Ridge and Partners LLP
Senior Cost Manager
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Are you an experienced Cost Manager looking to make a real impact within the UK's infrastructure sector?
We are expanding our commercial team and are seeking a Senior Cost Manager to support the delivery of major infrastructure programmes, with a particular focus on the Water and Environment sector.
The role can be based from any of our offices: Cardiff, Bristol, London, Winchester, Reading, Oxford, Cheltenham, Cambridge, Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle.
What you need to do to be effective in this role
- Lead the commercial and cost management delivery of complex programmes and projects from inception through to completion.
- Manage project commercial performance, risk, and opportunities.
- Prepare and manage cost plans, estimates, and benchmarks, applying whole-life costing principles where appropriate.
- Administer and take accountability for NEC3/NEC4 contracts, supporting both pre-contract and post-contract commercial activities.
- Lead cost assurance and governance activities, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and compliance with client requirements.
- Provide data-driven cost and commercial insight to support informed decision-making.
- Produce high-quality commercial reporting, including performance metrics, earned value management (EVM), and outturn cost analysis.
- Contribute to bid submissions, framework opportunities, and work-winning activities where required.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, delivery partners, and industry stakeholders.
- Support business growth through networking, market engagement, and identifying new opportunities.
- Assist with developing Cost Managers towards professional qualification status.
- Actively contribute to a positive, collaborative, and high-performing team culture.
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- Significant infrastructure experience, with a strong focus on the Water and Environment sector (this is essential), other sectors are also desirable (energy, transport, defence).
- Experience delivering cost management services across major infrastructure projects and programmes.
- Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
- Candidates will be associate or full members of RICS (or an appropriate professional institution) or be committed to obtaining chartered status.
- Have both site and office-based experience on a variety of infrastructure projects.
- Successful applicants will have a strong knowledge of pre and post-contractual administration of the NEC3/NEC4 forms of contract. NEC Accredited is desired but not essential.
- A collaborative mindset with a proactive, solution-oriented approach to problem-solving.
- The aspiration to join a growing team where the prospect of contributing to something new excites you.
- Have an understanding and have used cost software including, but not limited to, CostX, CEMAR, etc.
- Understand the Construction Playbook, Value Toolkit, Project 13, and Public Procurement regulations.
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