Estimating Cost Manager

1 month ago


Melbourne, Australia ABN Group Full time

493837
- Melbourne
- Estimating/Scheduling
- Management
- Full-time (Permanent)

**Who are we?**

ABN Group is a prominent construction company known for quality, innovation, and customer satisfaction. Our Cost Management team, based in Melbourne, drives essential cost management, retail pricing, and strategic initiatives across Victoria. By streamlining cost processes and building supplier partnerships, this team ensures our products are competitively priced and easy to purchase, supporting a seamless customer experience.

**What's on offer?**

As our Estimating Cost Manager, you will be responsible for cost management and governance, retail price management, and strategic execution across the Estimating Function. Your role is crucial in enhancing and protecting our margins, supporting and developing our retail systems, and working with our procurement team to develop supplier partnerships and methods of measure.

In this role, you’re not just managing numbers; you’re contributing to a vision of excellence and helping shape a company renowned for its commitment to quality, innovation, and customer satisfaction. The Estimating Cost Manager role is ideal if you’re driven by the challenge of achieving operational and financial excellence while leading an engaged, successful team.

**What can you bring?**

As a Cost Estimating Manager, your technical expertise and leadership skills will drive this role’s success. Bringing a proactive, positive attitude, you are committed to continuous improvement and resilience, thriving in a fast-paced environment focused on operational excellence and customer satisfaction.

You will have:

- **Extensive Cost Management Experience**: Proven success in profitability and operations.
- **Stakeholder Management**: Skilled at building relationships for aligned cost strategies.
- **Estimating Systems Proficiency**: Expert in system optimisation and cost controls.
- **Process Improvement**: Proactive in streamlining systems for efficiency.
- **Analytical Skills**: Data-driven, detail-oriented, with a focus on margin optimisation.

**Why work with us?**
- Reward and recognition programs that celebrate you
- Health and wellbeing plans that look after you, including an Employee Assistance Program
- A culture of belonging where you get to be you
- You get to take your career anywhere you dare to dream - you own it
- Hybrid work arrangements available to support you in work and life
- Volunteer opportunities with amazing charity partners
- An accessible and supportive leadership team with clear vision and purpose
- A values platform that underpins who we are and how we operate
- ABN Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion and represents the communities in which we work._



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