Intermediate Cost Intelligence Manager

Cumming Group is an international project and cost management consultancy delivering innovative solutions in construction, real estate, and infrastructure. With a commitment to collaboration, transparency, and performance excellence, we support some of the world’s most respected clients across a diverse range of sectors.

• Provide day-to-day delivery support for projects and demonstrate the ability to take on tasks without supervision.
• Strengthen our service delivery capability and promote knowledge capture, sharing, and innovation.
• Prepare budget estimates, cost plans, cost reports and client reports.
• Provide cost assurance services through data analysis, data cleansing, estimating, and benchmarking.
• Prepare cost and benchmark estimates.
• Prepare cost rates, cost models and engineering definitions.
• Support the preparation of bespoke cost hierarchies, cost breakdowns and methods of measurement.
• Maintain dashboard reports for external clients.
• Provide input and assistance for data capture, storage, analysis and reporting.
• Manage cost database maintenance and development.
• Develop costing tools.
• Support and maintain internal cost intelligence database systems.
• Monitor industry and economic cost trends and maintain index register.
• Deliver all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner to a high standard of quality.
• Support the implementation of strategic initiatives at service and sector levels.
• Undertake service delivery in accordance with business policies, particularly Health and Safety and Quality Assurance.
• Provide services in compliance with the client’s corporate governance procedures where applicable.
• Achieve all objectives as required by the annual performance review process.
• Demonstrate a commitment to continuing professional development and continuous improvement.
• Work to deadlines set by the Project Team Leader.
• Ensure filing of project correspondence is maintained in accordance with requirements.
• Assist in mentoring and supporting team members, ensuring staff and new starters are developed to support business growth and career development.
• Administer change control processes for the services we provide.
• Populate and submit accurate timesheets with useful descriptions weekly.
• Support the delivery of work through proactive involvement where appropriate and through performance management of personnel to ensure work is completed in a timely manner to a high-quality standard.

• Diplomatically deal with a wide range of stakeholders in a flexible environment subject to change.
• Cope with demanding and changing time frames.
• Strong team worker, able to contribute own thoughts and ideas.
• Work independently and provide progress updates.
• Dependable in high pressure situations.
• Passionate about adding value to cost intelligence services.
• Comfortable working with multiple sources of data and information.
• Driven to continuously improve and provide innovative solutions.
• Present complex information to a variety of audiences, including senior management.
• Self-learner and able to share knowledge verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrate a high degree of integrity.
• Prioritise and self-manage with ability to work in a high-pressure environment.
• Manage conflicting priorities and organise workloads in conjunction with team.
• Provide support to the junior team members.
• Deliver results in a client-facing role.

• Ideally degree qualified in construction, cost management, engineering, quantity surveying or another RICS accredited degree.
• RICS/MRICS/CaSA or equivalent qualification or experience.
• Good core technical skills.
• Highly motivated, conscientious and inquisitive.
• Strong ability in handling and investigating data, identifying trends, patterns and data anomalies.
• Objective, evidence-based decision-making skills.
• Good interpersonal, team building and staff/client relationship skills.
• Good analytical skills, sound judgement and aptitude for forward planning.
• Energetic and motivated with natural drive and innovative flair, resourcefulness and adaptability.
• Clear thinking and reasoned decision-making, explaining logic employed.
• Strong oral and written communication and…