Cost Planner

The Vacancy

Wates Group are looking for a Cost Planner in our London region to provide robust, accurate cost planning and early-stage estimating across a diverse pipeline of work. You’ll play a key role in shaping bids and pre‑construction strategy, ensuring cost certainty from concept through to tender and beyond.

Working closely with bid teams, pre‑construction colleagues, development team, consultants and clients, you’ll deliver high‑quality cost advice on complex and high‑value schemes (including projects in excess of £100m), helping to ensure commercial success and profitable delivery.

As a Cost Planner, you will:

• Produce accurate and detailed cost plans across all relevant RIBA stages and OGC gateways
• Confident in producing NRM full elemental and detail cost plan.
• Produce early stage budget cost to facilitate development appraisal model
• Drive design development during stage 0-3 with a focus on cost efficiency
• Engaging with supply chain partners for specialist pricing advice, rate validation and market intel.
• Identifying risks and opportunities within the cost plan/estimate
• Provide expert cost advice to bid teams, including managing change through the cost planning process
• Prepare tender and construction inflation forecasts
• Develop benchmarking reports using elemental rates, key rates and sector analysis
• Create bespoke cost planning solutions aligned to bidding and client objectives
• Build effective working relationships with clients, consultants and internal stakeholders

WHAT WE OFFER

• Competitive salary & profit share scheme
• Flexible working
• Car Allowance / Company Car
• Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)
• Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employers’ contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more…
• One of the best learning and development programmes which is customizable to support your career progression goals. (c.7000 training sessions delivered year to date across the WATES Group)
• Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.

To find out more about LIFE AT WATES please click on the following link https://www.wates.co.uk/careers/

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.