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Cost Consultant jobs are open across construction, real estate, infrastructure, and professional services, covering specializations in quantity surveying, project cost control, and estimating, from entry-level to senior and principal roles. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Regular or Temporary:
RegularLanguage Fluency: English (Required)
Work Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)Please review the following job description:
Supports Enterprise Technology Cost and Supplier Management by helping strengthen the performance, governance, and strategic management of key supplier relationships now and future suppliers. Serves as a trusted partner to business owners and internal stakeholders, establishing productive relationships with critical technology suppliers and creating stronger lines of communication, accountability, and collaboration.This role focuses on suppliers where the organization has significant interaction, complexity, challenges, or opportunities for improvement. Works across internal lines of business and supplier organizations to identify relationship and process gaps, improve supplier engagement, establish consistent operating practices, and help scale effective supplier-management approaches across the broader supplier portfolio.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.
- Establishes and maintains strategic relationships with key technology suppliers, serving as a central point of coordination between supplier teams, business relationship owners, and internal stakeholders.
- Develops a strong understanding of critical supplier relationships, including business priorities, performance expectations, challenges, opportunities, and areas requiring increased attention or improved communication.
- Partners with business relationship owners to understand how individual supplier relationships should be managed and translates those needs into consistent, scalable supplier-management practices.
- Establishes effective communication channels, governance routines, escalation paths, and stakeholder engagement models to strengthen collaboration between the organization and its suppliers.
- Identifies recurring challenges in how the organization engages suppliers and recommends changes to processes, roles, governance, and ways of working.
- Monitors supplier performance, relationship health, service delivery, risks, trends, and opportunities and communicates meaningful insights and recommended actions to stakeholders and leadership.
- Facilitates discussions between suppliers and internal stakeholders to address performance concerns, resolve issues, clarify expectations, and improve overall relationship effectiveness.
- Collaborates across Enterprise Technology, sourcing, procurement, finance, risk, and other business functions to support supplier performance and cost-management objectives.
- Develops and promotes repeatable supplier-management processes, tools, reporting, and best practices that can be applied across multiple supplier relationships.
- Supports supplier governance activities, business reviews, performance discussions, issue resolution, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Uses data, performance measures, stakeholder feedback, and business priorities to identify opportunities to improve supplier outcomes and operational effectiveness.
- Ensures supplier-management activities align with organizational policies, regulatory requirements, risk-management expectations, and established governance standards.
- Communicates supplier status, risks, opportunities, improvement plans, and recommendations effectively to business stakeholders and senior leadership.
Required Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in business operations or related professional roles.
- Strong knowledge of business processes and technology applications.
- Proficiency in standard office software (e.g., Microsoft Office).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing or supporting strategic supplier, vendor, or third-party relationships within a large, complex organization.
- Demonstrated experience establishing strong working relationships with suppliers and internal business owners, particularly where relationships involve significant complexity, performance challenges, or opportunities for improvement.
- Experience with supplier performance management, supplier governance, vendor management, strategic sourcing, procurement, or technology cost management.
- Ability to influence outcomes and build alignment across business stakeholders and supplier organizations without relying on direct authority.
- Experience developing supplier governance models, operating routines, performance reviews, escalation processes, scorecards, or relationship-management frameworks.
- Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, negotiation, problem-solving, and executive communication skills.
- Ability to identify patterns across individual supplier relationships and translate those insights into repeatable processes and scalable supplier-management practices.
- Experience using supplier performance metrics, service-level information, financial data, and stakeholder feedback to identify risks and improvement opportunities.
- Experience working with technology suppliers and technology business leaders in a large financial services or similarly regulated environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, technology, supply chain management, finance, or a related field.
General Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation: All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position. Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates. Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays. For more details on Truist’s generous benefit plans, please visit our Benefits site. Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan. As you advance through the hiring process, you will also learn more about the specific benefits available for any non-temporary position for which you apply, based on full-time or part-time status, position, and division of work.
Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law. Truist is a Drug Free Workplace.
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Regular or Temporary:
RegularLanguage Fluency: English (Required)
Work Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)Please review the following job description:
Supports Enterprise Technology Cost and Supplier Management by helping strengthen the performance, governance, and strategic management of key supplier relationships now and future suppliers. Serves as a trusted partner to business owners and internal stakeholders, establishing productive relationships with critical technology suppliers and creating stronger lines of communication, accountability, and collaboration.This role focuses on suppliers where the organization has significant interaction, complexity, challenges, or opportunities for improvement. Works across internal lines of business and supplier organizations to identify relationship and process gaps, improve supplier engagement, establish consistent operating practices, and help scale effective supplier-management approaches across the broader supplier portfolio.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.
- Establishes and maintains strategic relationships with key technology suppliers, serving as a central point of coordination between supplier teams, business relationship owners, and internal stakeholders.
- Develops a strong understanding of critical supplier relationships, including business priorities, performance expectations, challenges, opportunities, and areas requiring increased attention or improved communication.
- Partners with business relationship owners to understand how individual supplier relationships should be managed and translates those needs into consistent, scalable supplier-management practices.
- Establishes effective communication channels, governance routines, escalation paths, and stakeholder engagement models to strengthen collaboration between the organization and its suppliers.
- Identifies recurring challenges in how the organization engages suppliers and recommends changes to processes, roles, governance, and ways of working.
- Monitors supplier performance, relationship health, service delivery, risks, trends, and opportunities and communicates meaningful insights and recommended actions to stakeholders and leadership.
- Facilitates discussions between suppliers and internal stakeholders to address performance concerns, resolve issues, clarify expectations, and improve overall relationship effectiveness.
