Senior Cost Manager – Commercial Developer

Overview

In this role, you will lead cost management activities for real estate and construction projects, ensuring accurate costing, robust governance, and value optimization. You will collaborate with clients and consultants to shape budgets, procurement, and post-contract cost control, supporting large-scale hotel, residential, and office developments. You will drive process improvements and contribute to a data-driven cost management culture. This is an opportunity to impact project outcomes while working in a supportive, inclusive environment aligned with Turner & Townsend’s global advisory mission.

Pay / Benefits

• healthy, productive and flexible working environment
• strong emphasis on work-life balance
• equal opportunity and inclusive culture

Responsibilities

• Assist with feasibility studies and procurement reports
• Estimate and plan costs, present the final cost plan
• Manage tendering, pre-qualification, tender list, preliminaries, analysis, and reports
• Handle post-contract cost variances and change control
• Conduct cost checks and valuations, ensuring accuracy
• Produce and present monthly post-contract cost reports
• Input into value engineering
• Negotiate and agree on final accounts
• Interface with clients and consultants at all project stages
• Lead cost management team, ensuring accountability
• Identify new business opportunities with existing clients
• Assist in producing bid documentation
• Improve cost management procedures, templates, and products
• Ensure key information and learnings are input into the internal database
• Track financial management using FMS
• Identify and refer ideas for process improvement
• Assess commission management quality and efficiency

Key requirements

• MRICS qualified
• UK Cost Management experience within the Real Estate/Property sector
• Experience working on larger projects
• Experience working on new build and fit-out projects
• Excellent communication skills and client facing

• excellent communication
• client-facing
• leadership
• cost estimation
• tendering and procurement
• cost planning

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