Senior Cost Manager at Turner & Townsend

Job description

Job Summary

To perform the role of the Commission Manager, taking responsibility for end to end service delivery, often with respect to large or complex commissions. To act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met through the delivery of a value added cost management service.

Job Objectives

• Commission Management, To Include
  • Conducting feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
  • Applying Value Management techniques at the outset of a project where appropriate or applicable, and where necessary involving Senior Management
  • Managing and taking ownership of estimating and cost planning activities to include presentation to the client
  • Managing and taking ownership of the procurement process, ensuring that all stages including pre-qualification, enquiry, Bills of Quantities, analysis, selection and contract preparation are performed effectively
  • Ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively
  • Ensuring that cost checking and valuation work is managed effectively
  • Ensuring the production of monthly post-contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
  • Value engineering, risk management and life cycle costing where applicable
  • Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed
  • Taking a lead role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages
  • Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all of the above accountabilities
  • Ensuring that QA/QC procedures are adhered to at all times
• Marketing And Business Development, To Include
  • Taking responsibility for developing new business opportunities with existing and new Turner & Townsend clients
  • Identifying and acting upon cross-selling opportunities
  • Working with Associate Directors and Directors to construct bids for new work
  • Attending networking functions as required
  • Identifying and acting upon opportunities to improve cost management procedures, templates and products and hence improve the service provided to clients
  • Understanding the Turner & Townsend cost management philosophy and identifying and acting upon cross-divisional opportunities
• Internal Management Accountabilities, To Include
  • 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 learning generated from each commission is input into the Turner & Townsend internal database and Best Practice library
  • Financial management – Utilising the Turner & Townsend FMS in order 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
  • Training and Mentoring – Identifying and proposing training requirements for Cost Managers, Assistant Cost Managers and mentoring staff as required

Skills Required

• Relevant tertiary qualification i.e., Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying obtained from a recognized institution
• Must have a professional Quantity Surveyor qualification (BORAQS)
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in the relevant sector
• Strong analytical ability with good communication skills
• Strong business development skills
• Proficient in the use of WinQS and or CostX quantity surveying softwares.