Turner & Townsend are looking for a Associate Cost Manager to join our Health, Science & Education team to work on a high-profile project within our London Real Estate business. Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.
The London Cost Management Health team is a highly regarded health team working on some of the largest and most prestigious health projects covering the public and private sectors. The London Cost Management Health team have a wide and varied workload working on many projects from smaller refurbishments to large scale hospitals. The Health team are a key part of a wider Health, Education and Science team allowing candidates the opportunity to cover other sectors should they wish to develop other skills.
Turner & Townsend is one of the leading consultancy providers to the Health, Science & Education 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 our clients.
Job Objectives:
Associate Cost Managers lead commissions of varying sizes, depending upon the complexity of the project. Our Associate Cost Managers work on projects ranging from £1m to over £300m.
MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE:
- To perform the role of the Associate Cost Manager, taking responsibility for end-to-end service delivery or acting as a key element of a wider project team on larger or more complex projects
- To ensure that client objectives are met through the delivery of an effective cost management service from pre contract to handover.
KEY EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
- Knowledge of and experience in the healthcare and/or education sectors
- Ability to lead clients through different stages of projects from feasibility through to completion
- Experience of working on projects delivered via Two-Stage tendering
- Experience of working with JCT and NEC contracts
- Demonstrable experience of interfacing with key stakeholders and being “client-facing” in the role of Associate Cost Manager
- The candidate will be required to demonstrate knowledge of the risks, challenges and opportunities facing public-sector healthcare bodies
- Experience of producing monthly post-contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
- Experience of managing the procurement process, ensuring that all stages including pre-qualification, enquiry, analysis, selection and contract preparation are performed effectively
- Ability to effectively negotiate and agree final accounts
- Knowledge of contract administration, value engineering and lifecycle costing
- Experience of using CostX or similar measurement software
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- 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, creating preliminaries, 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 junior members of the cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on their project accountabilities.