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.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com
Job Description
Overview
The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering accurate cost advice, robust cost planning, and commercial leadership across major construction, real estate, or infrastructure projects. This role requires strong technical capability, stakeholder management, and the ability to independently manage multiple project workstreams.
Cost Planning & Estimation
- Lead the preparation of detailed cost estimates, preliminary budgets, and elemental cost plans from concept to detailed design stages.
- Develop benchmarking, cost data, and pricing models to support early-stage estimates.
- Validate design evolution through cost checks and value engineering assessments.
- Use cost estimating platforms such as CostX, Candy, or equivalent tools to perform accurate quantity take‑offs.
Pre‑Contract Commercial Management
- Prepare Bills of Quantities (BQ), tender documents, Schedules of Rates, and procurement packages.
- Manage tender evaluation, analyze bids, and provide detailed commercial recommendations to clients.
- Support procurement strategies aligned with project risk, market conditions, and client objectives.
Post‑Contract Cost Management
- Administer cost control processes including change management, valuation of variations, and claims assessment.
- Prepare detailed cost reports, cashflow forecasts, and contingency tracking.
- Monitor contractor progress claims and validate payments against contract requirements.
- Manage project risks and provide mitigation recommendations during delivery phases.
Client & Stakeholder Engagement
- Serve as a key client interface, presenting cost analyses, progress updates, and commercial insights.
- Build strong, trusted relationships with clients, design teams, and contractors.
- Represent Turner & Townsend in project meetings and commercial negotiations.
Leadership & Team Contribution
- Provide guidance to junior QS team members and support quality control on deliverables.
- Champion Turner & Townsend’s methodologies, processes, and best practices.
- Contribute to business development activities where required, including proposal support and cost data development.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Cost Management, or related discipline.
- Approximately 8 years of relevant experience, ideally in a consultancy environment.
- Strong capability in developing cost plans, pre‑contract documentation, and post‑contract commercial management.
- Proficiency in key cost tools (e.g., CostX, Excel)
- Proven client‑facing skills with ability to communicate technical cost information clearly.
- Strong commercial awareness and understanding of market trends.
- Track record of independently delivering medium‑to‑large projects or packages.
Preferred Qualifications
- Professional membership or progression toward RICS, or equivalent chartership.
- Experience in major sectors such as commercial real estate, infrastructure, industrial, or data centres (advantageous).
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and produce high‑quality deliverables under defined timelines.
Additional Information
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.
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 all sectors of the community.
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