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About the Role
Turner & Townsend is recruiting an experienced Senior Cost Manager to join their Data Centre team in Berlin. This role offers the opportunity to lead strategic commissions and high-profile projects within a market-leading client base.
Responsibilities
- Perform pre and post-contract duties including cost estimates, procurement, tendering, contract administration, variation, and final account.
- Complete feasibility studies and write procurement reports.
- Estimate and cost plan, producing and presenting the final cost plan.
- Manage tendering and procurement activity, including pre-qualification, tender list production, preliminaries, tender analysis, tender reports, and compiling contractual documents.
- Ensure timely and accurate cost checks and valuations.
- Produce and present monthly post-contract cost reports to the client.
- Interface with clients and consultants at all project stages.
- Participate effectively in post-contract cost variance and change control processes.
- Perform cost risk analysis, provide input into value engineering, and negotiate/approve final accounts.
- Maintain central feedback and learning on cost estimating and contribute to updating estimating best practices.
Requirements
- Technical knowledge of Data centres or other related facility asset types.
- Good knowledge of all methods of construction and procurement.
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience in the construction industry.
- Experience with, or managing a team that uses, multiple estimating tools and applications.
- Strong experience with spreadsheets and databases.
- Collaborative approach with the ability 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.
- Good command of written and spoken German and English strongly preferred.
- Availability for full-time on-site work.
Skills
- Cost estimating
- Procurement
- Tendering
- Contract administration
- Valuation
- Feasibility studies
- Cost planning
- Spreadsheets
- Databases
- Communication
- Organization
- Multi-tasking
- Cost risk analysis
- Value engineering
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Full-time
- On-site
Experience Level
- Senior
- Minimum 7 years
Benefits
- Healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
About the Company
- Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
- They work with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources, transforming projects to improve people's lives.
- Capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
- Majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc.
- They are leaders in professional services to the Data Centre sector in Germany.
Equal Opportunity
- Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer.
- They celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
- They actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.