Senior Cost Manager

04 ago - Milano
Cumming Group

Cumming Group is an international project and cost management consultancy delivering innovative solutions in construction, real estate, and infrastructure. With a commitment to collaboration, transparency, and performance excellence, we support some of the world's most respected clients across diverse range of sectors.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

- Assume day-to-day delivery responsibility for projects and demonstrate the ability to take on tasks with minimal supervision.

- Strengthen our service delivery capability and promote knowledge capture, sharing and innovation.

- Prepare budget estimates, cost plans and client reports.

- Provide risk and value management.

- Contract administration including preparation of valuations, forecasts, cost reports and attendance at project meetings.

- Preparation of bills of quantities, schedules of rates, or other methods of work evaluation.

- Deliver all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner to a high standard of quality.

- Manage the delivery of work through proactive involvement where appropriate and through performance management of personnel to ensure work is completed in a timely manner to a high-quality standard.

- Undertake service delivery is in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Practice, particularly Health and Safety and Quality Assurance.

- Provide services in compliance with the client's corporate governance procedures where applicable.

- Achieve all objectives as required by the annual performance review process.

- Work to deadlines set by the Project Team Leader.

- Filing of project correspondence in accordance with requirements.

- Support bid and tender preparation and business development.

- Develop our business; networking and developing client relationships.

- Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and continuous improvement.





- Administer change control processes for the services we provide.

- Provide advice on procurement and contracts.

- Prepare and evaluating tenders, contractor selection and contract documentation.

- Support the implementation of strategic initiatives at service and sector level.

- Assist in providing leadership to the staff, where required. Resolve conflicts of priorities and personalities relating to work with the appropriate Director or Associate.

- Assist in mentoring and coaching team members, ensuring that staff and new starters are developed to support the successful growth of the Practice and development of their career.

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.

- Lead 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.

- 5-10 years’ experience.

- Strong knowledge of construction industry technical matters.

- Good experience of industry standard forms of contract.

- 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.

- 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.

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