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Your new role

• Demonstrable ability to lead, mentor and empower a team.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple internal stakeholders across diverse functions, including managing and resolving competing interests.
• Ability to effectively communicate with senior management, peers, and other staff.
• Ability to interrogate and understand large amounts of complex data, to summarise and articulate clearly to support informed decision-making.
• A structured approach to measuring success and implementing innovative solutions.
• Ambition to meet and exceed the highest level of industry standards.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Represent the organisation externally. Be pro-active in the development of key partnerships, working with key stakeholders to ensure effective coordination and efficient delivery.
• Proactively contribute to wider business development and strategic initiatives, challenge the status quo, identify areas for improvement and bring forward initiatives that will improve ways of working and benefit the wider organisation.
• Maintain the LDA’s Core values at all times.

• Adept at balancing multiple stakeholder requirements with commercial drivers to control costs and maximise affordability / value for money.
• Act as a primary point of contact, with respect to Cost Management, on multiple projects within the team’s responsibility.
• Develop and implement strategies
  with respect to cost control, cost reporting and cost saving initiatives.
• Manage and oversee the day-to-day Cost Management of multiple large-scale and complex projects.
• Provide strategic and technical advice on cost, procurement, contract, and risk matters to internal stakeholders.
• Manage external QS service providers, building and maintaining strong collaborative relationships.
• Contribute to the evolution and maintenance of the LDA cost and design metric database.
• Oversee the preparation of high-level feasibilities and OMCs for early-stage viability analysis.
• Collaborate with LDA Development Managers and Construction Managers in the strategic management of projects on a day- to- day basis.
• Liaising with project delivery teams ensuring development budgets are robust.
• Constantly seek out efficiencies in how the Agency Cost Management function operates.
• Lead, in conjunction with the Construction Team, contractor negotiations where appropriate.
• Demonstrable understanding of basic financial and investment principles.

• Ability and an ambition to innovate in all areas of the business, on both a technical and strategic level.
• Manage cost control procedures ensuring best in class standards, with an ambition to lead the industry rather than follow.
• Ensuring compliance with the LDA Cost Management framework, including Policies and Procedures.

• Minimum of 12 years’ experience as a PQS / Developers QS or similar environment with demonstrable relevant experience in a senior level role.
• Extensive experience with cost management and procurement of large-scale residential developments.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge and/or experience of public procurement is an advantage.
• Degree or Higher in Quantity Surveying.
• Chartered (SCSI / RICS).
• Willingness to attend training and to develop relevant knowledge, techniques, and skills.
• Post graduate qualifications will be a distinct advantage.

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