Senior Cost Manager - High End Residential

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.

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.
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Job Description

Turner & Townsend is recruiting for a Senior Cost Manager to join the London-based Developer Team, supporting projects within the High-End Residential sector.

The team works on a range of projects for public and private sector clients, including the refurbishment of listed buildings, social housing developments, office fit-outs, and residential schemes. Projects vary in scale and complexity, from smaller refurbishment projects to larger new-build developments.

Role Responsibilities

• Support the preparation of feasibility studies and procurement reports.
• Prepare cost estimates and cost plans, including the presentation of final cost plans.
• Manage tendering and procurement activities, including pre-qualification, tender lists, preliminaries, tender analysis, and tender reporting.
• Manage post-contract cost variations and change control processes.
• Undertake cost checks and valuations, ensuring accuracy and timely completion.
• Produce and present monthly post-contract cost reports.
• Contribute to value engineering activities.
• Negotiate and agree final accounts.
• Liaise with clients, consultants, and other project stakeholders throughout all project stages.
• Lead and coordinate the activities of the cost management team, ensuring delivery of assigned responsibilities.
• Identify potential opportunities for additional services with existing clients where appropriate.
• Support the preparation of bid and proposal documentation.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of cost management procedures, templates, and tools.
• Maintain project information and lessons learned within internal systems and databases.
• Monitor project financial performance using FMS.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and communicate recommendations through appropriate channels.
• Review commission management activities to support quality and efficiency objectives.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying
• MRICS qualified
• UK Cost Management experience within the Real Estate/Property sector
• Experience working on larger projects
• Experience working on new build and fit-out projects
• Excellent communication skills and client facing.

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.

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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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.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:

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.