Senior Cost Manager - Healthcare

Key Responsibilities

Core Deliverables

• Cost Planning & Tendering:

  • Develop true-up cost plans and present final versions to clients.
  • Manage Two-Stage tendering processes, including pre-qualification, tender lists, preliminaries and analysis.
  • Compile tender reports and contracted documentation.

• Contract & Post-Contract Management:

  • Track and address cost variances, fluctuations, and change orders.
  • Conduct accurate monthly valuations and post-contract cost reports for client presentation.
  • Handle final account negotiations.

• Compliance & Collaboration:

  • Ensure fidelity to contracts (JCT, NEC).
  • Manage value engineering and lifecycle costing inputs.
  • Serve as the Project’s SOX control contact, ensuring compliance with organizational regulations.

Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement

• Client & Consultant Facing:

  • Proactively engage with key stakeholders to align on objectives.
  • Exhibit judicial procurement management, spanning pre-qualification to contract finalisation.

• Team Development:

  • Lead and mentor junior cost managers, ensuring high performance and project accountability.

Key Experience Requirements

Technical & Sector-Specialism

✅ Essential:

• Hands-on expertise in Healthcare sector projects (preferred) OR Education sector projects (advantageous).
• Familiarity with Government and private sector procurement frameworks, including Two-Stage tendering and staged procurement.
• Contract knowledge: JCT, NEC experience critical.
• Capability to advise on public-sector risks, challenges and government policy impacts.

✅ Methods & Practices:

• Demonstrable proficiency with post-contract cost reporting and change control tracking.

• Experience in procurement management, covering pre-qualification, enquiries, vendor selection to contract awards.

• Final account negotiations (including PQA submissions, adjustment discussions).

• Knowledge of:

  • Lifecycle costing methodologies.
  • Value engineering and cost-optimisation techniques.
  • Contract administration (force-majeure, variations, extensions of time).

Technical Tools & Software

• Expertise with CostX measurement software or similar.

Qualifications & Professional Reception

• Degree preferred in:

  • Construction, Quantity Surveying, or Cost Management.

• MRICS qualification desirable but not mandatory (relevant experience may sufficient if missing certification).

• Technical Foundation:

• Strong grasp of:

  • Construction procurement practices.
  • Value Management principles.

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