Cost Manager / Senior Cost Manager - Real Estate

Turner & Townsend; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend Spain is seeking a Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to join our Cost Management team. You will work on client projects across real estate and infrastructure, providing cost estimating, cost planning, procurement support, and contract administration.

The role requires relevant QS experience, a recognized degree, and strong communication skills in English, with Spanish preferred. Demonstrated ability to work independently within a consultancy environment is valued.

Qualifications

• Recognized degree qualification required.
• Experience as a QS or Cost Manager, preferably in consultancy.
• Excellent written and verbal English; Spanish preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with clients and stakeholders to build relationships.
• Handle pre- and post-contract quantity surveying duties including cost estimates, procurement, tendering, contract admin, variations and final accounts.
• Produce and present final cost plans through Estimating and cost planning.
• Lead tendering and procurement activities, manage pre-qualification, prepare tender lists, preliminaries, tender analysis and contract documents.

Skills

Quantity surveying

Cost management

Client relationship

English language

Spanish language

Education

Degree Qualification

Job description

• Full-time

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.

Due to growth and ongoing delivery success with our clients, Turner & Townsend's Cost Management division Spain requires a suitably qualified and experienced Cost Manager / Quantity Surveyor to join our team.

Working within a friendly, professional and highly successful team you will have the opportunity to progress your career swiftly and take ownership of immediate projects.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate and develop good relationships with clients and stakeholders internally and externally
• Responsible for pre- and post-contract quantity surveying duties including preparation of cost estimates, procurement and tendering, contract administration, variation, final account, etc.
• 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, putting the preliminaries together, tender analysis, producing the tender report and compiling the contractual documents

Qualifications

• A recognized Degree Qualification
• Relevant work experience as a QS or Cost Manager ideally in a consultancy environment.
• Highly motivated and driven with a passion for delivering to your clients and have the ability to work independently.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English and preferably Spanishwith excellent report and bid writing skills.

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.

Turner & Townsend value greatly and have a focus on Corporate Responsibilities (CR), this includes a day’s leave entitlement to support a local charity or community activity along with the opportunity to participate in several office events that held throughout the year.

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 people from all sectors of the community.

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