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Associate Director – Cost Management
Location: Frankfurt
Type: Permanent / Hybrid
Salary: Highly Competitive and Package
Language: Fluent German /B2 minimum.
Responsible for all aspects of cost management and project delivery across our Real Estate, Life Science and IST sectors. We are seeking a driven and motivated Associate Director (Cost Manager) to act as a leader, managing cost management professionals within larger teams and delivering successful outcomes for their clients. You will support the management direction and leadership of the Cost Management stream and other business development related activity.
Responsibilities:
- Leading a Cost Management team, ensuring they deliver on all
- Taking a leading role in interfacing with the client, stakeholders, and other consultants, at all project
- Manage the review and participate with the design services team and general contractor, in the development of the cost estimates.
- Manage and reconcile changes that occur over the design
- Communicate and/ or meet with general contractor, design team and client to receive design information in a timely manner to prepare a cost estimate update.
- Prepare responses to the General Contractor’s submissions of tender submissions, payment applications, etc. Coordinate all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers direct from NPA, subs, quantities from A/Es.
- Inform and drive value engineering solutions based on cost
- Manage and provide estimate and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost
- Work proactively, working with relevant scheduling staff, with minimal supervision to resolve resourcing/ scheduling issues.
- Manage cost checks and carry out payment recommendations, supporting staff as Complete timely, accurate cost checking and valuation processes.
- Manage and participate effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control
- Manage cost impact / contingency management and commitment tracking
Job Objectives:
- Commissions are managed to the right quality standards and are completed efficiently and on
- Service delivery on commissions is in line with the scope of service for the
- Strong relationships are developed with existing and new clients, consultants, contractors and colleagues.
- The team is effectively
- Line management responsibilities are effectively
- Business development opportunities are explored with new and existing clients, including cross- selling opportunities, are identified and acted upon.
- Margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts are kept track of on all
- Key information and data are effectively cascaded and appropriately
Qualifications
- Solid technical experience in all cost management areas; planning, estimating, pre-contract post contract and final account.
- Demonstrates excellent presentation, verbal, written, and communication
- Ability to estimate at conceptual, feasibility and detailed
- Understand cost (labour, plant, materials) as well as cashflow, commitments and overall project
- Experience preparing Cost Management estimates and
For more information, please reach me on: steven.waters@prsjobs.com
Steven Waters