Associate Director - Estimating & Cost Advisory (Assurance & Advisory)

Description

• Support your chartership aspirations with RICS, ICE, AACE, ACostE or similar.
• Lead teams to produce and contribute your own input directly to delivery of high quality client deliverables, ranging from data analysis models to reports and informative dashboards or presentations.
• Line manage and lead the development of a high performing team based in your local office and/or a national location.
• Consult subject matter experts within our wider team to incorporate the best knowledge and information possible into our client deliverables.
• Stay connected with other leaders of the Estimating & Cost Advisory practice and ensure that client deliverables have been suitably reviewed and quality assured before release to clients and stakeholders.
• Focus on supporting win work activities (bids, proposals, etc.) to grow our portfolio and continuously improving the quality of our client deliverables.
• Communicate in a highly effective way key findings and recommendations to senior clients and wider stakeholders. Ensure that complex issues are made easy to understand and that messaging is astute, communicating difficult messages with a focus on how projects can improve.
• Lead assurance and advisory service delivery, focusing on reviewing major projects and niche projects across the UK and internationally, with a particular focus on capital costs.
• Inspire and mentor our early careers talent.
• Pivot across assurance reviews of various types, focusing on cost and project deliverability across the project lifecycle. Focus areas will range from early-stage feasibility design to detailed design, contract award, live delivery and project close-out.
• Review outputs of team members and provide guidance to them on projects to produce high quality deliverables, and to build their skills for future projects.

Requirements

• Be able to leverage client benchmarking data, in-house data and market data combined with the skills of your team to independently form a view of ‘should cost’, ‘could cost’, ‘will cost’ and ‘forecast cost to go / cost at completion’.
• Wider understanding of commercial and contractual requirements and the crossover to the impact on estimating or forecasting costs.
• Strong technical expertise in project development and delivery, with a specialism and demonstrable background in managing and understanding costs.
• A comprehensive knowledge of indirect costs, cost breakdown structures and techniques to analyse and assess project deliverability.
• A clear understanding of the role of consultancy organisations on projects, including the ability to be adaptable to work across multiple sectors and disciplines and have the drive to want to learn new skills.
• Working experience of input to or reviewing major project business cases, especially as part of assurance reviews feeding into stage gate decision points.
• Chartership with or demonstrably working towards RICS, ICE, AACE, ACostE or similar.
• A strong understanding of typical client approaches to applying contingency and global thought leadership in the area of cost estimating, cost forecasting and setting up projects (or resetting projects) for success.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills including being able to work seamlessly with designers, engineers, project managers and clients.

Benefits

• Flexible working to support a healthy work-life balance.
• A standout comprehensive benefit package.
• A variety of schemes and the opportunity to work across both UK and International markets.
• Allow you to grow your career through various routes within the business.
• An inclusive, diverse and welcoming team atmosphere!

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance