Senior Cost Manager

Company 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.

Job Description

Due to our continued successes and expansion of our EU business, we currently want to talk with Cost Managers at all career levels with relevant or transferable sector experience:-

Job Objectives

• 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

• Technical knowledge of Data Center, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Pharma, Real Estate, Residential, Commercial or other related facility asset types.

• Good knowledge of all methods of construction and procurement.

• Inquisitive, technical knowledge with an passion for working on similar asset types.

• 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.

• Proven cost and/or commercial management experience, ideally within a consultancy environment.
• Polish and English language skills required

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.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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