Cost and Commercial Management - Hospital Construction

Cost and Commercial Management - Hospital Construction

Full-time

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

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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 programmedelivering 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.
• Acts 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 clientand 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…