Senior Cost Manager - Commercial Developer

Turner & Townsend Plc.; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a skilled Quantity Surveyor to join their dynamic team in London. This exciting role involves managing cost management processes for diverse projects, including hotels and commercial offices. You will have the opportunity to lead teams, develop client relationships, and contribute to business development initiatives. With a commitment to fostering a flexible and inclusive work environment, this forward-thinking company values your input and encourages professional growth. If you are passionate about delivering impactful results and ready to take on new challenges, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying with UK Cost Management experience.
• Experience on larger projects of £10m value or over.

Responsibilities

• Manage feasibility studies, cost planning, and tendering processes.
• Produce monthly post contract cost reports and present to clients.

Skills

Communication Skills

Cost Management

Negotiation

Project Management

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying

Tools

FMS (Financial Management System)

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. 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. Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

Turner & Townsend is one of the leading management consultancy providers to the Commercial Developer sector.

Using our skills, processes and knowledge, we provide industry leading services to our clients. This includes projects encompassing Hotels, Residential schemes and Commercial Offices. Projects range from multiple complex small projects, through to large, new build projects; each commission has its own unique challenges and requires sector expertise, thus providing individuals with the opportunity of developing their knowledge, experience and skills.

Commission Management, to include:

• Assisting on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
• 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
• 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
• Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all of the above accountabilities

Marketing and business development, to include:

• Identifying opportunities to develop new business with existing clients and reporting such opportunities to the appropriate line manager
• Assisting in the production of bid documentation
• Identifying ways in which cost management procedures, templates and products can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager

Internal management accountabilities, to include:

• Knowledge management – Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is input into the Turner & Townsend internal database
• Financial management – Utilising FMS in order to keep track of the ongoing margin levels
• Process improvement – Identifying ways in which internal systems and processes can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying
• UK Cost Management experience within the Real Estate/Property sector
• Experience working on larger projects of £10m value or over (or equivalent)
• Experience working on new build and fit-out projects
• Excellent communication skills and client facing.

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.