Cost Manager / Contract Administrator
The opportunity
As a Cost Manager / Contract Administrator at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.
In this role you will:
- Support the full construction procurement programmes from inception to completion as required
- Partner with the wider team to develop and agree on a procurement strategy for all construction packages and ensure alignment with the programme schedule
- Develop impactful commercial presentations and communications for contractors throughout the pre-and-post contract phases
- Review and evaluate proposals and make recommendations to the wider team
- Support the negotiation of pricing for work packages, analysing information and implementing strategies to ensure value for money
- Be a content expert on owner's bespoke form of contract and method of measurement
- Manage and ensure contract alignment for contractors and project team performance
- Ensure effective coordination of incoming and outgoing contract notices
- Oversee the timely execution of contract releases, payment applications and change order management
- Assist in the negotiation and settlement of construction disputes/loss and expense claims
- Review cost saving proposals and identify affected components of the compensation strategy and implications on contract
We would love to hear from you if you:
- Have experience working with a variety of construction contracting strategies in a similar role
- Have experience in unit rate construction pricing and management contracting methodologies
- Enjoy applying your analytical skills to investigate and interpret complex data
- Are an excellent communicator verbally and in writing
- Thrive on building strong relationships with your team and clients through a shared purpose and sense of openness and fun
About us
Since 1974, we’ve been providing a construction consultancy service that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. It takes a special kind of togetherness to create our thriving, authentic culture. We overcome challenges together, delivering better projects and leveraging innovation. We see the potential in our people and we empower them. We’re a business on a journey – an agile business that is proud
to be different.
We are Linesight. Dynamic. Driven. Different.
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Our approach to DE&I
At Linesight, we believe that our success is tied to the success of our employees, and we are committed to creating a workplace that is fair, equitable, and inclusive for everyone. We understand that creating an environment where all employees have an equal opportunity to thrive requires a concerted effort across every stage of their time with us, from hiring and onboarding to promotion, career growth, and development.
As part of this commitment, we have implemented a range of policies and initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). This starts with our attraction pipeline and accessible job descriptions, designed to attract a broad range of candidates, and continuing throughout the employee life cycle with DE&I checks built in at every stage. Fairness, consistency, and transparency are the core principles for all our hiring, salary increase, and promotion decisions with built-in gender pay gap checks. Employee and family-friendly policies also enhance inclusion and equity in our teams.
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