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Cost Manager - Real Estate

Edinburgh, United Kingdom, gb💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-03 → 2026-09-28

Core

Guide clients and professional teams on iconic real estate projects across Scotland, ensuring best value for money through cost management and commercial advice.

Role type

Senior Cost Manager (Quantity Surveying)

Builds

Cost plans, procurement reports, tender packages, monthly cost reports, and final accounts for construction projects.

Domain

Real Estate / Construction / Quantity Surveying

Required skills

Cost planning, tendering and procurement, change control, cost checking and valuation, value engineering, final account negotiation, feasibility studies, stakeholder interfacing

Preferred skills

Main Contracting or PQS background, outgoing and collaborative approach

Technologies

RICS standards, SOX controls

Responsibilities

Assist on feasibility studies and write procurement reports; Estimate and cost plan projects; Manage tendering and pre-qualification; Handle post-contract cost variances and change control; Perform cost checks and valuations; Produce monthly post-contract cost reports; Input into value engineering; Negotiate and agree final accounts; Interface with clients and consultants.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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