Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
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Job Description

Turner & Townsend are engaged to support our clients with many complex projects, responsible for all aspects of cost management and project delivery and we are seeking a Senior Cost Manager to act as the day-to-day interface with our clients driving projects to achieve an excellent outcome.

Key Elements:

Provide estimate and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
Act as the key point of contact to the client overcoming delivery and commercial issues whilst preparing formal and ad hoc reports focusing on time, cost and quality targets.
Ability to estimate at conceptual, programming and detailed level.
Manage pre and post-contract duties including preparation of cost estimates, procurement and tendering, contract administration, variation, final account, etc.
Assist on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports.
Perform all aspects of procurement, including managing the pre-qualification stage, produce bid list, bid analysis, produce bid report, and compile contractual documents.
Participate effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes, where applicable refer major changes to line manager.
Manage cost checks and carry out valuations on larger projects, and ensure timely and accurate cost checking, and valuation process.
Produce monthly post contract cost reports and present to client.
Maintain liaison with client and other consultants at all projects stages.
Collaborate and develop good relationships with clients and stakeholders internally and externally
Provide leadership to cost management team when necessary, ensure the delivery on all of accountabilities.
Identify opportunities to develop new business with existing clients and report such opportunities to appropriate line manager, and utilize marketing database.
Identify improvements for cost management procedures, templates, and products, and refer ideas to appropriate line manager.
Lead the evaluation of the projects time, cost, and quality targets, applying governance controls as necessary to enable the successful delivery of the project.

Qualifications

A proven track record of delivering high quality cost management / quantity surveying services across the full construction project lifecycle.
Experience in MEP construction, industrial, pharma, manufacturing and/or advanced manufacturing sectors.
A degree in Quantity Surveying or relevant degree
Experience of leading cost management on medium or large sized construction projects of medium to high complexity.
Experience with advising clients on value management, value engineering, and life cycle costing.
Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering.
Demonstrates excellent presentation, verbal, written, and communication skills.
Great organizational skills; ability to multi-task and be a team player..

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. To support this 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.

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Senior Cost Manager- Pharma/ Industrial Construction Projects

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