- Collaborates across Enterprise Technology, sourcing, procurement, finance, risk, and other business functions to support supplier performance and cost-management objectives.
- Develops and promotes repeatable supplier-management processes, tools, reporting, and best practices that can be applied across multiple supplier relationships.
- Supports supplier governance activities, business reviews, performance discussions, issue resolution, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Uses data, performance measures, stakeholder feedback, and business priorities to identify opportunities to improve supplier outcomes and operational effectiveness.
- Ensures supplier-management activities align with organizational policies, regulatory requirements, risk-management expectations, and established governance standards.
- Communicates supplier status, risks, opportunities, improvement plans, and recommendations effectively to business stakeholders and senior leadership.
Required Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in business operations or related professional roles.
- Strong knowledge of business processes and technology applications.
- Proficiency in standard office software (e.g., Microsoft Office).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing or supporting strategic supplier, vendor, or third-party relationships within a large, complex organization.
- Demonstrated experience establishing strong working relationships with suppliers and internal business owners, particularly where relationships involve significant complexity, performance challenges, or opportunities for improvement.
- Experience with supplier performance management, supplier governance, vendor management, strategic sourcing, procurement, or technology cost management.
- Ability to influence outcomes and build alignment across business stakeholders and supplier organizations without relying on direct authority.
- Experience developing supplier governance models, operating routines, performance reviews, escalation processes, scorecards, or relationship-management frameworks.
- Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, negotiation, problem-solving, and executive communication skills.
- Ability to identify patterns across individual supplier relationships and translate those insights into repeatable processes and scalable supplier-management practices.
- Experience using supplier performance metrics, service-level information, financial data, and stakeholder feedback to identify risks and improvement opportunities.
- Experience working with technology suppliers and technology business leaders in a large financial services or similarly regulated environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, technology, supply chain management, finance, or a related field.
General Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation: All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position. Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates. Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays. For more details on Truist’s generous benefit plans, please visit our Benefits site. Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan. As you advance through the hiring process, you will also learn more about the specific benefits available for any non-temporary position for which you apply, based on full-time or part-time status, position, and division of work.
Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law. Truist is a Drug Free Workplace.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services
- Accounting & Auditing
- Construction & Real Estate
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in cost consultant jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in quantity surveying, construction management, engineering, or a related field
- Experience producing detailed cost estimates, cost plans, and bill of quantities
- Proficiency in cost management software such as CostX, Candy, or Procore
- Knowledge of construction contracts including NEC, JCT, or AIA document families
- Chartered or working toward chartership with RICS, AACE, or an equivalent professional body
- Strong Excel skills for cost modeling, variance analysis, and reporting
Tips for Your Cost Consultant Job Search
Tailor your resume to project types
Cost consultants get hired for specific project experience, not general finance skills. Call out the project types you've costed, whether commercial build-outs, infrastructure, or industrial, and include contract values where you can.
List your estimating and cost software
Employers screen for tools before they read anything else. Name every cost management platform you've used, such as CostX, Candy, Procore, or Bluebeam, in a dedicated skills section so it's visible to applicant tracking systems.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists cost consultant openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match your project background and apply directly to each listing without jumping between sites.
Target job titles beyond the obvious
Many cost consultant roles are posted under quantity surveyor, cost engineer, project controls analyst, or estimator. Search those alternate titles alongside the core one so you don't miss openings that match your experience.
Prepare a worked example for interviews
Interviewers for cost consultant roles consistently ask you to walk through a real cost plan or variance analysis. Prepare one project end-to-end, covering your assumptions, the data sources you used, and how your numbers held up against actuals.
Negotiate against project scope, not just title
Cost consultant compensation varies more by project complexity than seniority band. When an offer comes in lower than expected, reference the scale and risk profile of projects you'll manage to make the case for a stronger package.
Cost Consultant Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most cost consultants?
Deloitte, Mace, and Engineering Systems are hiring the most cost consultants right now, with openings concentrated in Florida, Virginia, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Activity tends to be heaviest at large project management consultancies and owner's representative firms with active capital programs.
How many cost consultant jobs are remote?
About 73% of cost consultant openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though the share varies significantly by specialization. Cost control and project controls roles tied to active construction sites are rarely remote, while cost advisory, benchmarking, and owner's rep roles on early-stage projects have the highest remote and hybrid availability.
How do you become a cost consultant?
Start with a degree in quantity surveying, construction management, civil engineering, or a related field. From there, build hands-on experience in estimating or project controls on real projects. Pursuing chartership through RICS or certification through AACE strengthens your standing, and developing fluency in industry cost software makes you competitive for mid-level and senior roles.
Can you get a cost consultant job with little or no experience?
Entry-level cost consultant roles do exist, often titled graduate quantity surveyor or junior cost analyst, and they're accessible with a relevant degree and demonstrated numeracy. Internships on construction or infrastructure projects, even brief ones, give you real project exposure to reference in interviews. Firms with structured graduate programs are the most practical starting point when you have limited field experience.
What does the cost consultant interview process look like?
Most cost consultant interviews run two to three rounds. The first is typically a screening call focused on your project background and software experience. A technical interview follows, often involving a cost exercise or a walkthrough of a real estimate you've produced. Final rounds at larger consultancies may include a presentation or a conversation with a senior director about project strategy and commercial risk.
Where can I find and apply to cost consultant jobs?
You can find and apply to cost consultant jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States in one place. Search for roles that match your project background and seniority, then apply directly to each listing that fits your experience.
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