Senior Cost Planner

Description

Reporting to the Commercial Director, you will effectively manage a team of surveyors and estimators, taking overall responsibility of a number of developments, including regeneration schemes and projects that have multiple phases. Effectively manage costs, ensure targets are met by managing and controlling the budget and valuations, including monthly updating of the estimated final costs, overall responsibility for all sub-contractor procedures and processes, and materials and goods if necessary,

• Identification and pricing of project specific risks and opportunities from outset; preparation of mitigation strategies and contingency advice to inform commercial appraisal
• Tracking and analysis of inflation indices to allow informed forecasts to be developed and held in cost plans
• Strategic management of supply chain - early engagement to drive greater cost certainty and up to date rates, tracking of supply chain exposure and management of relationships
• Benchmarking of cost data and design metrics across all projects to support cost planning and provide context to board of current schemes in pre-contract stages
• Drive consistency of all front-end activities that support and enhance commercial teams in procurement and ultimately securing smoother delivery
• Explore London specific cross regional standardisation and sharing of cost data, benchmarking, and design metrics to provide greater understanding of the wider market and what ‘excellent’ looks like. This would involve working with other regions to collaborate and share to benefit the wider business
• Upskill cost planning teams on presentation tools and cost plan templates to drive consistency and clearer understanding across the business of build cost data, risks, opportunities, design metrics and benchmarking
• Collation of final account data to understand historic risk expenditure and feeding this back to front end cost planning activities
• Support in the careful consideration of the golden thread and BSA gateway strategy for each project and tying this back to the project procurement strategy, identifying the correct supply chain that can truly deliver the requirements
• Management/oversee of front-end commercial operations including bidding, land purchase, cost planning, design control, budget management, supply chain management/engagement, procurement strategy, and support of procurement activities to point of contract
• Enhance collaboration with relevant departments including planning, buying, procurement, commercial and design management teams

Requirements

• Ability to support all stages of pre-contract design (typically RIBA stages 0-3) with the aim of optimising design efficiency and procurement activities all the way through to gateway approval.
• Early engagement of supply chain where unfamiliar risks are identified, and no in-house expertise exist

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance