Assistant Cost Manager, Procurement

Sccsinternational; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner and Townsend is recruiting an Assistant Cost Manager with a procurement focus in Mumbai. The role supports procurement, cost management and contract administration across large projects, with key responsibilities spanning prequalification, bid evaluation, supplier selection and value engineering.

You will collaborate with project teams, finance and legal to track spend, analyse market conditions and help deliver cost savings while maintaining governance and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in quantity surveying, procurement, supply chain management, engineering, construction management, finance or a related discipline.
• CIPS, RICS or equivalent an advantage.
• 5–8 years in procurement, commercial management, cost management or sourcing on large construction, real estate, infrastructure, data centre, industrial or engineering projects.

Responsibilities

• Procurement and sourcing across prequalification, bid evaluation, negotiations and contract award.
• Cost management support including cost plans, budgets, procurement strategies and market analysis.
• Contract administration including preparation, review and administration of supplier and subcontractor contracts, changes and closeout.
• Supplier and stakeholder management coordinating across project, design, finance, legal and operations teams.

Skills

Procurement

Cost management

Contract administration

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Quantity Surveying or related

Job description

Turner and Townsend is recruiting an Assistant Cost Manager with a procurement focus in Mumbai, released on its board on 8 September 2026. The role supports procurement and cost management across projects, and the advert lists four strands of work.

Procurement and sourcing covers:

• prequalification
• bid evaluation
• negotiation and contract award
• the preparation of requests for quotation
• requests for proposal and tender documents
• supplier recommendations on commercial, technical and quality grounds

Cost management covers assisting with cost plans, budgets and procurement strategies, cost benchmarking, market analysis and pricing evaluations to find value engineering and savings, tracking procurement spend against approved budgets and reporting variances.

Contract administration covers:

• the preparation
• review and administration of supplier and subcontractor contracts
• monitoring compliance
• deliverables and payment terms
• support to change management, variations, claims and contract closeout

The fourth strand is supplier and stakeholder management, with coordination across project, design, finance, legal and operations teams and supplier performance monitoring on cost, quality, delivery and service.

The firm asks for a bachelor's degree in quantity surveying, procurement, supply chain management, engineering, construction management, finance or a related discipline, with CIPS, RICS or equivalent an advantage, and five to eight years in procurement, commercial management, cost management or sourcing on large construction, real estate, infrastructure, data centre, industrial or engineering projects. The post is full time at mid to senior level.

No salary and no closing date are published.