Senior Cost Manager (Data Centre, CSA)

Turner & Townsend Sdn Bhd; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services firm based in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Cost Manager with at least 7 years of relevant experience in cost management or construction projects. The successful candidate will lead multidisciplinary teams, manage cost planning activities, and promote a positive team culture to achieve client outcomes. Candidates should possess strong leadership skills and experience in client-facing roles, alongside proficiency in cost estimation software. This is an opportunity to work in an inclusive environment that values diverse perspectives.

Benefits

Opportunity for professional development

Healthy work-life balance

Inclusive working environment

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, Construction, or Engineering; Master's is a plus.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in cost management or construction projects.
• Strong communication and leadership skills; experience in people management is a plus.
• Experience in client management with solid advisory skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary project teams including clients and contractors.
• Manage estimating and cost planning activities and present cost plans.
• Lead the production of monthly post‑contract cost reports.
• Implement cost-control mechanisms incorporated into projects.

Job 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

• Hold the highest level of professional integrity and business ethics.
• Contribute to a positive team culture by promoting open communication, mutual respect, and shared accountability.
• Demonstrate professionalism, reliability, and a proactive attitude in team interactions.
• Motivate team members, and drive towards positive client outcomes and meet deadlines in a fast‑paced environment.
• Assist in onboarding new team members and helping them integrate into project workflows.
• Assist in conducting interviews for vacant positions in line with the team’s recruitment process and resource requirements.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead multidisciplinary project teams including clients, consultants, contractors, and suppliers.
• Build productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders through consistent follow‑up and responsiveness.
• Support conflict resolution and issue management by escalating appropriately and offering practical solutions.
• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration across all stakeholders through structured meetings, reporting, and documentation.
• Critically analyze, challenge and brainstorm project requirements and cost deliverables, in order to find creative solutions and alternatives on behalf of clients.
• Collaborate in developing robust cost reporting structures and control mechanisms.

Project Controls & Reporting

• Act as Commission Manager, taking responsibility for end‑to‑end service delivery, often with respect to large or complex commissions or multiple commissions.
• Manage estimating and cost planning activities to include taking ownership of and presenting the final revisions of cost plans.
• Lead the production of monthly post‑contract cost reports and presenting them to the client.
• Lead value engineering and life‑cycle costing exercise.
• Implement and maintain cost‑control mechanisms incorporated into projects’ schedule, cost, risk, and change management.

Financial and Risk Management

• Lead commercial negotiations and contract administration on projects alongside the cost management team.
• Responsible for supporting the internal risk management procedures and systems, including client care processes and the contract database.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, Construction, Engineering, or a related field; Master’s degree is a plus.
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in cost management or construction projects (e.g. cost manager, construction manager, procurement, project manager, vendor, consultant, etc.).
• Strong communication and leadership skills; experience in people management is a plus.
• Strong business acumen, with the ability to drive outcomes on behalf of clients and coordinate with construction and design teams to meet deadlines and deliverables.
• Experience in client management with solid experience in a client‑facing environment that requires incumbent to utilize critical business development skills and advisory skills to enhance project delivery on value management, value engineering, and life‑cycle costing.
• Native-level proficiency and Business-level proficiency in English.
• Proficiency in Cost‑X or equivalent cost estimation software.

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.