Associate Cost Manager - Health, Science & Education

Job Overview

Associate Cost Manager to join the Health, Science & Education team within our London Real Estate business. The role involves working on high‑profile health projects ranging from small refurbishments to large scale hospitals, with project budgets from £1m to over £300m.

• Lead cost management for projects, ensuring end‑to‑end service delivery or acting as a key element of the wider project team on larger or more complex projects.
• Ensure client objectives are met by delivering an effective cost management service from pre‑contract to handover.

• Knowledge of and experience in the healthcare and/or education sectors.
• Ability to lead clients through project stages from feasibility to completion.
• Experience with Two‑Stage tendering, JCT and NEC contracts.
• Experience producing monthly post‑contract cost reports and presenting them to clients.
• Experience managing the procurement process, including pre‑qualification, enquiry, analysis, selection and contract preparation.
• Ability to negotiate and agree final accounts.
• Knowledge of contract administration, value engineering and lifecycle costing.
• Experience using CostX or similar measurement software.

• Estimating and cost planning, producing and presenting final cost plans.
• Tendering and procurement, managing pre‑qualification, tender list, preliminaries, tender analysis, tender reports and contractual documents.
• Managing post‑contract cost variances and change control processes, escalating major changes to line manager.
• Making cost checks and valuations on larger projects, ensuring timely and accurate cost checking.
• Producing monthly post‑contract cost reports and presenting them to the client.
• Inputting into value engineering.
• Negotiating and agreeing final accounts.
• Interfacing with client and other consultants at all project stages.
• Leading junior cost management team members where appropriate.

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s in Quantity Surveying or equivalent.
• Accredited MRICS member.
• Experience managing high‑value and complex projects within a consultancy environment.
• Commercial awareness with excellent negotiation, communication and organisational skills.
• Actively contributes to and supports technical thought leadership.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.