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SalaryAt Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.
We are an independent professional services company specialising in programme management, project management, cost management and consulting across the property, infrastructure and natural resources sectors.
Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 120 offices and 50 countries worldwide. Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.
Job Description
- To perform the role of the Senior Cost Manager or Associate Director, taking responsibility for end-to-end service delivery in the healthcare sector (public and private).
- To ensure that client objectives are met through the delivery of an effective cost management service from pre-contract to handover.
- Take responsibility for end-to-end service delivery on new and exciting, major healthcare projects and state significant programmes.
- Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting cost plans.
- Using our bespoke tools and apps, powered by The Hive, you will optimise cost performance at every stage of projects.
- Work collaboratively with leading design teams, sector specialists and tier one main contractors to manage the design to budget.
- Use our Benchmarking app to analyse and test budgets using a reliable pool of national data.
- Use CostX and our cost planning app to improve collaboration with designers and highlight changes between design stages.
- Inform our clients of future cost trends by harnessing the analytical capabilities of our Market Rates App which captures, analyses and stores live national data at a component level.
- Advise clients on procurement and contract strategies.
- Deliver the procurement strategy producing a tender analysis and prepare a final tender recommendation report.
- Experience of taking an effective lead on Two-Stage Tender agreements with strong negotiation and organisational skills
- Deal effectively with post contract cost variances, the change control process and valuations utilising our Cost Control App.
- Present monthly post contract cost control reports to the client.
- Inputting into value engineering.
- Negotiation and agreeing final accounts.
- Where appropriate, leading junior members of the cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on their project accountabilities.
- A proven track record of delivering high quality cost management/quantity surveying services across the full project lifecycle
- Minimum BSc in Quantity Surveying or similar
- Demonstrable experience delivering cost management services in healthcare or the life sciences sector.
- Working towards or full membership of RICS (MRICS), AIQS (MAIQS) or equivalent professional qualification (desirable)
- Knowledge of GC21 forms of contract would be beneficial.
- Ability to successfully manage and prioritise more than one project at a time.
- Ideally experience of working on in heath / healthcare projects
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.
At Turner & Townsend we firmly believe that our people are at the heart of our success and we continually strive to create a great place to work.
We promote integrity in everything that we do and apply our expertise to shape a better environment for future generations and, ultimately, generate value for our communities.
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 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and people from all sectors of the community.
Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.
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