Cost Manager / Senior Cost Manager - Real Estate

Turner & Townsend; Milano; In loco; EUR 55.000 - 85.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Quantity Surveyor/Cost Manager in Milan to lead pre and post-contract cost activities and support large-scale real estate and infrastructure projects.

The role requires a degree in Quantity Surveying or Construction Economics, strong English and Italian, and substantial consultancy experience. You’ll manage cost plans, tendering, and client communications within a collaborative, high-performance team.

Competenze

• A degree in Quantity Surveying or Construction Economics or equivalent is required.
• Strong English skills + Italian are required.
• Proven cost and/or commercial management experience, ideally within a consultancy environment.
• Experience for a period of 5 years for CM/QS, 10 years for SCM and above.
• Good knowledge of all methods of construction and procurement.
• Experienced with, or managing team that uses multiple estimating tools and applications.
• Strong experience with spreadsheets and databases.
• Collaborative approach, able to develop strong relationships with clients and stakeholders.
• Good organization skills with the ability to multi-task.
• Demonstrated strong listening and communication skills.

Mansioni

• Perform pre and post-contract duties including cost estimates, procurement, tendering, contract administration, variation, and final accounts.
• Complete feasibility studies and write procurement reports.
• Estimate and cost plan, including presenting the final cost plan.
• Tendering and procurement activities, including managing pre-qualification and tender processes.
• Ensure timely and accurate cost checks and valuations.
• Produce monthly post-contract cost reports and present to the client.
• Interface with clients and other consultants at all project stages.
• Participate in post-contract cost variances and change control processes.
• Perform cost risk analysis and input into value engineering; negotiate and approve final accounts.
• Maintain central feedback and update best practices in estimating.

Conoscenze

Quantity surveying

Cost management

Commercial management

Estimating tools

Spreadsheets

Stakeholder management

English & Italian

Formazione

Degree in Quantity Surveying

Construction Economics

Strumenti

Estimating software

Cost databases

Descrizione del lavoro

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 23,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure,energyand 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 estateservicesand 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.

Job Description

• Pre and post-contract duties including preparation of cost estimates, procurement and tendering, contract administration, variation, final account, etc.
• Completing feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan
• Tendering and procurement activity, including managing the pre-qualification stage, producing the tender list, preliminaries, tender analysis, tender report and compiling the contractual documents
• Taking responsibility for timely and accurate cost checks and valuations
• Producing monthly post contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
• Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages
• Participate effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes
• Perform cost risk analysis and provide input into value engineering; negotiate and approve final accounts
• Maintain central feedback and learning on cost estimating from prospects and projects and contribute to updating of best practices in estimating

Qualifications

• A degree in Quantity Surveying or Construction Economics or equivalent is required.
• Strong English skills required + Italian
• Proven cost and/or commercial management experience, ideally within a consultancy environment.
• Experience for a period of 5 years for CM/QS, 10 years for SCM and above.
• Good knowledge of all methods of construction and procurement.
• Experienced with, or managing team that uses multiple estimating tools and applications.
• Strong experience with spreadsheets and databases.
• Collaborative approach, able to develop strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, internally and externally.
• Good organization skills with the ability to multi-task.
• Demonstrated strong listening and communication skills.

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.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.