Senior Cost Manager - Healthcare

Turner & Townsend; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in Greater London is seeking an experienced Senior Cost Manager to join their Health, Science & Education team. The role involves managing costs for high-profile projects, ensuring effective delivery from pre-contract to completion. Ideal candidates will have a degree in a relevant field, knowledge of healthcare or education sectors, and substantial project management experience. The company promotes work-life balance and values diversity.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Opportunities for professional development

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in construction or cost management.
• MRICS qualification preferred and/or relevant experience.
• Knowledge of procurement routes, value management and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead commissions on projects ranging from £1m to £300m.
• Ensure effective cost management service delivery.
• Produce and present post-contract cost reports to clients.

Skills

Knowledge of healthcare and education sectors

Client management skills

Stakeholder communication

Cost reporting

Negotiation skills

Education

Degree in construction, cost management, or Quantity surveying

MRICS qualification preferred

Tools

CostX

JCT and NEC contracts

Job description

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.

Job Description

Turner & Townsend are looking for a Senior 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 team has a wide and varied workload working on many projects from smaller refurbishments to large‑scale hospitals. The Health team is 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

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

Main Purpose of Role

• To perform the role of the Senior 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

Key Experience Requirements

• 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 Senior 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

Key Accountabilities

• 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 referencing major changes to line manager
• Taking personal responsibility for making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and ensuring 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 where appropriate, ensuring that they deliver on their project accountabilities

Qualifications

• Ideally Degree qualified in one of the following fields: construction, cost management or Quantity surveying
• MRICS qualification preferred and/or relevant experience
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering
• Experience of working in education sector projects would be advantageous

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.

Additional responsibilities may include SOX control responsibilities where applicable.

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