Your new company
The services of Hays have been retained by our client, Queen’s University Belfast, to appoint a Cost & Commercial Manager on a 3-year FTC basis to ensure the effective commercial management of the University’s sponsored City Deal Projects being delivered under the Belfast Region City Deal (BRCD) Programme.
Your new role
On all three University-sponsored City Deals Projects, you will be responsible for supporting the Estates Managers in relation to:
Capital costs, commercial management.
Life cycle costing.
Risk management.
The role will primarily involve acting as Cost and Commercial Manager to provide support from RIBA Stage 4 onwards. This will involve robustly analysing, challenging and understanding all cost, commercial and risk matters across all three projects and reporting both internally and externally to BRCD partners.
A full job description is available on request.
What you'll need to succeed
To be eligible for this vacancy you must possess:
An undergraduate degree in Quantity Surveying or undergraduate degree with Post Graduate qualification in Quantity Surveying, Cost Management or Commercial Management.
Professional Chartership Achievement to a relevant professional body (e.g. RICS, CIOB).
Substantial recent relevant professional experience in an estates/building project environment to include:
Clear, demonstrable evidence of successful financial management of projects over £15m.
Experience of NEC contracts Option B and Option C.
Experience of change management for NEC contracts.
Experience of analysing and reviewing costs during the ECI period.
Experience of managing and monitoring costed risk registers.
Experience of preparing cost reporting for client and stakeholders/funders.
What you'll get in return
This role will provide you with the opportunity to assist in the delivery of a range of landmark Northern Ireland Projects. Alongside a competitive basic salary, the wider benefits package includes:
Generous holiday entitlement of over 8 weeks a year (made up of 23 days annual leave, 10 closure days (including Christmas and Easter) and 9 bank holidays) - That’s 42 days a year!
Generous pension scheme – the University contributes 21.6% of salary
Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at Queen’s Sport, the Campus gym; https://www.queenssport.com/Personal Development:
Access to courses run by Queen’s Professional Learning team, and self-development courses including languages, Creative Writing, Wellbeing Therapies and much more.
Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.
What you need to do now
Please contact Andrew McLarnon to discuss this position in confidence. Alternatively, please apply using the link attached to register your interest.
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