Senior Cost Manager

Company Description

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 are ideally looking for a candidate with at least 12 years of professional experience in the Cost Management area. They should have experience in performing the role on real estate projects including but not limited to hotels, High rise mixed-use developments, residential towers, corporate office, retails, shopping malls, among others. 

They will be serving as the Cost Lead, where they will be required to provide cost management services, including quantity take-off and pricing (at various stages of design), invoice validation, cost forecasting and reporting, change management, close out final account and assistance with procurement management. We are looking for a Cost Manager who demonstrates a methodical approach, has superb interpersonal skills and is not only great at analyzing costs but also knows how to read people and tailor their negotiation strategies, to ensure the best possible outcome. 

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The candidate should have delivered cost management services across a range of major projects, leading a cost management team preferably across multiple sectors in the Real Estate projects. Worked across the full project lifecycle from pre-investment decision making, procurement and budgeting to post contract execution and the closeout of the project. They should also have experience in developing the cost management procedures and strategy which set Turner & Townsends level of standards to which the project will adhere to. 

Job Description

Conducting feasibility studies and writing procurement reports; 

Review construction plans and preparing quantity take-offs, along with Contract Preparation and Management 

Prepare and review detailed estimates and cost plans 

Managing estimating and cost planning activities to include taking ownership of and presenting the final cost plan; 

Applying Value Management techniques at the outset of a project and where appropriate involving Turner & Townsend’s specialist Value Management team; 

Managing the procurement process, implementing procurement, and contracting strategies and participate in negotiations ensuring that all stages including pre-qualification, enquiry, analysis, perform bid evaluations and cost negotiations selection and contract preparation are performed effectively and RFPs revisions and evaluation; 

Ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively, documenting any changes in design, and updating budgets; 

Ensuring that cost checking and valuation work is managed effectively; 

Preparing and issuing monthly post-contract cost reports and presenting them to the client; 

Value engineering and life cycle costing, drive value engineering and offer cost insights to support business decisions; 

Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed; 

Establish and maintain professional relationships with external and internal stakeholders, taking a lead role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages, and report to senior leadership on current estimated cost vs. budget, and advise managers and clients on improvements and new strategies; 

Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all their assigned tasks and accountabilities; 

Staff management (where appropriate) –Inputting into the formal management of a Cost Manager or small cost management team, to include 1st round recruitment interviews, input into resource management and attendance at junior staff appraisals; 

Knowledge management – Ensuring that key information and lessons learnt are generated from each commission and are included within Turner & Townsend internal database; 

Financial management – Utilizing Financial Management Systems to keep track of the ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for each commission; 

Process improvement – Identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems and processes; 

Liaise with site managers, clients, contractors, and subcontractors; 

Prepare reports, analyses, contracts, budgets, risk assessment, and other documents; 

Review and approve subcontractor proposals, manage contracts, and change request; 

Review and approve payment applications, monitor invoicing, and ensure payments are accurate and processed in line with the Contract; 

Advise the Project Manager / Client of any forecasted unforeseen cost or over expenditure and proposes corrective actions; 

Travel from the office to various site locations when or if required or be willing to be based on site; 

The Candidate is required to carry out all tasks and obligations in accordance with their professional level and to Turner & Townsend’s quality standards. 

Qualifications

Minimum 12 years professional experience related to Cost Management ;

Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Architecture, or any degree relevant to the position; 

RICS, AACE Certifications/Memberships; 

Fluent in English and Spanish; 

Ability to work under pressure to deliver deadlines; 

Good communication skills and has experience explaining concepts, methodologies and their deliverables to Clients;

Strong client management, change management and teamwork & team management skills;

Strong Microsoft skills, specifically excel & PowerPoint, CostX, Knowledge of AutoCAD. 

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.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list or that have not followed due process. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.

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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.