Commercial Lead (Cost Management)

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.

Job Description

• Support the preparation of budgets including detailed cost modeling, benchmarking analysis and presentation of this to senior management.
• Assist in monitoring adherence against budget throughout the project lifespan including cost checks and reviews, value engineering and cost saving initiatives and evaluation of alternates.
• Provide guidance and assist with the orderly development of requests for proposal leading into procurement for design services agreements, owner furnished equipment and general contractor services agreements.
• Support and provide guidance on commercial change management and change evaluation efforts on all projects.
• Advise and intervene appropriately to resolve major contractual claims and disputes as they arise.
• Review analytics for project portfolio cash flow and earned value analysis.
• Monitor the financial close-out on all projects including settlement of all vendors.
• Pro-actively assist in leading all commercial risk management efforts including commercial audits, contingency analysis, risk identification and analysis and management training.
• Review project cost reports and carry out regular reviews of these with senior management.
• Oversee the adherence against company expenditure limits.
• Report status, successes, challenges and key activities to senior management.
• Develop, manage and be accountable for achievement of key commercial metrics.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and develop best practices.
• Train and develop in-house teams on commercial controls and requirements best practices.

Qualifications

• Degree qualifications in quantity surveying, cost management, project management or equivalent.
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in relevant field, preferably with data center experience or high tech project experience.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast paced and high pressure environment, to meet often tight deadlines, and to work pro-actively as part of a committed team
• Fluent in spoken and written English.

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.