Associate Cost Manager - Health, Science & Education

Turner Townsend; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent consultancy firm in the UK seeks an Associate Cost Manager to join its Health, Science & Education team. The role focuses on delivering effective cost management for high-profile projects, ensuring client objectives are met from pre-contract to completion. Candidates with experience in healthcare or education, strong negotiation skills, and familiarity with JCT and NEC contracts are encouraged to apply. This position offers an inclusive culture, working on prestigious health projects across public and private sectors.

Qualifications

• Understanding of healthcare and education sectors.
• Experience leading clients through project stages.
• Knowledge of JCT and NEC contracts.
• Ability to negotiate and agree final accounts.
• Proficient in producing monthly post-contract reports.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for end-to-end service delivery.
• Ensure client objectives through effective cost management.
• Manage procurement and tendering processes.
• Produce monthly post-contract cost reports.
• Lead junior members of the cost management team.

Skills

Knowledge of healthcare and/or education sectors

Ability to lead clients through project stages

Experience with Two-Stage tendering

Experience with JCT and NEC contracts

Experience with stakeholder management

Knowledge of public-sector healthcare risks

Experience producing post-contract cost reports

Experience managing procurement processes

Ability to negotiate final accounts

Knowledge of contract administration

Experience with CostX or similar software

Job description

Responsibilities

• To perform the role of the Associate 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., 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.
• Taking personal responsibility for making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and in all cases ensuring that timely and accurate cost checking and valuation takes place.
• 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 junior members of the cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on their project accountabilities.

Qualifications

• 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 Associate Cost Manager
• 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

Turner & Townsend are looking for a Associate Cost Manager to join our Health, Science & Education team to work on a high‑profile project within our London Real Estate business. Our team is dynamic, innovative and client‑focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

The London Cost Management Health team is a highly regarded health team working on some of the largest and most prestigious health projects covering the public and private sectors. The London Cost Management Health team have a wide and varied workload working on many projects from smaller refurbishments to large scale hospitals. The Health team are a key part of a wider Health, Education and Science team allowing candidates the opportunity to cover other sectors should they wish to develop other skills. Turner & Townsend is one of the leading consultancy providers to the Health, Science & Education sector. Using our skills, processes and knowledge, we provide industry leading services to our clients. Our extensive experience and databank of information enables us to provide a proactive, value‑added service to our clients.

Job Objectives

Associate Cost Managers lead commissions of varying sizes, depending upon the complexity of the project. Our Associate Cost Managers work on projects ranging from £1m to over £300m.