As an Associate Cost Manager 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:

- Actively participate in the tender/bid process—from initial tender/bid documentation through analysis and reporting.

- Analyse tenders/bids to ensure client value for money.

- Assist in the preparation and agreement of final accounts, including the handling of any claims to ensure the client gets best value from works undertaken.

- Create estimates and cost plans for key client developments.

- Oversee project spend by creating valuations and cost reports, and clearly communicate variations to your team.

- Support nimble project management and clear decisions through excellent cost documentation and timely communication.

- Support the settlement of construction disputes/loss and expense claims with transparency.

- Use your business development skills to engage new clients as well as repeat projects with existing clients.

- Foster top performance and growth for your employees via excellent mentorship and leadership.

Key Focus:

This role has a specialised focus on post-contract fit-out for a life sciences project. The successful candidate will be instrumental in ensuring that the post-contract phase is managed efficiently, with a strong emphasis on quality, budget control, and timely delivery.

We would love to hear from you if you:

- Are an experienced cost manager on large-scale construction projects with increasing levels of leadership.

- Are chartered or are on the path to completing it. We can help.

- Have a degree or comparable experience in a project management or construction discipline.

- Have significant experience in pre- and post-contract cost management, particularly with fit-out projects in the life sciences sector.

- 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.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of a vital sector, driving excellence in project delivery and client satisfaction. If you are passionate about cost management and project leadership in the life sciences field, we encourage you to apply.

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team! 
 

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility   

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!