Senior Cost Manager - Commercial Developer

5 Hours ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

Turner & Townsend is a leading management consultancy firm specializing in the Commercial Developer sector. They provide industry-leading services utilizing their extensive experience and data. The role involves commission management, including feasibility studies, estimating, cost planning, tendering, procurement, post-contract cost management, valuations, client reporting, value engineering, and final account negotiation. Responsibilities also include interfacing with clients and consultants, potentially leading a cost management team, and contributing to marketing and business development by identifying new opportunities and improving internal procedures. The company emphasizes knowledge management, financial tracking, and process improvement.
Must have:
  • Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying
  • MRICS qualified
  • UK Cost Management experience in Real Estate/Property
  • Experience on projects over £10m
  • Experience in new build and fit-out projects
  • Excellent communication and client-facing skills

Job Details

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is one of the leading management consultancy providers to the Commercial Developer sector.

Using our skills, processes and knowledge, we provide industry leading services to our clients. Our extensive experience and databank of information enables us to provide a proactive, value added service to all facets of the Commercial Developer sector. This includes projects encompassing Hotels, Residential schemes and Commercial Offices. Projects range from multiple complex small projects, through to large, new build projects; each commission has its own unique challenges and requires sector expertise, thus providing individuals with the opportunity of developing their knowledge, experience and skills.

Commission Management, to include: 

  • Assisting on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
  • Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan 
  • Tendering and procuring, including managing the pre-qualification stage, producing the tender list, putting the preliminaries together, tender analysis, producing the tender report and compiling the contractual documents 
  • Dealing effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes, where applicable referring major changes to line manager 
  • Taking personal responsibility for making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and in all cases ensuring that timely and accurate cost checking and valuation takes place 
  • Producing monthly post contract cost reports and presenting them to the client • Inputting into value engineering 
  • Negotiating and agreeing final accounts 
  • Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages 
  • Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all of the above accountabilities 

Marketing and business development, to include: 

  • Identifying opportunities to develop new business with existing clients and reporting such opportunities to the appropriate line manager and by making effective use of the marketing database 
  • Assisting in the production of bid documentation • Identifying ways in which cost management procedures, templates and products can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager 

Internal management accountabilities, to include: 

  • Knowledge management – Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is input into the Turner & Townsend internal database 
  • Financial management – Utilising FMS in order to keep track of the ongoing margin levels 
  • Process improvement – Identifying ways in which internal systems and processes can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager

Qualifications

  • Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying 
  • MRICS qualified 
  • UK Cost Management experience within the Real Estate/Property sector  
  • Experience working on larger projects of £10m value or over (or equivalent)  
  • 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.

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

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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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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. 

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