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About the Role
You will be a Senior Cost Manager within our UK Infrastructure business, supporting a variety of client and Turner & Townsend projects and initiatives. This role is key to supporting our continuing growth and making a difference to both our business and to UK infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Establish friendly, professional, and appropriate relationships with clients, colleagues, and other parties involved in projects and programmes.
- Administer a variety of contracts in accordance with project objectives and policies.
- Provide accurate project cost monitoring, forecasting, and reporting to completion in line with budget.
- Pro-actively monitor and manage cost variance and contract cash flow, ensuring timely and correct applications.
- Collaborate with client and contractor teams to manage the delivery of project deliverables, KPIs, and objectives, including programme performance, cost control, and value engineering.
- Manage contract change effectively, ensuring projects remain within governance and adopt best practice.
- Drive improvements in the accuracy of forecasts and budgets.
- Proactively provide sound commercial knowledge and support to all stakeholders.
- Ensure final accounts are negotiated and agreed.
- Manage commissions as needed.
- Adhere to SOX control responsibilities where applicable.
Requirements
- Previous experience or a sound and suitable understanding of contract management (NEC3 preferred), change management, cost management, change control, valuation, procurement, estimating, pricing, reporting, governance processing, collaborative approaches, best for project attitudes, sharing best practice, line management, and commission management is advantageous.
- Ideally degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant subject.
- Ideally hold or be working towards an appropriate professional body membership or equivalent.
Skills
- Excellent communication
- Contract Management
- Change management
- Cost Management
- Change control
- Valuation
- Procurement
- Estimating
- Pricing
- Reporting
- Governance processing
- Collaborative approaches
- Best for project attitudes
- Sharing best practice
- Line management
- Commission management
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree qualified (or equivalent)
- Professional body membership or equivalent
Benefits
- A great place to work
- Opportunity and voice to affect change
- Support for success in work and life
- Healthy, productive, and flexible working environment
- Respect for work-life balance
About the Company
- Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
- We work with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources, transforming and delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives.
- 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.
- Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Equal Opportunity
- Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
- We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.