M&E Senior Cost Consultant

Currie & Brown is one of the leading international physical asset management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation and reputation with a genuine global office network.
Our people, from the first-day apprentice to senior management make our business what it is today. Everybody in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced they are, plays their own unique part in our success and have fun along the way.
The role – what is it we would like you to do?
Currie & Brown is seeking talented professionals to join our London-based team. The successful candidate will take a lead role in the delivery of cost consultancy services for one of our MEP team’s key clients, reporting to and being supported by the account director on unique projects within high-profile occupied buildings. The role will involve significant direct client exposure and time on the client site. The delivery of crisp, confident building advice will be a key deliverable. In addition, there will be opportunities to become involved in the wider project portfolio.
Our continuing success at winning new clients, expanding services to existing clients and an ambitious growth agenda creates career opportunities for people with the drive to help shape our future and be involved in stimulating and rewarding projects. Our MEP team wins and delivers an exceptionally high volume of work for clients. The roles in scope span the full spectrum of cost consultancy and contract administration services. Our people gain direct client-facing experience not typically available to MEP cost management professionals in traditional roles.
Your core duties will involve:
Leading the preparation of cost plans and estimates and supporting presentation documents from inception and feasibility stages onwards
Presenting the above, explaining and agreeing approaches to issues around project risks and uncertainties
Leading procurement activities and contract formation
Managing the entire post-contract delivery process
Undertaking general project strategy shaping and client handling
Preparing cost plans and estimates
Undertaking procurement of projects from start to finish including preparation of tender documentation
Managing work packages post-contract including change control and valuation, progress valuations, cost reports and final accounts
Providing crisp and focused cost advice and reporting
Conducting tender analysis for the purpose of contractor appointments and data capture for benchmarking and future cost plans
Assuming a leading role in setting objectives and priorities, working as a proactive team player
Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for the successful completion of projects and liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control
Representing and acting as an ambassador for the company in a professional and confidence-inspiring manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships
What skills and attributes are we looking for from you
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BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent
Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) would be ideal
Technical delivery experience gained within a global construction consultancy
Pre and post-contract experience including cost planning and procurement
Good technical writing, strong client-facing and communication skills
Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, self-starting, well-disciplined and commercially astute
A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful, and flexible.
Ability to take on a leadership role as part of personal development planning
NEC experience beneficial 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 everyday and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be fundamental in creating a successful work force.
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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