Turner & Townsend alinea is currently recruiting for a Cambridge based Cost Manager or Senior Cost Manager to join our Real Estate team.
Commission Management to include:
- Conducting feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
- Applying Value Management techniques at the outset of a project and where appropriate involving Turner & Townsends specialist Value Management team
- Managing estimating and cost planning activities to include taking ownership of and presenting the final cost plan
- Managing the procurement process ensuring that all stages including prequalification inquiry analysis selection and contract preparation are performed effectively
- Ensuring that postcontract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively
- Ensuring that cost checking and valuation work is managed effectively
- Ensuring the production of monthly postcontract cost reports and presenting them to the client
- Value engineering and life cycle costing
- 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 Marketing and business development to include:
- Taking responsibility for developing new business opportunities with existing and new Turner & Townsend clients
- Identifying and acting upon crossselling opportunities
- Working with Associate Directors and Directors to construct bids for new work
- Attending beauty parades with Assistant Directors and Directors
- Identifying and acting upon opportunities to improve cost management procedures templates and products and hence improve the service provided to clients Internal management accountabilities to include:
- Staff management (where appropriate) Inputting into the formal management of an Assistant Cost Manager or small cost management team to include 1st round recruitment interviews input into resource management and attendance at junior staff appraisals
Qualifications :
- Ideally Degree qualified in one of the following fields: construction cost management or Quantity surveying
- Ideally MRICS
- Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters such as different procurement routes value management and value engineering
Additional Information :
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime