Senior Cost Manager / QS – High-End Retail & Commercial – Lower Manhattan, NY

Location: Lower Manhattan, New York City

Compensation: $155,000–$180,000 + full executive benefits

Sectors: High-end retail | luxury hospitality and accommodation | Grade-A commercial offices

The Opportunity

Trade the UK weather for the skyline of New York City. HeatherDaniel International (HDi), a construction recruitment specialist, is representing a premier Manhattan construction consultancy that is expanding its executive delivery team and securing a UK-trained Senior Quantity Surveyor / Cost Manager to direct high-profile, high-end commercial builds across Lower Manhattan.

This is not a corporate treadmill. The seat puts you at the helm of built-environment investments, managing commercial value engineering across elite retail, luxury accommodation and flagship corporate headquarters.

Key Responsibilities

• Commercial management: Direct all commercial pre-contract and post-contract cost-management workflows for high-end Manhattan assets.
• Advisory: Execute precision value estimation, contractual risk management and procurement advice for high-net-worth clients.
• Relationships: Manage client-side relationships with key stakeholders, keeping commercial order and project profitability.
• Governance: Enforce rigorous commercial governance across complex, fast-paced fit-out and ground-up builds.

Requirements

• Background: UK national with a quantity surveying (PQS) degree; MRICS charter status is highly advantageous.
• Track record: Proven delivery managing high-end retail, high-specification commercial offices or luxury residential projects.
• Commercial IQ: Expertise in value engineering, contract administration and client-facing advisory roles.
• Drive: A high-velocity professional ready to establish a long-term career in the US market.

Compensation & Benefits

• Package: $155,000–$180,000 + full executive benefits.

Next Step

Interviews are being arranged now.

Why candidates choose HDi

We start with you, not with a requisition to fill. The people we place today are often the clients who hire us tomorrow. That only works if we treat the first conversation with care.

We know what a Quantity Surveyor is. We work in verticals — cost, project advisory, claims and dispute, built-environment leadership, and data center and mission-critical programmes — not as a generalist shop that learns your job from a Wikipedia page.

We are honest about salary and fit, even when the answer is no. We do not mailshot your curriculum vitae. We do not share it without your consent. That promise is written in full on our Candidate Charter.

We stay with you from the first call through interview, offer, resignation and start.

A major statewide consultancy in the United States, headquartered in New York, has hired us on a retainer.

We are working with a major international consultancy and have placed nearly forty people with them this year.

Our Candidate Charter: You are a person, not a placement. We are honest on salary and fit. Your curriculum vitae is never shared without your consent. We reply, even when there is no update. We stay with you through the whole move.

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