Description

As a Cost Management Director, you will oversee complex construction projects, ensuring accurate cost planning and procurement while leading teams and maintaining client relationships. This role involves producing detailed estimates, managing variances, and identifying new business opportunities.

Requirements

• •Broad experience in pre-contract cost planning and estimating
• •Practical expertise and best practice experience
• •Comfortable in a client-facing role
• •Degree in Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Construction Management, or related field
• •Minimum of 10 years' experience in cost management
• •Experience leading cost management commissions for large construction projects
• •Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters
• •People management experience in project delivery
• •Sound technical experience in all cost management areas
• •Good understanding of mechanical, process, electrical, and plumbing systems
• •Experience in the German construction industry with knowledge of contractual documentation
• •English skills required, fluent German preferred
• •Excellent presentation, verbal, written, and communication skills
• •Sound organisational skills and ability to multi-task
• •Working knowledge of MS Office software and modern cost management digital tools

Tasks

• •Provide estimate and cost planning
• •Estimate costs at conceptual, programming, and detailed levels
• •Compile feasibility studies
• •Prepare procurement reports
• •Manage all aspects of procurement
• •Produce tender lists and analyze tenders
• •Create tender reports and compile contractual documents
• •Manage post-contract cost variances and change control processes
• •Conduct cost checks and valuation deliverables on larger projects
• •Produce and present monthly cost reports to clients
• •Lead value engineering initiatives and negotiate final accounts
• •Maintain liaison with clients and consultants throughout project stages
• •Provide leadership to cost management teams
• •Identify new business development opportunities
• •Implement improvements for cost management procedures and templates

Tools & Technologies