Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together to deliver outcomes that improve people’s lives.
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Cost Manager to join our Health, Science & Education team and work on a high‑profile project within our London Real Estate business.
Job Objectives
Senior Cost Managers lead commissions of varying sizes, ranging from £1m to over £300m.
Main Purpose of Role
- To perform the role of the Senior Cost Manager, taking responsibility for end‑to‑end service delivery or acting as a key element of a wider project team on larger or more complex projects.
- To ensure that client objectives are met through the delivery of an effective cost management service from pre‑contract to handover.
Key Experience Requirements
- Knowledge of and experience in the healthcare and/or education sectors.
- Ability to lead clients through different stages of projects from feasibility through to completion.
- Experience of working on projects delivered via Two‑Stage tendering.
- Experience of working with JCT and NEC contracts.
- Demonstrable experience of interfacing with key stakeholders and being “client‑facing” in the role of Senior Cost Manager.
- The candidate will be required to demonstrate knowledge of the risks, challenges and opportunities facing public‑sector healthcare bodies.
- Experience of producing monthly post‑contract cost reports and presenting them to the client.
- Experience of managing the procurement process, ensuring that all stages including pre‑qualification, enquiry, analysis, selection and contract preparation are performed effectively.
- Ability to effectively negotiate and agree final accounts.
- Knowledge of contract administration, value engineering and lifecycle costing.
- Experience of using CostX or similar measurement software.
Key Accountabilities
- 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, creating preliminaries, tender analysis, producing the tender report and compiling the contractual documents.
- Dealing effectively with post‑contract cost variances and the change control processes, where applicable referring major changes to line manager.
- Making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and in all cases 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.
- Where appropriate, leading junior members of the cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on their project accountabilities.
Qualifications
- Ideally Degree qualified in one of the following fields: construction, cost management or Quantity Surveying.
- MRICS Qualification preferred and/or relevant experience.
- Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering.
- Experience of working in Education sector projects would be advantageous.
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
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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