Strategic Cost & Commercial Lead - Hospital Construction

Turner & Townsend; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking professionals for Cost and Commercial Management roles within a major hospital construction programme across the UK. The roles involve cost control, estimating, governance and reporting to support healthcare infrastructure projects.

The team collaborates across Precontract, Post Contract, data governance and risk, driving cost excellence and value for a national health sector programme. Strong leadership and communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Actively fosters “One Business” culture, encouraging programme wide collaboration and inclusive ways of working.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 client and wider stakeholders.
• Contribute to the adoption of client created tools and products to enable enhanced future performance.
• Develop a close working relationship with scheme leads, Trusts and Advisors ensuring high degree of compliance with client processes, tools and products.
• Contribute to ongoing development of client initiatives and tasks.
• Support client ambition 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 client governance.
• Support Delivery Project Leads in verification of scheme cost status and reporting.
• Contribute to change control including the cost assessment of changes.

Skills

One Business culture

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Cost management & estimating

Communication skills

Job description

Turner & Townsend is seeking professionals for Cost and Commercial Management roles within a major hospital construction programme across the UK. The roles involve cost control, estimating, governance and reporting to support healthcare infrastructure projects.

The team collaborates across Precontract, Post Contract, data governance and risk, driving cost excellence and value for a national health sector programme. Strong leadership and communication are essential.