Cost Consultant

About the Company

Currie & Brown is one of the leading international physical asset management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation and reputation with a genuine global office network. Our people, from the first-day apprentice to senior management make our business what it is today. Everybody in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced they are, plays their own unique part in our success and have fun along the way.

About the Role

The role – what is it we would like you to do? Currie & Brown is currently looking for a cost consultant. The successful candidate will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing, and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider working across a range of projects such as large commercial new builds for blue chip clients, private residential, towers and government frameworks etc.

Responsibilities

Your core duties will involve:

• Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to our clients
• Delivering projects, commissions and professional assignments
• Assuming a supporting role in setting objectives and priorities, working as a proactive team player
• Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for the successful completion of projects; liaising with managers to ensure efficient financial control
• Undertaking commercial management services with limited supervision
• Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
• Providing support to the team leader/service leaders in cost management of projects
• Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships

Qualifications

• Degree in construction economics, cost management, civil engineering, or equivalent
• Professional fluency in French and knowledge of French construction procurement, contracts and cost conventions if the role will support projects in France
• Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) preferred

Required Skills

• Private commercial sector experience – ideally experience gained from some of the following: offices, residential, hospitality, major projects, fit out and refurb
• Expert level Excel user
• Proficient CostX or alternative estimating, quantity take-off or construction-economics software
• Sustainability and Data Skills i.e. carbon assessment and Power BI
• Contract administration skills.
• Pre and post-contract experience
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute
• A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible

Preferred Skills

• Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) preferred

Pay range and compensation package

• Paris, France
• Wellbeing Allowance
• Meal vouchers (Tickets Restaurant)
• Private health insurance (Mutuelle)
• Reimbursement of public transport costs 50%

About the Company (Additional Details)

Why choose Currie & Brown? Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people’s futures.

Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage – providing advice, support and the structure to achieve.

That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long. We are a truly independent business where our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions that drive real impact. As part of Sidara, we collaborate directly with some of the world’s brightest partner brands in our industry, offering exciting opportunities to innovate and grow.

About the Role (Working flexibility, hours and environment)

• Working flexibility
• Hybrid working is available, with employees having the possibility to work from home
• Working hours & Environment
• The standard working week is 37 hours.
• Employees also benefit from RTT days in accordance with the applicable working time arrangements.
• Our office is located within a modern coworking building, providing access to various meeting rooms.
• We have a young and dynamic team in Paris
• Location & Accessibility
• The office is conveniently located near Saint-Lazare.
• Excellent public transport links are available, including Metro lines 3, 12, 13 and 14, RER E, Transilien lines L and J, and numerous train services from Saint-Lazare station.
• Parking facilities are available nearby.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Currie & Brown is compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people’s futures. We are there for our people at every stage – providing advice, support and the structure to achieve, and we collaborate directly with some of the world’s brightest partner brands in our industry, offering exciting opportunities to innovate and grow.