Change Manager - Project Controls and Cost Management

🌟 Position: 140CMR: Change Manager - Project Controls and Cost Management 🌟

📍 Location: 2-3 Days on Site

💼 Type: Full-time

📅 Start Date: Immediate

💰 Salary: Competitive

We are currently seeking a Change Manager to join our dynamic award winning team. Our client is delivering a complex and high-profile airport infrastructure portfolio, spanning airfield works, terminal upgrades and commercial real estate developments. As investment accelerates across multiple projects, the organisation is strengthening its change capability to ensure cost, schedule and scope impacts are effectively controlled.

This role will support the day-to-day management of change across live projects, working closely with cost management, planning and commercial teams to assess, control and implement changes in a highly regulated, operational environment.

About us: CMR is an award winning project controls consultancy that is first and foremost a team of people, passionate about the construction industry and changing the way project controls is provided. Our approach and culture have been recognised globally, with CMR named Global Project Controls Small Business of the Year 2025 (Project Controls Expo UK Awards) and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in 2026 (Great Place to Work)

Our Purpose (Why we exist): Inspiring new ways to help shape our construction industry.

Our Ambition (What we want to achieve): Re-imagine project controls through a digital lens, being the obvious choice for clients and the place to grow together with intention.

🔹 What’s in it for you?

• At CMR you will have the opportunity to professionally develop like nowhere you have worked before.

• If you demonstrate the capability, our merit-based system will enable you to develop fast.

• We use our in-house capability matrix to transparently track your progression and highlight development areas.

• Join our small, dynamic team where every member has the chance to make a significant impact, shaping the future direction of our company and making a real difference.

• We believe in rewarding our team for their achievements, celebrating our successes but equally helping each other when things are tough.

🔹 You'll

• Develop and maintain a robust delivery schedule with clear milestones, coordinating work sequences with the total project plan.

• Perform schedule monitoring, identify critical activities, and assist in updating and monitoring the schedule.

• Develop and apply installation rates, review and analyze contractor schedules, and provide recommendations to the project team.

• Evaluate quantities, job hours, and schedule logic; prepare progress and performance reports.

• Manage contract programme assessment, compensation events, and perform delay analysis.

🔹 We’re looking for:

Essential

Core Change & Controls

• Proven experience managing change control within complex infrastructure or capital programmes

• Strong understanding of the relationship between change, cost, schedule and risk

• Ability to assess change impacts at both project and programme level

Cost Management

• Solid background in cost management, commercial management or project controls

• Experience assessing cost impacts, forecasts, contingencies and budget movements

• Understanding of earned value, cost reporting and financial governance

Planning & Schedule Integration

• Experience working closely with planning teams (P6 or similar)

• Ability to assess schedule impacts and support time–cost trade-off decisions

• Understanding of baseline management and progress measurement

Governance & Assurance

• Experience operating within structured governance frameworks

• Ability to prepare clear change papers, recommendations and audit trails

• Comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders and investment boards

Stakeholder & Delivery Interface

• Strong stakeholder management skills across client, consultant and contractor teams

• Experience working in live, operational or regulated environments (e.g. transport, aviation, utilities)

• Ability to challenge constructively and influence decision-making

🔹 At CMR we have a strong culture driven by our 9 Core Principles. We look to build a community of people that share our values and ambitions. We’re proud that 96% of our team say CMR is a “Great Place to Work” a reflection of our supportive culture, focus on people, and drive to do things differently.

• 👉 Learn more here: https://cmr.london/who-we-are/

📍 Requirements and Location:

• Full right to work in the UK

• 2-3 Days on Site

📦 Salary & Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays)

• Comprehensive Private Healthcare (Inc Dentist and Optician)

• Life Assurance (x4 Salary)

• Pension: employers' contribution of 4%

• Company and personal performance-based bonus

• Salary Sacrifice Scheme

• Long Service Leave

• Training and professional development

• Regular social events

• Perkbox – employee experience platform

➡️ Next Steps

To apply to our vacancy please submit a copy of your CV for consideration. We look forward to hearing from you!

CMR welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce. CMR is Disability Confident Committed and an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or disability or any other protected characteristics. We aim to create a culture where everyone can be themselves and is valued for their strengths and unique perspectives

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