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About the Role
As a Senior Cost Manager at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams, gaining vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset, and expand your perspective. We empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility, fostering career progression with mentorship from industry leaders and providing the tools to grow. You will contribute to business strategy and build lasting trusted relationships with teams and clients.
Responsibilities
- Actively participate in the tender/bid process, from initial documentation through analysis and reporting.
- Manage the change management process, including identifying, analyzing, approving, and implementing changes affecting project cost.
- Analyze tenders/bids to ensure client value for money.
- Assist in the preparation and agreement of final accounts, including handling claims to ensure client value.
- Create estimates and cost plans for key client developments.
- Oversee project spend by creating valuations and cost reports, and communicating variations.
- Support project management and decision-making through cost documentation and timely communication.
- Support the settlement of construction disputes/loss and expense claims with transparency.
- Foster employee performance and growth through mentorship and leadership.
Requirements
- Experience as a Senior Cost Manager, ideally from a consultancy background.
- Experience in pre-contract cost management.
- Experience in budget control and cost planning.
- Experience preparing and initiating change forms for discussion with project stakeholders.
- Knowledgeable on alternative construction materials.
- Interested in monthly travel to the U.S.
- Chartered or on the path to becoming chartered.
- Excellent communicator verbally and in writing.
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment, managing priorities and deadlines.
- Ability to build strong relationships with team and clients.
Skills
- Cost management
- Tender/bid process participation
- Change management
- Budget control
- Cost planning
- Estimating
- Valuations
- Cost reporting
- Claim settlement
- Mentorship
- Leadership
- Communication
Location
- U.S. (monthly travel)
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree or comparable experience in a project management or construction discipline
- Chartered (or on the path to completion)
About the Company
- Linesight is a successful global project and cost management consultancy.
- We focus on fresh thinking and what matters, leading to our evolution.
- We work in exciting, innovative sectors with prestigious companies, delivering major projects for a sustainable built environment.
- We have an open culture and a flat structure, treating people with care, respect, and empathy.
- Discover the power of team with Linesight.
Equal Opportunity
- Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices.
- We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on a safe culture.
- We ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation during the application/recruitment process and in the workplace.
- If assistance or accommodation is required, please mention this in your application.