Description
Estimating Manager
Key Responsibilities:
Generally, the Estimating Manager helps the project delivery teams in compiling a robust Cost Estimate/Cost Plan which is auditable against the practices and tools contained within the Project Management Framework.
The Estimating Manager is a new role.
This is a senior position for someone who understands how to put together estimates and has worked within a Global enterprise system:
So being able to roll up from individual projects through to the entire portfolio.
You will be working in a small group - so personality is important and this team also provides training and advice to the Projects. Therefore good communication skills and ability to build strong relationships. UK has 6 sites presently with projects and a further 10 globally.
This is an exciting time as our Client is developing new systems and processes from scratch and changing existing systems that have been in place for circa 10 years. You must be a good self-starter and be able to understand the concepts and goals.
You will need tenacity and resilience working within the existing systems and with people who have worked with them for 10 years. You will need to take them through the change journey. You will need to be able to communicate the reasoning and benefits of the changes and push that information out.
An advantage that someone has good pharma experience as will need to understand what we are trying to achieve from a business perspective.
You need to be a self-starter, able to present and communicate at a high level with technical expertise to explain at a detail level.
In addition, the key responsibilities are as follows:
* Provide functional support and responsibility for multiple projects and provide managerial responsibility for the Estimating Function within the Global Capital Projects (GCP) group
* To work with the GCP Programme Manager to ensure alliance of Cost Estimates/Cost Plans with the Project Schedule
* Coordinating multiple estimates simultaneously as well as Gateway review responsibility for multiple estimates or large estimates
* Able to maintain good, healthy, professional relationships - Liaising with Stakeholders, Functional Heads, Project Managers, Engineers, Architects, subcontractors, contractors, vendors, etc., on the adjustments or changes that need to be made in the cost estimates and help in determining the feasibility of the project.
* To continually develop estimating processes to ensure applicability for both the project and the portfolio level, and providing leadership for continuously improving the processes for estimating
* To be able to conceptualise designs for the project and review all estimates before they are submitted via the Project Investment Proposal process
* To actively participate in the management of Project Investment Proposals prior to formal Gateway submissions
* Analyses all estimates and identify the anomalies and make sure that their accuracies are verified
* Oversees the estimating functions and activities related to the working of the Estimating Function
* Responsible for calculating the project and portfolio wide statistical data, prices of various materials, labour costs, equipment norms and compiling relevant reports, - Helps in the development of guidelines for future estimates through Benchmarking
* Undertake high level review of quotations, analysing, and recommending the subcontractors and vendors
* To maintain and update Cost Estimate Templates to facilitate a consistent approach to estimating and Benchmarking
* To collate and develop an estimate Tool kit package to train and development project control team members in the development of Cost Plans throughout the project Gateway process
* To utilise Portfolio reports in developing the schedule for project controls team training and audit of projects progressing through the Gateway process
* To review available cost control/management commercially available tools
* To work with the GCP Project Control (third party) partners and suppliers and help to foster long term relationships
Based in the office 5 days a week. Maybe occasional travel.