Turner and Townsend have recently been appointed as the Programme Delivery Partner for a leading health programme across the UK.
The programme aims to build and refurbish hospitals across the UK, improving access to modern healthcare. Following a strategic review in September 2024, the government has rebalanced hospital schemes with secured funding in five-year waves.
As the programme delivery partner, we are mobilising a team with a range of professional and technical capabilities across project, cost, programme and other specialist roles.
We've got multiple roles within our Cost function that we're looking to fill.
Core Personal Attributes
- Actively fosters “One Business” culture, encouraging programme wide collaboration and inclusive ways of working.
- Works proactively across all areas of the programme delivering excellence across all cost management & estimating functions.
- Holds excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Experience of working within programmes of transformation and/or major projects with significant scale and complexity.
- Able build trust across all internal and external stakeholders
- Active supporter of continuous improvement and active learning across complex stakeholder environments.
- Experience in dealing with complex and challenging situations.
- Act’s calmly to resolve issues and conflicts in a pragmatic and non-adversarial way.
- Team leadership and management.
Client General
- Work closely with function leads (Precontract, Post Contract, Data, Tools & Policies and Risk) providing cost management & estimating expertise.
- Support scheme delivery to maintain control of the approved baseline including cost assurance, supporting resolution of commercial matters, risk review and verification of data.
- Assure scheme performance with the effective use of client policies, driving excellence in cost management.
- Provide high quality outputs and alignment to the cost management estimating function tasks and outputs.
- Delivering excellence across all areas of activity to the complete satisfaction of client and wider stakeholders.
Client Specific Activities
- Contribute to the adoption of all client created tools and products, including development of all to enable enhanced future performance.
- Develop a close working relationship with scheme leads, Trusts and their Advisors ensuring high degree of compliance with client processes, tools, assurance and products.
- Contribute to the ongoing development of client initiatives and tasks.
- Support client ambition to lever cost savings and improving cost predictability.
- Engage with Trusts, their respective Cost Consultants and Contractors to build and maintain robust cost management and reporting
- Provide detailed cost analysis and reporting to support commercial decision making
- Identify the cost of and contribute to the management of risk (both threats and opportunities)
- Support business case review including input to client governance
- Support Delivery Project Leads in the verification of scheme cost status and reporting
- Contribute to change control including the cost assessment of changes
Regional Health Sector Involvement (to be discussed)
- Contribute to the national health sector team and growth plan.
- Engage with regional team providing guidance, mentorship, and support to team members.
- Participate in networking and pursuits
- Attendance at events to network, develop brand and raise profile.