Director, Cost Management

Turner & Townsend Limited; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in professional services seeks a Commission Manager in Singapore. This role involves overseeing client interfaces, managing cost planning, and leading a cost management team to ensure high-quality service delivery. Candidates must possess a relevant degree and over 15 years of experience, along with strong client management and communication skills.

Qualifications

• 15+ years' work experience in construction consultancy.
• Chartered QS certification with SISV or RICS required.
• Experience in property projects, especially healthcare and institutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end service delivery for large or complex commissions.
• Manage estimating and cost planning activities.
• Develop opportunities to improve cost management procedures.

Skills

Client Management

Communication

Business Development

Cost Management

Leadership

Education

Degree in Cost Management or Quantity Surveying

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.

• 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 Cost Management, Quantity Surveying or similar discipline with more than 15 years’ work experience with demonstrated career growth graph.
• Relevant experience of working preferably for a construction consultancy in Singapore
• Holds a chartered QS certification with SISV or RICS
• Experience in multiple sub sectors within the property projects will be added advantage. Experience working on a range of projects across industry sectors particularly with developers and public sector projects such as healthcare, institutions etc
• English language skills are required and additional Asia language skills would be an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills, and 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
• A passion for work, and a strong commitment to producing high quality work, and in motivating others to strive for excellence, and to go the extra mile to meet client requirements.
• 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 lifecycle costing.
• Be able to develop new business and leverage current opportunities to grow a cost management team.
• An ambition and ability to help develop Cost Management business in-country or/and Asia is essential

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