Manager Cost Intelligence - Brisbane, Australia - u&u Recruitment Partners
Description
About Urban UtilitiesUrban Utilities (UU) is one of the largest water distributor-retailers in Australia. UU employ more than 1,100 people and supply drinking water, recycled water and sewerage services across wider Brisbane.
Over the next ten years, UU is investing $3.8 billion in infrastructure to support water, wastewater and recycled water across our entire region.
It's an exciting time to join the Urban Utilities team and make a lasting impact across customer, community and people.
They're passionate about building a culture where their people feel empowered to make a difference and are curious and excited about the work they do and where they are heading.
To deliver the outcomes from their 10-year strategic plan, a new role for a Manager Cost Intelligence within their growing Integrated Solutions Group has been created.
The Integrated Solutions Group contributes to Urban Utilities' purpose and vision and enhances the liveability of their communities through safeguarding financial and economic sustainability of the business, planning to meet the needs of their customers and management of the long-term water cycle and our environmental responsibilities.
About the Role
Lead the development and implementation of the Cost Intelligence strategy, anticipating complex issues, challenges, and opportunities, and ensuring integration with key stakeholders;
Develop the cost estimating, assurance and analytics frameworks that facilitate and leverage the integration of systems, cost data, analytics, market intelligence, emerging opportunities and issues;
Contribute to the development and implementation of cost modelling capability and roadmap, focussing on optimisation, standardisation and value outcomes for infrastructure investments for Urban Utilities and its stakeholders;
Lead the specification and delivery of project estimating, assurance and cost modelling services for the Integrated Solutions group, supporting the optimisation of infrastructure investment decisions to improve the performance of Urban Utilities strategic objectives and targets;
Oversee the delivery of cost estimation services that produces, reviews and approves cost estimates, ensuring that all activities, take off quantities, construction methodology, schedule, resourcing and material sources of risk are identified from (at times) mínimal input information;
Set and lead the execution of cost data and analytics reporting plan, creating strategies and templates to report data in a meaningful way; and
Set strategies and initiate projects to deliver the ongoing development, delivery and implementation of innovation processes across Cost Intelligence.
About You
Tertiary qualification in Business/Construction Management/Engineering/Information Technology or other relevant discipline, and/or equivalent industry experience;
Can identify and communicate the actions needed to implement the Cost Intelligence team's strategy in support of capital investment; explain the relationship to the broader organisation's mission, vision and values;
Extensive experience of cost estimating and assurance, and cost analytics, including the establishment and continuous improvement of frameworks, models, procedures, processes and systems; and
Extensive experience in a senior role in leading cost estimating, assurance and analytics for large and diverse infrastructure portfolios, under Early Contractor Involvement (ECI), Open Book, Performance Incentivised delivery frameworks or similar contract models.
UU strives to enrich your life both at home and at work by providing world class benefits through their leave provisions, WFH flexibility, personal development frameworks, salary packaging options, health and wellbeing initiatives, employee assistant programs, social and professional networking opportunities, as well as their new head office in 2023 which will be an industry leading built environment that will set you up for success.
Please submit your resume in Word format only.
Jess Mitchell.
PARTNER, CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY
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