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About the Role

Assistant Cost Managers will join a dynamic, award-winning Cost Management team within the Real Estate sector, working on diverse and exciting projects through long-term secured frameworks. This role offers excellent career development opportunities with ongoing professional development and investment in learning.

Responsibilities

• Support feasibility studies and the preparation of procurement reports.
• Prepare cost estimates and cost plans, including the production and presentation of final cost plans.
• Support tendering and procurement activities, including managing pre-qualification processes, preparing tender lists, compiling preliminaries, undertaking tender analysis, producing tender reports, and preparing contractual documentation.
• Manage post-contract cost variations and change control processes, escalating significant changes where appropriate.
• Undertake cost checks and valuations, ensuring all cost management activities are completed accurately and within required timescales.
• Produce and present monthly post-contract cost reports to clients and project stakeholders.
• Contribute to value engineering exercises and cost optimisation initiatives.
• Negotiate and agree final accounts.
• Collaborate with clients, consultants, and other project stakeholders throughout all stages of project delivery.
• Where appropriate, lead cost management teams, ensuring high standards of performance, accountability, and service delivery.

Requirements

• Good technical grounding in all of the main areas of cost management and contractor a background.
• Experience of acting as Commission Manager on small to medium sized projects, or at least sufficient related experience to enable a step up to performing the role of Commission Manager.
• Good knowledge of the main procurement methods and their application with respect to the 'tactical procurement' of small to medium sized buildings.
• Knowledge and understanding of value engineering.
• Experience of utilising a range of industry standard processes and systems (IT and other) in order to effectively deliver a project.
• Ability to successfully manage and prioritise more than one project at a time.
• Candidates with experience gained in consultancy, client-side, contractor, or related environments are encouraged to apply.

Skills

• Cost management
• Procurement
• Tendering
• Value engineering
• Cost optimisation
• Negotiation
• Client collaboration
• Stakeholder management
• Project management

Location

• London

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Assistant

Education Level

• Degree or HNC level qualification

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive salary

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package
• Buy or sell up to five days of annual leave each year
• Ongoing professional development
• Investment in learning

About the Company

• At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.
• Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide.
• We have long-term secured frameworks with national and regional organisations across the Commercial Developer sector, providing the opportunity to work on a diverse range of exciting projects.
• 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.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.