Cost and Commercial Management - Hospital Construction

Sccsinternational; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in the UK is seeking a Cost and Commercial Management professional to join the Hospital Construction programme. This full-time role offers broad exposure to cost management, estimating, governance and reporting across a UK health project portfolio.

You will collaborate with scheme leads, trusts and advisers, drive cost assurance, risk review and data verification, and support business cases and change control.

Qualifications

• Experience in cost management and estimating for large programmes.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Background in transformation programmes and major projects.
• Ability to build trust across internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide cost management and estimating expertise across schemes.
• Support scheme delivery to maintain control of the approved baseline including cost assurance, risk review and data verification.
• Assure scheme performance with client policies and reporting outputs.
• Deliver high-quality outputs aligned to cost management tasks and client requirements.

Skills

One Business culture

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Team leadership

Cost management

Estimating

Programme management

Continuous improvement

Job description

Cost and Commercial Management - Hospital Construction

Full-time

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 and Townsend have recently been appointed as the Programme Delivery Partner for a leading health programme across the UK.

The programme aims to build and refurbish hospitals across the UK, improving access to modern healthcare. Following a strategic review in September 2024, the government has rebalanced hospital schemes with secured funding in five-year waves.

As the programme delivery partner, we are mobilising a team with a range of professional and technical capabilities across project, cost, programme and other specialist roles.

We've got multiple roles within our Cost function that we're looking to fill.

Core Personal Attributes

• Activelyfosters “One Business” culture, encouraging programme wide collaboration and inclusive ways of working.
• Works proactively across all areas of the programmedelivering excellence across all cost management & estimating functions.
• Holds excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience of working within programmes of transformation and/or major projects with significant scale and complexity.
• Able build trust across all internal and external stakeholders
• Active supporter of continuous improvement and active learning across complex stakeholder environments.
• Experience in dealing with complex and challenging situations.
• Act’s calmly to resolve issues and conflicts in a pragmatic and non-adversarial way.
• Team leadership and management.

Client General

• Work closely with function leads (Precontract, Post Contract, Data, Tools & Policies and Risk) providing cost management & estimating expertise.
• Support scheme delivery to maintain control of the approved baseline including cost assurance, supporting resolution of commercial matters, risk review and verification of data.
• Assure scheme performance with the effective use of client policies, driving excellence in cost management.
• Provide high quality outputs and alignment to the cost management estimating function tasks and outputs.
• Delivering excellence across all areas of activity to the complete satisfaction of clientand wider stakeholders.

Client Specific Activities

• Contribute to the adoption of all clientcreated tools and products, including development of all to enable enhanced future performance.
• Develop a close working relationship with scheme leads, Trusts and their Advisors ensuring high degree of compliance with clientprocesses, tools, assurance and products.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of clientinitiatives and tasks.
• Support clientambition to lever cost savings and improving cost predictability.
• Engage with Trusts, their respective Cost Consultants and Contractors to build and maintain robust cost management and reporting
• Provide detailed cost analysis and reporting to support commercial decision making
• Identify the cost of and contribute to the management of risk (both threats and opportunities)
• Support business case review including input to clientgovernance
• Support Delivery Project Leads in the verification of scheme cost status and reporting
• Contribute to change control including the cost assessment of changes

Regional Health Sector Involvement (to be discussed)

• Contribute to the nationalhealth sector team and growth plan.
• Engage with regional team providing guidance, mentorship, and support to team members.
• Participate in networking and pursuits
• Attendance at events to network, develop brand and raise profile.
• Relevant technical qualification with demonstrable track record in delivering major projects and programmes of significant value and complexity
• Strong client-focused approach with excellent stakeholder management skills
• Working towards or holding an applicable professional qualification
• Experience in construction consultancy, healthcare/life science projects, or digital software for project management is advantageous

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