Senior Cost Manager

About the opportunity

We are looking for a Cost Manager to join our growing team in Glasgow. You’ll be supporting one of our key Construction clients in the region, playing a key role in helping us achieve ambitious growth targets by developing and implementing procurement and commercial strategies across a range of projects.

Department and Location

Department: EMEA Consultancy
Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom

Responsibilities

• Manage client-facing interactions to ensure clear communication and maintain strong relationships.
• Prepare and present cost reports, providing accurate financial insights for project tracking and decision‑making.
• Conduct monthly evaluations to assess project progress, identify issues, and implement corrective actions.
• Oversee contract administration, ensuring compliance with terms and conditions, and managing contract deliverables.
• Handle change management processes, including evaluating change requests, negotiating terms, and updating project documentation.
• Provide pre and post contract quantity surveying and commercial support on a range of one‑off projects and programmes of work.

Qualifications

• Quantity Surveying degree or equivalent.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in estimating, cost and change management, contract administration and preparation of BOQ’s.
• Professional qualifications – Bachelor of Science.

Benefits

Market‑leading pay and conditions, flexible schedules and remote work opportunities, a strong focus on work‑life balance, ongoing training and personal development, and the chance to progress quickly within a dynamic organization.

Leadership Principles

• We always deliver on our promises, no matter how small.
• We are driven to solve our clients’ problems as if paying our rent or mortgage depends on it.
• We have a bias for action. Actions make things happen.
• We employ the best people who are ambitious, hardworking, humble, and open to feedback. We empower them to “proceed until apprehended.”
• We have a business owner mentality to cost management.
• We are open, honest, and direct in our communications.
• We have a growth mindset.
• We reinvest our profits to create a sustainable business for the long term.

About us

Soben offers world‑class construction consultancy paired with hands‑on commercial experience. We increase certainty in our clients’ investments through cost, schedule, risk and project management, and pride ourselves on delivering major construction projects on time, on budget and with certainty.