Senior Cost Consultant

About The Role

Due to our continued growth and success, Currie & Brown’s London Cost Management Team is excited to be recruiting a number of Senior Cost Consultants to join our friendly, supportive, and ambitious team.

If you’re ready to take the next step in your career, this opportunity provides the perfect platform for growth, development, and progression. You’ll work on high-profile projects, be supported by industry-leading experts, and have the chance to contribute to shaping the future of the built environment.

Let’s grow together—your career journey starts here with Currie & Brown.

Your core duties will involve:

• Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to our clients
• Delivering projects, commissions and professional assignments
• Leading commercial management services with limited supervision
• Driving value engineering and value management initiatives.
• Assume a leading role within the team and foster a collaborative, innovative environment where talent can thrive
• Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for the successful completion of projects
• Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
• Liaising with other managers to ensure good resource allocation and efficient financial control
• Providing support to the team leader/service leaders in cost management of projects
• Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships

What skills and attributes are we looking for from you

• BSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent
• Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
• Awareness of sustainability requirements, the need for carbon reduction, carbon assessments and option studies
• Data Skills including preparing cost analyses, benchmarking and dashboard and smart reporting
• Public/private sector experience – ideally experience gained from some of the following: new build, cut & carve, refurbishment and fit out – offices, healthcare, residential, hospitality, major projects, government and leisure & retail
• Pre and post-contract experience
• Proficient CostX or other Cost Planning software
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute
• A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible

About You

About Us

Why choose Currie & Brown?

Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people’s futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage – providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.

We don’t offer just a job we offer a career with clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.

We are an international industry leader – Working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally-led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the world’s most prestigious projects and for some of the world’s top clients.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be taken seriously. Diverse people, backgrounds and experiences develop the most innovative of ideas, they are essential to our success, that is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. 

With the backing of our parent company, we are a truly independent business. Our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions, as well as work directly with some of the world’s brightest partner brands in our industry through Dar Group.

We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.

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