# Cost Manager (CI&U - PMCM)

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Birmingham, West Midlands
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Cost Manager to join our Project Management and Commercial Management Team (PMCM) in Birmingham City Centre.

As a Cost Manager, you will play a pivotal role in pre- and post-contract Quantity Surveying (QS) or Cost & Commercial Management services to our clients, including estimating, cost planning, procurement, cost assurance, and post-contract financial/commercial management of projects.

Depending on seniority and experience, you could be involved in delivering QS/commercial projects, leading a QS/commercial team, training and mentoring staff, bid writing, winning work, people leadership and management, representing WSP UK at industry events, etc.

You will join a diverse, growing team of Quantity Surveyors, Cost Managers and Commercial Managers, and other related professionals who work across multiple sectors.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Provide QS/commercial services to clients, including estimating, cost planning, procurement, cost assurance, and post-contract financial/commercial management

- Lead or work as part of a QS/commercial team

- Train and mentor junior staff

- Contribute to bid writing and winning new work

- Represent WSP UK at industry events

**Requirements:**

- MRICS or Assoc RICS or working towards a professional qualification

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- Applicable knowledge, ability and experience around QS/Cost and Commercial competencies

- Demonstrable management, project leadership and delivery experience at senior level (where applicable)

**Desirable Skills:**

- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

- Adaptable and flexible approach to workload

- Alternative, relevant, professional qualification or working towards (e.g. CICES, AcostE)

- Demonstrable Quantity Surveying or Cost and Commercial Management experience in the public sector and/or experience on heavy industry projects

- Ability to travel from base office or home to site, client/project team offices, other WSP offices, and project locations

- Passionate about making a difference and wanting to be part of a dynamic team

- Degree or similar higher education academic qualification

- Proven organisational and time management skills

- Ability to challenge the status quo and try innovative solutions

- Familiarity or working knowledge of specialist software such as CostX and CEMAR

- Working knowledge/experience of NEC Contracts and other industry standard contract forms

- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders

- Previous experience of working in a QS/Cost and Commercial Management role in a consultant, contractor, or client organisation

## Skills

### Required
- Quantity Surveying
- Cost Management
- Commercial Management
- MRICS
- Assoc RICS

### Nice to have
- CICES
- AcostE
- CostX
- CEMAR
- NEC Contracts

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