Job Description
All About Us
Currie & Brown is seeking talented professionals to join our London-based team at chartered, senior and associate level.
Our continuing success at winning new clients, expanding services to existing clients and an ambitious growth agenda creates career opportunities for people with the drive to help shape our future and be involved in stimulating and rewarding projects.
Our MEP team wins and delivers an exceptionally high volume of work for clients. The roles in scope span the full spectrum of cost consultancy and contract administration services. Our people gain direct client-facing experience not typically available to MEP cost management professionals in traditional roles, including:
- Leading the preparation of cost plans and estimates and supporting presentation documents from inception and feasibility stages onwards
- Presenting the above, explaining and agreeing approaches to issues around project risks and uncertainties
- Leading procurement activities and contract formation
- Acting in the role of contract administrator
- Managing the entire post-contract delivery process
- Undertaking general project strategy shaping and client handling
Our roles come with generous remuneration and benefits, and outstanding personal development opportunities. This high-profile team interfaces with the wider business, with direct access to key individuals and clients.
Focused on environmental and zero carbon initiatives, we provide impactful and value-add advice to our colleagues and clients through project delivery and research.
Examples of our appointments include:
- Cost management and contract administration services for a leading premium brand retail client on its engineering infrastructure programme. We have helped deliver tens of millions of pounds of work over the course of a relationship established for more than a decade.
- Cost management of data centre projects within the UK and Europe for technical real estate developers and other recognisable global technology companies.
- Cost management of several sophisticated landmark acute hospital schemes. Our healthcare team is one of the leading cost and strategic advisory consultants in the UK and has a growing portfolio of appointments all requiring best-in-class MEP cost management.
The successful candidate will take a lead role in the delivery of cost consultancy services for one of our MEP team's key clients, reporting to and being supported by the account director on unique projects within high-profile occupied buildings. The role will involve significant direct client exposure and time on the client site. The delivery of crisp, confident building advice will be a key deliverable. In addition, there will be opportunities to become involved in the wider project portfolio.
All About The Role
Responsibilities include:
- Preparing cost plans and estimates
- Undertaking procurement of projects from start to finish including preparation of tender documentation
- Managing work packages post-contract including change control and valuation, progress valuations, cost reports and final accounts
- Providing crisp and focused cost advice and reporting
- Conducting tender analysis for the purpose of contractor appointments and data capture for benchmarking and future cost plans
- Assuming a leading role in setting objectives and priorities, working as a proactive team player
- Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for the successful completion of projects and liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control
- Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
- Representing and acting as an ambassador for the company in a professional and confidence-inspiring manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships
All About You
Requirements:
- A minimum of four years' technical delivery experience
- Pre and post-contract experience including cost planning and procurement
- Good technical writing, strong client-facing and communication skills
- Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, self-starting, well-disciplined and commercially astute
- A team player with a 'can-do' attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful, and flexible.
- Ability to take on a leadership role as part of personal development planning
- NEC experience beneficial
Currie & Brown is one of the world's leading physical assets management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients in respect of the management and utilisation of their physical assets, and is differentiated by innovation, expertise, and experience.
With principal offices in Dubai, Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York and Shanghai, we operate throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, India and the Middle East.
Currie & Brown is an equal opportunity employer. As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job. Currie & Brown UK is also proud to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant, which represents a promise by the company that those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly.
