manager. You'll join a diverse group of cost & project professionals from apprentices & graduates to senior directors providing specialist services to public & private sector clients across Kent, East Sussex and London.
If you're a senior quantity surveyor / cost manager, this is an excellent opportunity to take your next career step, take on new responsibilities and secure a role with a clear career pathway. You'll have opportunities to take the lead on major programmes with key clients, manage a junior team, and take an active role in local business or specific sector growth.
Joining our Tunbridge Wells team as Senior / Associate Cost Manager, you'll benefit from:
- Support from an experienced senior team to maximise your success
- A lead position with opportunities to take on new challenges & responsibilities
- Career development opportunities with regular career check ins and career progression pathways
- Hybrid and flexible working provisions to support work / life balance
- Varied project & clients, spanning local schemes, national frameworks and global organisations
- A range of resources and support provisions from our central teams, sector specialists and regional leads
- A competitive salary with a comprehensive benefits package including health & travel benefits, professional subscriptions & a range of discounted services & perks
As senior / associate level Cost Manager, you'll be responsible for managing costs and budgets of construction projects, including new builds, renovations and maintenance works – from early cost advice to settlement of the final account.
Additional responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Supporting Business Unit Directors in delivering business objectives.
- Positively engaging with Customers and developing, growing and maintaining Customer relationships.
- Delivering high quality services and ensuring that cost management deliverables meet Customers’ requirements.
- Managing projects to deliver high quality services and deliverables in accordance with the business procedures.
- Preparing and presenting order of cost estimates and option studies.
- Cost planning.
- Cost-in-use studies.
- Advising on and implementing procurement strategies.
- Preparing tender documentation and managing the tender process, including designing tender marking schemes.
- Evaluating and reporting on tenders.
- Valuing completed work and arranging for payments.
- Settling final accounts.
- Providing technical advice on legal and contractual issues relating to construction projects.
- Administrating contracts as Contract Administrator or Employer’s Agent.
- Producing and presenting reports to Customers.
- Mentoring and coaching employees to their full potential.
- Identifying new business development opportunities and driving growth across the Business Units activities.
- Preparing bids for services.
- Managing service delivery for profit.
- Advising Directors promptly of any issues that have arisen, or that might arise, on projects; in particular those that might impact on Gleeds professional indemnity (PI) insurance
As a Gleeds team member, you will have access to:
- Opportunities to develop and grow your career
- A contributory pension scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Our Global Travel Scholarship Programme
- Flexible working arrangements