Senior Cost Manager

🌟 Position: Senior Cost Manager London/Suffolk

📍 Location: Hybrid with 2-3 office days alternating between London and Suffolk

💼 Type: Full-time

📅 Start Date: Immediate

💰 Salary: Competitive

We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Cost Manager to join a dynamic, award-winning team. Our client is delivering one of the most complex and high-profile infrastructure programmes in the UK today. Backed by UK Government and key industry stakeholders, the organisation is entering a pivotal phase of development: securing funding, finalising strategic partnerships across the supply chain, and progressing the regulatory and commercial frameworks required to move into full-scale construction.

As a Senior Cost Manager, you’ll play a key role within a nationally significant infrastructure programme that will shape the UK’s long-term energy landscape. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a landmark project from the inside out—driving value, ensuring commercial rigour, and supporting delivery at scale within a highly regulated, technically complex environment.

About us: CMR is first and foremost a team of people, passionate about the construction industry and changing the way project controls is provided. We are a progressive & dynamic consultancy offering tailored project controls services across a range of industries.

Our Purpose (Why we exist): Inspiring new ways to help shape our construction industry.

Our Ambition (What we want to achieve): Re-imagine project controls through a digital lens, being the obvious choice for clients and the place to grow together with intention.

🔹 What’s in it for you?

· At CMR you will have the opportunity to professionally develop like nowhere you have worked before.

· If you demonstrate the capability, our merit based system will enable you to develop fast.

· We use our in-house capability matrix to transparently track your progression and highlight development areas.

· Join our small, dynamic team where every member has the chance to make a significant impact, shaping the future direction of our company and making a real difference.

· We believe in rewarding our team for their achievements, celebrating our successes but equally helping each other when things are tough.

🔹 You'll

· Drive the cost performance monitoring and reporting for the Programme including trend and EV analysis associated with key commitments and expenditures.

· Have responsibility for the collation and analysis of Programme Cost Information in accordance with the Cost Management Policy and Procedures.

· Managing contract change effectively, ensuring that projects remain within governance and adopt best practice.

· Driving improvements in the accuracy of forecasts and budgets

· Assurance and review of Contractor Cost submissions, with the ability to challenge information where required to ensure realistic project updates.

🔹 About You

Essential

· Ability to communicate cost and performance information to peers/managers

· Good attention to detail and skilled in interpreting and analysing cost data.

· Experience of identifying, analysing, and solving problems.

· Strong understanding/ working knowledge of Earned Value Methodologies

· Experienced in working within Project Controls in a Major Programme environment

· Strong understanding/ working knowledge of Cost engineering/ forecasting tools (such as PRISM/ EcoSys/ Cobra)

Desirable skill:

· Knowledge of engineering, procurement, forms of contracts and construction generally

· Knowledge of engineering and construction management customarily acquired over time through specialised instruction or practical experience.

· Knowledge of risk / schedule functions and understanding of interface with cost.

· Educated to professional standard and membership of an appropriate body and to degree level or equivalent.

🔹 At CMR we have a strong culture driven by our 9 Core Principles. We look to build a community of people that have the same beliefs as we do! You can find out more about us here: https://cmr.london/who-we-are/

📍 Requirements and Location:

· Full right to work in the UK

· Hybrid with 2-3 office days alternating between London and Suff