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._
**Job Description**:
Experience with Hotels and Hospitality Projects is a plus.
- 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, putting the preliminaries together, 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 a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all the above accountabilities
- Marketing and business development, to include:
- Identifying opportunities to develop new business with existing clients and reporting such opportunities to the appropriate line manager and by making effective use of the marketing database
- Assisting in the production of bid documentation
- Identifying ways in which cost management procedures, templates and products can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager Internal management accountabilities, to include:
- Knowledge management - Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is input into the Turner & Townsend internal database
- Financial management - Utilizing FMS to keep track of the ongoing margin levels
- Process improvement - Identifying ways in which internal systems and processes can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager REPORTING
- Depending upon context, a Cost Manager is likely to report to a Senior Cost Manager, Area Manager or Associate Director.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Prepare estimations according to all design phases.
- Monitor, control and prepare Valuations
- Participate to value engineering sessions
- Prepare and analyse change orders
- Develop the primary project budget
- Develop progress measurement criteria with vendors
- Collect cost market data
- Support quotation process responding to the questions of services/materials proponents
- Produce cash flow forecasts for internal and client purposes
- Quantify materials and labour for all phases of a project.
- Prepare Cost benefit analysis
- Review project budget after design packages issuance by the technical team
- Collaborate with the creation of the recommendation report
- Participate in the weekly project and departmental meetings
- Issue weekly progress reports on project costs including forecasting reimbursable expenses
**Qualifications**:
- Degree-qualified or equivalent in Quantity Surveyor, Engineering, Architecture.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in similar roles.
- Working towards RICS membership or recently chartered
- Conversant in all aspects of quantity surveying
- Experience in utilizing software systems e.g., Cost X, CATO, BIM (Building Information Modelling) Measure
- Experience in utilizing Excel advanced level
- Experience in utilizing AutoCAD.
- Fluent in English
- Experience working on larger projects of £10m value or over (or equivalent)
- Experience working on new build and fit-out projects
- Excellent communication skills and client facing
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._
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