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About the Role
This client-facing role offers the opportunity to lead cost management activities across a significant portfolio of workplace, refurbishment, fit-out, and capital projects for a major corporate occupier account. You will partner directly with senior client stakeholders and project teams, ensuring robust financial governance, cost certainty, and value optimization from project inception to completion.
Responsibilities
- Lead all cost management activities across a portfolio of workplace, fit-out, refurbishment and capital projects.
- Develop and manage project budgets, cost plans and financial forecasts.
- Provide strategic commercial advice to client stakeholders and project teams.
- Prepare feasibility estimates, benchmarking studies and procurement strategies.
- Manage tender processes, contractor evaluations and appointment recommendations.
- Oversee contract administration under JCT and NEC forms of contract.
- Review valuations, variations, change controls and final accounts.
- Ensure robust commercial governance and financial reporting across the account.
- Identify project risks and opportunities and implement appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Drive value engineering initiatives while maintaining project quality and programme objectives.
- Produce accurate monthly cost reports and programme-wide financial updates.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with client representatives, consultants and contractors.
- Support business growth opportunities within the account and wider Occupier Services team.
- Mentor and develop junior Cost Management professionals within the team.
Requirements
- MRICS qualified (mandatory).
- Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying or a related discipline.
- Consultancy experience within the real estate, construction or property sector.
- Strong experience delivering corporate occupier, commercial office, workplace, fit-out or refurbishment projects.
- Excellent understanding of cost planning, procurement and contract administration.
- Experience working within large-scale corporate real estate programmes.
- Knowledge of JCT and NEC forms of contract.
- Experience working in a multi-disciplinary consultancy environment.
- Strong commercial acumen and analytical skills.
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and priorities.
- Excellent communication and client-facing skills.
- Candidates must have the unrestricted right to work in the UK.
- Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Skills
- Cost planning
- Procurement
- Contract administration
- Commercial acumen
- Analytical skills
- Stakeholder management
- Communication skills
- Client-facing skills
Location
- Central London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying or a related discipline
- MRICS qualified
Benefits
- Structured career progression
- Learning opportunities
- Professional qualifications
- Internal mobility
- Competitive benefits
- Flexible working approaches
- Paid volunteering days
About the Company
- Colliers is a global diversified professional services and investment management company operating through three industry-leading businesses: Commercial Real Estate, Engineering and Investment Management.
- With greater than a 30-year track record of consistent growth and strong recurring cash flows, we scale complementary, high-value businesses that provide essential services across the full asset lifecycle.
- Our unique partnership philosophy empowers exceptional leaders, preserves our entrepreneurial culture, and ensures meaningful inside ownership – driving strong alignment and sustained value creation for our shareholders.
- With $6 billion in annual revenues, 28,000 professionals, and $110 billion in assets under management, Colliers is committed to accelerating the success of our clients, investors, and people worldwide.
Equal Opportunity
- The business actively promotes an inclusive culture where different perspectives are valued and encouraged.