Associate Director, Cost Management

Turner & Townsend; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global construction consultancy in Singapore is seeking a skilled Commission Manager to oversee service delivery for complex commissions. The ideal candidate has over 12 years of experience, particularly in a consultancy environment, and possesses a degree in Quantity Surveying or a related field. Responsibilities include managing cost planning and client relations, ensuring value-added services through effective team leadership and communication. This role offers the opportunity to significantly contribute to project success in a fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

• More than 12 years of related work experience.
• Experience from consultancy background.
• Experience working on projects in various sectors.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end service delivery for large or complex commissions.
• Act as the key client interface to ensure objectives are met.
• Lead a cost management team and drive toward positive client outcomes.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Strong business acumen

Client management

Mechanical and electrical (M&E) work experience

Cost management

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying, construction management, engineering or similar discipline

Job description

Working in partnership with our clients, we deliver major projects and programmes with skill and precision, by focusing on outcomes and driving high performance.

Delivering innovative solutions and exceptional outcomes across our sectors, we drive the success of our client’s projects and programmes through effective planning, highly skilled teams, and rigorous controls.

Our capabilities include asset management, controls and performance, cost and commercial management, digital, procurement and supply chain, programme advisory, project management and sustainability. Backed by our extensive experience, we focus on outcomes to transform client’s projects and programmes.

With over 133 offices across 47 countries, we are an organisation of over GBP 1.5 billion turnover and 12,000+ talented team members across the world. In 2025, we are combining with CBRE’s Project Management business to create the premier, differentiated programme, project, and cost management capability globally. Through this change, our profile in Asia will scale significantly, comprising a team of over 4000 staff across all major countries in region. The combination of our programme management and project management and commercial management capabilities will provide a unique opportunity to do things for our clients.

Job Description

• Act as Commission Manager, taking responsibility for end-to-end service delivery, often with respect to large or complex commissions or multiple commissions.
• To act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met through the delivery of a value added cost management service.
• Managing estimating and cost planning activities to include taking ownership of and presenting the final cost plan.
• Ensuring the production of monthly post-contract cost reports and presenting them to the client.
• Leading value engineering and life cycle costing exercise.
• Motivate team members, and drive towards positive client outcomes and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Critically analyze, challenge and brainstorm project requirements and deliverables, in order to find creative solutions and alternatives on behalf of clients.
• To lead a cost management team, ensuring that the team members deliver on all accountabilities.
• To identify & act upon opportunities to improve cost management procedures, templates and products and hence improve the service provided to clients.
• To take line management responsibility as required.

Qualifications

• Degree qualifications in Quantity Surveying, construction management, engineering or similar discipline with more than 12 years’ related work experience.
• Experience from consultancy background, well versed with mechanical and electrical (M&E) work experience.
• Experience working on a range of projects across industry sectors particularly in public sector, mixed development, industrial, semiconductor, lifescience/pharma, data center, hi tech, etc.
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong business acumen, with the ability to drive outcomes on behalf of clients, develop new business, leverage current opportunities, and coordinate with construction and design teams to meet deadlines and deliverables
• Experience in client management with solid experience in 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.