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 diverse range of sectors. Essential Duties & Responsibilities: • Assume 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. • Preparation of cost and benchmark estimates. • Preparation of cost rates, cost models and engineering definitions. • Manager preparation of bespoke cost hierarchies, cost breakdowns and methods of measurements. • Produce dashboard reports for external clients. • Manage data capture, storage, analysis and reporting. • Cost database management and maintenance. • Costing tools development. • Manage the 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 level. • Ensure service delivery in accordance with the policies and procedures of the business, 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. • Ensuring filing of project correspondence is maintained in accordance with requirements. • Mentor and support team members, ensuring that staff and new starters are developed to support the successful growth of the business and development of their career. • Ensure change control processes for the services we provide. • Populate and submit accurate timesheets with useful descriptions weekly. • Manage 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. • Support the forecast of work through proactive management of the CI Programme. • Provide leadership to the staff, where required. Resolve conflicts of priorities and personalities relating to work with the appropriate Associate or Director. • Provide costed risk, Monte Carlo simulations and optimism bias assessments. • Contribute to bid and tender preparation and business development. Knowledge & Skills Required: • Communicate effectively and able to negotiate confidently with all levels of internal and external stakeholders. • Cope with demanding and changing timeframes. • Excellent team worker able to contribute own thoughts and ideas. • Able to 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. • Ability to 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 the appropriate Director • Lead a team • Able to deliver results in a client facing role. • Create a close-knit team Preferred Education and Experience: • Preferably degree qualified: construction, cost management, engineering, quantity surveying or other RICS accredited degree. • RICES/MRICS/CaSA other equivalent qualification or experience. • Excellent core technical skills. • Highly motivated, conscientious and inquisitive. • Excellent ability in handling and investigating data with an ability to identify trends, patterns and data anomalies and suggest possible next steps. • Objective, evidence-based decision-making skills. • Strong interpersonal and team building skills. • Strong interpersonal skills with both staff and clients. • Strong analytical skills, sound judgement and aptitude for forward planning. • Energetic and motivated with natural drive and an innovative flair, resourcefulness and ability to adapt to change. • Strong ability to think clearly and make reasoned decisions, explaining the logic employed. • Excellent oral and written communication and developing presentation skills. • Excellent knowledge of construction industry technical matters with circa 5 years plus post qualification experience. • Good awareness of construction contracts and best practice within the industry. • Advanced IT skills including MS 365 with a good understanding of Excel and automating processes. • Good awareness and experience of cost estimating systems, project databases and measurement systems. • Meticulous in reviewing and validating cost data, ensuring accuracy and identifying discrepancies to maintain data integrity. • Experience of managing people and delivering multiple or complex projects. Cumming Group is committed to creating a diverse workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All job applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, "race" (includes nationality, national / ethnic origin, colour), marriage & civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, gender assignment, religion and belief. Note for Recruitment Agencies: We prefer to hire directly, and we