- To conduct feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
- Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan
- Tendering and procuring, including managing the pre-qualification stage, producing the tender list, putting the preliminaries together, tender analysis, producing the tender report and compiling the contractual documents
- Dealing effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes, where applicable referring major changes to line manager
- Responsibility for making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and in all cases ensuring that timely and accurate cost checking and valuation takes place
- Producing monthly post contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
- Inputting into value engineering. Negotiating and agreeing final accounts
- Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages
- Assisting in the production of bid documentation
- Identifying ways in which cost management procedures, templates and products can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager
- Knowledge management – Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is input into the internal database
- Financial management – Keeping track of the ongoing margin levels
- Process improvement – Identifying ways in which internal systems and processes can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager