Senior Cost Manager - Commercial Developer

Company

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. We work with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources to transform projects and programmes, delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions. Turner & Townsend is majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

Turner & Townsend is a leading management consultancy provider to the Commercial Developer sector. We offer industry leading services to clients in hotels, residential schemes and commercial offices. Projects range from multiple complex small projects to large new builds, each with its own challenges and sector requirements, providing opportunities to develop knowledge and skills.

Responsibilities

• Assisting on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan
• Tendering and procuring, including managing the pre-qualification stage, producing the tender list, preparing preliminaries, tender analysis, tender report and contractual documents
• Managing post-contract cost variances and change control processes, escalating major changes to the line manager as appropriate
• Taking personal responsibility for cost checks and valuations on larger projects, ensuring timely and accurate cost checking and valuation
• Producing monthly post-contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
• Inputting into value engineering
• Negotiating and agreeing final accounts
• Interfacing with the client and other consultants at all project stages
• Leading a cost management team where appropriate, ensuring delivery of all accountabilities

Marketing and Business Development

• Identifying opportunities to develop new business with existing clients and reporting such opportunities to the appropriate line manager; using the marketing database
• Assisting in the production of bid documentation
• Identifying ways to improve cost management procedures, templates and products and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager

Internal Management Accountabilities

• Knowledge management – Ensuring key information and learning from each commission is input into the internal database
• Financial management – Using FMS to monitor ongoing margin levels
• Process improvement – Identifying internal systems and process improvements and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying
• MRICS qualified
• UK Cost Management experience within the Real Estate/Property sector
• Experience on larger projects of £10m value or over (or equivalent)
• Experience on new build and fit-out projects
• Excellent communication skills and client facing

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. We promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community. Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable. Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects: Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn.

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Employment details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Finance and Sales
• Industries: Construction

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