Senior Cost Manager

Company Description 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.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
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Job Description We have exciting opportunities for Senior Cost Managers to join our expanding team. Due to continued growth across the UK water, wastewater and infrastructure sectors, we are seeking experienced Senior Cost Managers to support the successful delivery of major programmes and projects.

As a Senior Cost Manager, you will be independently responsible for cost and commercial management across a diverse pipeline of major water and infrastructure projects and programmes, from inception through to completion. Working across a range of contractual and collaborative delivery models, you will be responsible for cost planning, estimating, forecasting, cost control, change control, commercial reporting and contract administration, while proactively managing risk and identifying opportunities to optimise value.

You will work collaboratively with clients, contractors and delivery partners to achieve financial, commercial and successful project outcomes while maintaining the highest standards of safety, quality and performance.

The successful candidate will be comfortable operating in a regulated environment, managing competing priorities and working collaboratively across multiple stakeholders. A strong focus on governance, programme controls, safety and delivery excellence is essential.

Senior Cost Managers at Turner & Townsend:
Senior Cost Managers at Turner & Townsend work on a broad range of projects and programmes in the Utilities sector, including clean and wastewater treatment facilities, mains installation and replacement, environmental improvement, asset management, developer service, Major Projects, Strategic Resource Options, and many more. We are looking for individuals with the following skills, experience and attributes:
Minimum of 5 years' experience within the infrastructure, engineering, or construction industry, with a proven track record of delivering complex projects and programmes in a client-facing environment

Strong team working and leadership skills, with the ability to manage cost management work streams and supervise and support the development of Cost Managers within multidisciplinary project teams in a complex environment

Ability to review and assure work produced by Cost Managers, checking its accuracy, completeness and compliance with project requirements

Demonstrable experience in the successful delivery of major programmes, managing complex stakeholder environments, multidisciplinary teams, significant budgets, and strategic project objectives

Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively with clients, contractors, multidisciplinary teams and key project interfaces

Strong experience of providing cost and commercial management services across…