Cost & Commercial Manager; NEC - Hospital Construction

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide.

Job Objectives:
Our Cost & Commercial Managers lead commissions of varying sizes, depending upon the complexity of the project, working on projects working on large scale projects.

• To perform the role of the Commercial Manager, taking responsibility for end‑to‑end service delivery or acting as a key element of a wider project team on larger or more complex projects
• To ensure that client objectives are met through the delivery of an effective cost management service from pre contract to handover.

• Knowledge of and experience in the healthcare and/or education sectors is beneficial
• Ability to lead clients through different stages of projects from feasibility through to completion
• Experience of working with NEC suite of contracts
• Demonstrable experience of interfacing with key stakeholders and being “client‑facing” in the role of Commercial Manager
• The candidate will be required to demonstrate knowledge of the risks, challenges and opportunities facing public‑sector healthcare bodies
• Experience of producing monthly post‑contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
• Experience of managing the procurement process, ensuring that all stages including pre‑qualification, enquiry, analysis, selection and contract preparation are performed effectively
• Ability to effectively negotiate and agree final accounts
• Knowledge of contract administration, value engineering and lifecycle costing
• Experience of using CostX or similar measurement software

• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
• Tendering and procuring, including managing the pre‑qualification stage, producing the tender list, creating preliminaries, tender analysis, producing the tender report and compiling the contractual documents.
• Dealing effectively with post‑contract cost variances and the change control processes, where applicable referring major changes to line manager.
• Taking personal responsibility for making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and in all cases ensuring that timely and accurate cost checking and valuation takes place.
• Producing monthly post‑contract cost reports and presenting them to the client.
• Inputting into value engineering.
• Negotiating and agreeing final accounts.
• Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages.
• Where appropriate, leading junior members of the cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on their project accountabilities.

• Ideally Degree qualified in one of the following fields: construction, cost management or Quantity surveying.
• MRICS Qualification.
• Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering.
• Experience of working in Education sector projects would be advantageous.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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.