Senior Cost Planner in London

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Job Description

Potensis Selection is thrilled to partner with a fantastic London based residential developer who are looking to add to their existing commercial team by adding a Senior Cost Planner who is able to lead their existing Cost Planning department.

You will effectively manage a team of Cost Planners, taking overall responsibility of a number of developments, including regeneration schemes and projects that have multiple phases.

The role will involve Effectively managing costs, ensure targets are met by managing and controlling the budget and valuations, including monthly updating of the estimated final costs and providing accurate information to the land and development team to aid the purchase and development of new projects.

Responsibilities include:

• Management/oversee of front-end commercial operations including bidding, land purchase, cost planning, design control, budget management, supply chain management/engagement, procurement strategy, and support of procurement activities to point of contract
• Drive consistency of all front-end activities that support and enhance commercial teams in procurement and ultimately securing smoother delivery
• Enhance collaboration with relevant departments including planning, buying, procurement, commercial and design management teams
• Ability to support all stages of pre-contract design (typically RIBA stages 0-3) with the aim of optimising design efficiency and procurement activities all the way through to gateway approval.
• Support in the careful consideration of the golden thread and BSA gateway strategy for each project and tying this back to the project procurement strategy, identifying the correct supply chain that can truly deliver the requirements
• Identification and pricing of project specific risks and opportunities from outset; preparation of mitigation strategies and contingency advice to inform commercial appraisal
• Strategic management of supply chain - early engagement to drive greater cost certainty and up to date rates, tracking of supply chain exposure and management of relationships
• Tracking and analysis of inflation indices to allow informed forecasts to be developed and held in cost plans
• Early engagement of supply chain where unfamiliar risks are identified, and no in-house expertise exist
• Benchmarking of cost data and design metrics across all projects to support cost planning and provide context to board of current schemes in pre-contract stages
• Explore London specific cross regional standardisation and sharing of cost data, benchmarking, and design metrics to provide greater understanding of the wider market and what ‘excellent’ looks like. This would involve working with other regions to collaborate and share to benefit the wider business
• Collation of final account data to understand historic risk expenditure and feeding this back to front end cost planning activities
• Upskill cost planning teams on presentation tools and cost plan templates to drive consistency and clearer understanding across the business of build cost data, risks, opportunities, design metrics and benchmarking

This is an excellent opportunity to work for a leading mixed use developer with an excellent pipeline of future projects. For further information, please apply today!

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