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Senior Cost Manager

Employer
MJH Recruitment Solutions
Location
Central London
Salary
£60k - 75k per year + Benefits
Closing date
31 Jul 2019

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Job Details

Based out of a vibrant office space in Central London, our client, a well established PQS consultancy, is a urgently requiring two experienced cost managers (preferably with Cost X experience) to play an important part within their cost planning and post contract services on various high end residential / mixed use projects from £20m to c£150m. Reporting to a Senior Associate, your principled role is to deliver, with a high degree of autonomy, cost management services to a variety of clients on a first point of contact basis.

Key Responsibilities

  • Prepare cost plans, feasibility studies, tender documentation and pre-tender estimates.
  • Provide advice on procurement and contracts with internal support
  • Attending client, site and design team meetings throughout the life of each project and actively contribute at these meetings
  • Prepare robust contract documentation, including letters of intent, for execution by our clients and their main contractors. 
  • Actively carry  out the post contract quantity surveying activities on schemes, including:
  • Preparing cost reports and discussing them with the clients project manager prior to submission.
  • Agreeing monthly valuations with the main contractors.
  • Valuing scheme variations.
  • Agreeing scheme final accounts
  • Analysing scheme construction costs for the client’s taxation purposes
  • Manage relationships with various people, including clients, project architects, services engineers, project managers, suppliers, contractors, as well as the internal teams
  • Actively support business objectives and deliver value for money in all circumstances
  • Act as a mentor to support and provide guidance to more junior members of staff within the team (at Senior level)

Skills required

  • Applies knowledge and experience intelligently to produce high quality work, practical and commercial solutions which meet client objectives
  • Communicates clearly and concisely to clients on a range of complex issues and has the ability to produce high quality reports
  • Manages multiple projects at any given time and delivers work steadily and within stated deadlines
  • Contributes own views and ideas in a confident manner
  • Identifies opportunities to add value
  • Ability to talk knowledgably around the residential market in London

 Experience and qualifications

  • Working towards RICS (with minimum 3 years PQS experince to date) or MRICS qualified
  • Both pre and post contract skills and experience, with a focus on cost planning
  • Developing / extensive residential and mixed use experience
  • Experience of  managing/working on multiple projects at any given time
  • COST X experience advantageous

If required, our client will also consider an interim appointment (min 6 months term) but candidates will 100% require the right experience and qualifications to be considered in the first instance. Day rate to £300 to max. 400 per day. (dependent on experience)

On a permanent basis, our client are offering a generous salary + benefits including a discretionary bonus, private medical cover, pension, season ticket loan.

 

At mjhr it’s simple. Outstanding client relations and recruitment expertise, choose the experts… we make things happen. If you have the necessary skills to meet this specification, drop us a line for a confidential chat on 0207 932 0090

Company

Since 2000 MJH Recruitment has specialised in recruiting for the building and surveying industry. We pride ourselves on providing an exemplary recruitment service and matching top notch consultancy clients with talented job seekers.

Over the past 17 years, our focus has never changed: we hunt out candidates of the highest calibre in the following specialities:

  • Project Managers
  • Quantity Surveyors / Cost Consultants
  • Building Surveyors

The majority of our appointments are in London and across the South East and we work with the following types of businesses:

  • Professional quantity surveying practices (PQS)
  • Building consultancies
  • Project management specialists
  • Multidisciplinary consultancies

Why us?

Our knowledge of the construction consultancy industry is second to none and we have nurtured longstanding relationships with the brightest and the best.

With mjhr it’s simple. Outstanding customer relations and unrivalled recruitment expertise, choose the experts.

MJH Recruitment Solutions is a fully compliant corporate member of the recruitment employment confederation (No. 00068790) and as such upholds a strict code of recruiting ethics and conduct. We are also a member of the construction body of the Recruitment Employment Confederation and we are also a member of the Institute of Recruitment Professionals (No: 00075263).    

You can contact us on 0207 932 0090 or please visit www.mjhrecruitment.com

We make things happen.

Company info
Website
Telephone
0207 932 0090
Location
7 New Quebec St
Marylebone
London
London
W1H 7RH
GB

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