Associate Director - Cost Management - Water/Utilities

Turner & Townsend; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Turner & Townsend is seeking an Associate Director level Senior Cost Manager / Commercial Manager to lead a high-profile, London-based infrastructure project. You will oversee the Commission management, act as the key day-to-day client interface, and drive end-to-end cost management delivery.

The role requires proven cost/commercial management experience, NEC3 awareness, and leadership of multi-disciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Proven Cost / Commercial Management experience.
• Preferably MRICS qualification.
• NEC3 contracts experience, especially Option C – Target Cost.

Responsabilités

• Lead end-to-end cost management service delivery on a major project.
• Act as key client interface and ensure objective delivery of cost objectives.
• Conduct feasibility studies and write procurement reports.
• Manage estimating and cost planning, including final cost plan.
• Oversee procurement, post-contract cost variances and change control.
• Produce monthly cost reports and present to client.

Connaissances

Cost management

Team leadership

Value engineering

Client liaison

Formation

MRICS

NEC3 Contract experience

Outils

Cost planning methods

Value Management

Description du poste

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.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

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.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

Turner & Townsend is one of the leading consultancy providers to the Infrastructure sector, we are looking to recruit an Associate Director level, Senior Cost Manager / Commercial Manager to undertake a lead role on a high profile, London based Infrastructure project.

MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE:

• The Associate Director performs the role of the Commission Manager, taking responsibility for end to end service delivery, often with respect to large or complex commissions.
• To act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met through the delivery of a value added cost management service.

Commission Management, to include:

• Conducting feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
• Applying Value Management techniques at the outset of a project and where appropriate involving Turner & Townsend’s specialist Value Management team
• Managing estimating and cost planning activities to include taking ownership of and presenting the final cost plan
• Managing the procurement process, ensuring that all stages including pre-qualification, enquiry, analysis, selection and contract preparation are performed effectively
• Ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively
• Ensuring that cost checking and valuation work is managed effectively
• Ensuring the production of monthly post-contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
• Value engineering and life cycle costing
• Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed
• Taking a lead role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages
• Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all of the above accountabilities.
• Taking responsibility for developing new business opportunities with existing and new Turner & Townsend clients
• Identifying and acting upon cross-selling opportunities
• Working with Directors to construct bids for new work
• Identifying and acting upon opportunities to improve cost management procedures, templates and products and hence improve the service provided to clients
• Staff management (where appropriate) – Inputting into the formal management of Senior Cost Managers and Assistant Cost Managers or small cost management team, to include 2nd round recruitment interviews, input into resource management and attendance at junior staff appraisals
• Knowledge management

Qualifications

• Proven Cost / Commercial Management experience
• Preferably MRICS
• NEC3 contracts (in particular Option C – Target Cost)
• Post contract administration
• Experience of working on Major Programmes and Projects
• Experience of working in the Infrastructure (Rail, air/aviation, Water/Utilities, highways)
• Experience in leading and managing teams

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.

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.