Cost Management Director

Company Description

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There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Start Here. Grow Here.

Our Eastern Region Cost Management business unit (Cambridge, Norwich and Peterborough offices) continues to grow, with specific demand within the Education, Healthcare, Science, Commercial, Residential, Care, Industrial and Defence markets where we have successfully secured positions with many high profile clients and on key local projects and programs. As a direct result of this growth, we are currently seeking a full-time Cost Management Director, with proven experience across these specific end markets.

About Our Team:

We are currently a region of over 100 construction professionals, delivering solutions for our diverse client base, providing a broad range of services. We strongly promote personal and career development with clear career structures and development programmes. We look to balance this with a flexible approach to working through our “Freedom to Grow” programme. We work well as a group and respect the outputs that the team delivers.

This is an excellent opportunity to be a core part of AECOM's leadership team in the East of England and continue to develop and grow an exciting team in the marketplace.

Job Responsibilities: 

You will be primarily working alongside other Directors to successfully manage, grow and deliver Cost Management duties on various capital projects across the East of England. 

• The role will entail direct client liaising, acting as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met and are specifically responsible for business development / winning new commissions / marketing objectives.
• The role will cover the whole project lifecycle from inception to post-occupancy and ‘soft landings’ 
• You should possess the skills and experience to actively lead and support the internal team, manage and mentor staff on individual, technically complex projects, ranging from £5m to £200m construction cost; taking overall responsibility for successful delivery.
• To provide oversight / strategic guidance / audit and review on a portfolio of projects.
• You will help develop collaborative relationships with our existing clients and other professional colleagues within the industry. Demonstrate an ability and desire to obtain an increased understanding of a client’s business, with client focus.
• You will be connected, organised and self-motivated, being able to successfully work with minimum supervision.
• Successful delivery of projects, ensuring tasks are resourced, managed and completed efficiently, on time and with a keen desire to maintain client’s satisfaction leading to continued and further business.
• Be enquiring, proactive and challenge where appropriate our own existing methods/processes to demonstrate value for money to clients 

Minimum Requirements:

• Be the primary interface with AECOM’s clients (new and existing) with an emphasis on the Education, Healthcare, Science, Commercial, Residential, Care, Industrial and Defence sectors.
• Proven ability of strong client relationships, ability to actively provide business development opportunities with existing and new clients (ensuring these are identified and acted upon) and secure new commissions.
• Proven ability to lead, manage and deliver business development opportunities through writing and converting bid commissions, to high quality standards and completing efficiently and on time.
• To ‘win’ clients through strong business development skills.
• Proven leadership within a cost management business and providing mentoring to the team.
• Proven ability to develop long term relationships with all team members, effectively balancing people and processes.
• Manage the delivery of cost management outputs in accordance with agreed timescales and quality standards.
• Co-ordination and sign-off on all information produced by the team prior to formal issue.
• Be a self-motivated individual from a consultancy or client organisation background, with the ability to work both independently and as part of a wider team.
• Proven experience in a consulting environment/client organisation providing the full spectrum of Cost Management services.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Enjoy the Perks.

At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives.

Why not give our AECOM Buildings + Places page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see first hand the difference we're making in the industry!

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Experience gained at a leadership level within in a comparative business.
• Proven track record of winning new work from new clients and repeat work from existing clients.
• Track record of leading and managing teams.
• Highly motivated and with excellent industry networks.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Degree Qualified – BSc or MSc – in Quantity Surveying / Cost Management.
• Professionally Qualified – Chartered Status with the RICS or other equivalent institution.
• Full UK driving licence, and a willingness to travel within region.
• CSCS card holder.

Preferable

• Eligible for, or holding, UK Security Clearance.

Additional Information

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About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.