Location
Manchester

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Join Mace as a Chartered Senior Cost Consultant within our cost and commercial management team, focusing on key strategic clients in the education sector. This senior manager role offers a competitive package including a £7,200 cash car allowance, discretionary bonus, 7% pension, life assurance, medical benefits, and 27 days leave plus bank holidays. You will provide comprehensive cost management services from project inception to completion across various sectors, with a primary focus on education. Responsibilities include managing feasibility studies and procurement strategies, cost planning, valuations, and reporting, overseeing contract preparation and administration, applying value management techniques, evaluating claims and design change costs, driving stakeholder engagement, leading teams, implementing process improvements, mentoring colleagues, and supporting net zero carbon initiatives throughout project delivery.

About Mace
Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person and project, redefining ambition boundaries. Our values shape our consulting approach and the people we seek to join us: safety first, client focus, integrity, and creating opportunities for our people to excel. We champion a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment and are committed to wellbeing, quality deliverables, and continuous improvement. We welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates and are open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid working arrangements where suitable.

Experience
Chartered MRICS with extensive experience in quantity surveying or cost management, preferably within the education or public sector. Detailed knowledge of NEC contracts and strong expertise in value engineering, life cycle costing, contract law, and contractual frameworks related to construction.

About you
Proactive and strategic thinker with excellent leadership and stakeholder management skills. Able to mentor and develop team members while driving process improvements. Committed to delivering high-quality outcomes and supporting sustainability initiatives such as net zero carbon.

Qualifications
Degree in quantity surveying, cost management, or equivalent qualification. Chartered status (MRICS) is essential.