Associate Cost Manager - Public Sector

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As an Associate Cost Manager within AECOM’s London Cost Management Team, you will be responsible for leading and managing medium to large-scale built environment and construction projects from initiation to completion, ensuring their successful delivery while continuing to develop your specialised knowledge.

Your role will involve overseeing significant phases of projects, guiding junior team members, and fostering client and consultant relationships. Additionally, you will support business development activities and contribute to AECOM's team and organisational growth.

We are looking for a Cost Manager with significant experience in delivering high-quality public sector work, with a particular focus on Science, Healthcare and Tertiary Education. Someone with a proven track record who has a focus on stakeholder management, quality, cost control, and timely delivery. You will be responsible for managing project teams, contractors, and suppliers, ensuring all works are carried out in line with client requirements, budgets, and timelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and Deliver: Drive project delivery on our cost management commissions to meet time, budget, and quality requirements, while fostering collaboration among clients, consultants, contractors, and team members.
• Client-Centric Excellence: Strengthen client relationships by delivering an exceptional service, aligning project outcomes with client objectives and contributing to the business’ growth.
• Team Leadership and Development: Mentor and support junior members of our team in their career development, contribute to talent development initiatives and champion a positive, high-performance team culture.
• Industry Engagement and Growth: Support bids and business development activities, engage with industry forums and networking events, and take ownership of your professional growth and knowledge-sharing within the organisation.

Skills and Experiences

• Experience and technical knowledge in cost management within the built environment or construction industry.
• Strong communication and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects, workstreams and stakeholders.
• Demonstrate leadership potential and good client relationship management.
• Passionate about delivering high-quality consulting services, and comfortable in the role of consultant.
• Be proactive, solution-oriented and adaptable to changing circumstances
• Ability to support the development of colleagues, particularly towards professional qualifications (e.g., RICS, CIOB).

If you meet some, but not all, of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would still be delighted to hear from you.

Qualifications

Professional accreditation (e.g. RICS, CIOB) achieved or commitment to achieve one

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We are friendly, busy and motivated with an established track record of successfully delivering local and overseas projects. Some of our flagship work in recent years includes;

Battersea Power Station, Bloomberg, UCL Marshgate, Lots Road, Palace of Westminster, 22 Bishopsgate to name a few.

As part of AECOM’s London and South-East Cost Management team, you will join a diverse group of 120+ Cost Managers at various stages of their careers. Operating from our London (Aldgate) and our Oxford offices, we work in a wider variety of sectors, including Commercial, Residential, Government & Defense, Life Science, Healthcare, Tertiary Education and Infrastructure.

• Flexibility and Growth: Benefit from flexible working through our Freedom to Grow policy, as well as tailored training, mentoring, and leadership opportunities to advance your career.
• Rewards and Benefits: Enjoy a competitive pension scheme, company share incentive plan, and additional support for long-term success (such as award-winning armed forces support and other internal support networks).
• Diverse Opportunities: Work on a wide range of projects with global clients, including potential for international assignments.
• Inclusive Culture: Join a strong, collaborative team with regular social events and opportunities to give back through Social Value initiatives, including two CSR days annually.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours. We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.