Senior Director, Cost Management

At Cumming Group, you will work on some of the world's most exciting projects in a dynamic environment where your success is measured by the impact you make. We are one of the fastest-growing project and cost management consultancies in the United States, as reflected in our top 20 rankings in ENR. With over 50 offices globally, an extremely diverse project portfolio, and double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, the opportunities to make your mark are limitless!

Essential Duties & Responsibilities: (List the essential job duties that are specific to the position) Please note that reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Partner with other Cumming service line leaders and business development leaders to build a cohesive revenue growth strategy.
• Demonstrate senior level technical competence as an advisor to clients in cost and commercial management.
• Take accountability for profitability, labor productivity, and volume goals both projections and actuals of team, project, or regional assigned.
• Actively support and deliver new clients or extended client revenue streams.
• Collaborate with other service lines to provide our clients with a seamless service.
• Increase services to existing clientele by providing solutions to their issues and develop new revenue generating business.
• Develop strategies for the recruitment, onboarding, and training of team members to further enhance team performance.
• Establish and implement short- and long-range departmental goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures.
• Coordinate staff utilization.
• Prepare monthly backlog, utilization, forecast, and P&L reports.
• Collaborate with other department leadership to promote overall company growth and communication.
• Oversee and actively implement process improvements to the cost management service delivery for designated sector, office, or region assigned.
• Act as mentor to team.
• participates in leadership meetings with service line leads and in market. Setting strategy for business development and marketing.
• Accountable for fiscal performance in accordance with company goals
• Provide organizational leadership in area of control.
  
  

Knowledge & Skills Required: (List the required knowledge and skills to successfully perform this role such as verbal and written communication, customer service, sales, attention to detail, time management, analytical and problem-solving, leadership …)

• Provide input on functional strategies and lead execution by designing programs.
• Proactively influence changes, thinking through issue trends and scalable solutions that further organizational goals.
• Identify and drive accountabilities.
• Nurture regional and global team member and client relationships.
• Identify resources to keep current and network externally.
• Mentor and develop key team members (may be outside the chain of command).
• Proven expertise level of knowledge in all phases of construction work.
• Demonstrate ability to coach team members effectively.
• Proven ability to address team member and client complaints and resolve problems.
• Solid Business Development and revenue growth history.
• Provide suggestions to Cumming senior leadership on cost management operations as well as company, regional, and sector goal setting.
• Effectively represent Cumming business goals and objectives.
  
  

Preferred Education and Experience: (Indicate requirements that are job-related and consistent with business necessity)

Education: BS in Construction, Cost & Commercial Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, or related field

Experience: 10 to 15 years in Cost & Commercial Management; 5 years leading client expectations and managing a business unit

Preferred Certification: Professional accreditation – MRICS, AssocRICS, CCP, CEP, CPE or equivalent

Work Environment: (Will this position work in an office environment or on an active Job Site? Will this position work in a quiet office or be required to wear PPE on a job site including hearing protection, hard hats, steel toe shoes etc.)

☒ Cumming Group Office

☒ Client Office

☒ Project Site

☐ Other _____________________________________

Physical Demands: (What if any physical demands are required for this position including (lifting, standing, pushing, pulling, wearing PPE, traveling to and visiting job sites, etc.)

☒ Continuous sitting while using computer and/or phone

☒ Constant use of sight while reviewing documents

☒ Constant speech/hearing abilities for communication

☒ Ability to lift up to 20 pounds

☒ Wearing appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE)

If applicable, list PPE items to be used: close toed shoes, hard hat, reflective vest, etc. will be required when visiting a construction site.

☐ Other _____________________________________

Travel Required: (What kind of travel is required? Domestic, international and what percent of time will this position be required to travel?)

Domestic Travel ☐ 0-10% ☒ 10-25% ☐ 25 - 50% ☐ 50-75% ☐ 75%

International Travel ☐ 0-10% ☒ 10-25% ☐ 25 - 50% ☐ 50-75% ☐ 75%

Cumming Group provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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