Cost Manager – Infrastructure

Overview

In this role you drive cost management for UK Infrastructure projects, collaborating with clients and Turner & Townsend teams to keep costs, forecasts, and contracts on track. You will monitor cost performance, support change control, and help deliver value through governance and best-practice commercial processes. The position offers the chance to influence project outcomes across real estate and infrastructure while supporting a culture of collaboration and inclusion. You will work with multidisciplinary teams to enable delivery of high-impact programmes.

Pay / Benefits

• great place to work
• healthy, productive and flexible working environment
• supports work-life balance
• equal opportunity employer
• inclusion and diversity
• opportunity to affect change

Responsibilities

• Establish professional client and team relationships
• Administer contracts per project objectives and policies
• Provide accurate cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting
• Monitor cost variance and contract cash flow; ensure timely applications
• Collaborate with client and contractor teams on deliverables, KPIs, and value engineering
• Manage contract changes to stay within governance and best practice
• Improve forecast and budget accuracy
• Provide commercial support to stakeholders
• Ensure final accounts are negotiated and agreed
• Lead people and commissions as needed

Key requirements

• Excellent communication
• Contract Management (NEC3, Option C preferred)
• Cost Management
• Change management and control
• Valuation
• Risk Management
• Procurement
• Estimating
• Pricing
• Reporting
• Collaborative approach and best-for-project attitude
• People management
• Commission management
• Identifying and driving efficiencies and improvements through the project lifecycle
• Knowledge of procurement routes, value management and value engineering

• communication
• collaboration
• proactivity
• Cost Management
• Contract Management (NEC3)
• Change management

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