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Senior Cost Manager - Healthcare

Turner & Townsend

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Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative team as a Senior Cost Manager in a leading consultancy firm. This role offers the chance to work on high-profile projects in the healthcare and education sectors, where your expertise will help shape impactful outcomes. With a focus on client satisfaction and a proactive approach, you will lead project teams, manage costs, and ensure effective delivery from pre-contract to handover. Embrace the opportunity to grow within a supportive and inclusive culture, while contributing to projects that truly improve lives. If you're ready to take on exciting challenges and make a difference, this is the perfect role for you.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Professional development opportunities

Health and wellness programs

Inclusive company culture

Qualifications

Experience in healthcare and education sectors is essential.
Ability to lead projects from feasibility to completion.

Responsibilities

Manage end-to-end service delivery for projects.
Produce monthly post-contract cost reports for clients.

Skills

Cost Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Negotiation

Healthcare Sector Knowledge

Education Sector Knowledge

Contract Administration

Education

Degree in Construction

MRICS Qualification

Tools

CostX

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Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

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.

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 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 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

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
The candidate will be required to demonstrate 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 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 junior members of the cost management team, 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.

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.

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Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Project Management, Consulting, and Engineering
Industries
Construction, Civil Engineering, and Business Consulting and Services

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