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Senior Cost Manager

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Hiring Remotely in Singapore, SGP
Senior level
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Hiring Remotely in Singapore, SGP
Senior level
Lead cost management across complex construction projects: manage estimating and cost planning, deliver monthly post-contract cost reports, lead value engineering and life-cycle costing, implement cost controls, manage commercial negotiations, and lead multidisciplinary teams and client engagement.
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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

Team Leadership & Development

  • Hold the highest level of professional integrity and business ethics.
  • Contribute to a positive team culture by promoting open communication, mutual respect, and shared accountability.
  • Demonstrate professionalism, reliability, and a proactive attitude in team interactions.
  • Motivate team members, and drive towards positive client outcomes and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • Assist in onboarding new team members and helping them integrate into project workflows.
  • Assist in conducting interviews for vacant positions in line with the team’s recruitment process and resource requirements.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

  • Lead multidisciplinary project teams including clients, consultants, contractors, and suppliers.
  • Build productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders through consistent follow-up and responsiveness.
  • Support conflict resolution and issue management by escalating appropriately and offering practical solutions.
  • Facilitate effective communication and collaboration across all stakeholders through structured meetings, reporting, and documentation.

Project Strategy & Planning

  • Critically analyze, challenge and brainstorm project requirements and cost deliverables, in order to find creative solutions and alternatives on behalf of clients.
  • Collaborate in developing robust cost reporting structures and control mechanisms.

Project Controls & Reporting

  • Act as Commission Manager, taking responsibility for end-to-end service delivery, often with respect to large or complex commissions or multiple commissions.
  • Managing estimating and cost planning activities to include taking ownership of and presenting the final revisions of cost plans.
  • Leading the production of monthly post-contract cost reports and presenting them to the client.
  • Leading value engineering and life cycle costing exercise.
  • Implement and maintain cost controls mechanisms incorporated into projects’ schedule, cost, risk, and change management.

Financial and Risk Management

  • Lead commercial negotiations and contract administration on projects alongside the cost management team
  • Responsible for supporting the internal risk management procedures and systems, including client care processes and the contract database.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, Construction, Engineering, or a related field; Master’s degree is a plus.
  • Minimum 7 years’ experience in cost management or construction projects (e.g. cost manager, construction manager, procurement, project manager, vendor, consultant etc.).
  • Strong communication and leadership skills; experience in people management in a plus.
  • Strong business acumen, with the ability to drive outcomes on behalf of clients and coordinate with construction and design teams to meet deadlines and deliverables
  • Experience in client management with solid experience in client facing environment that requires incumbent to utilise critical business development skills and advisory skills to enhance project delivery on value management, value engineering, and life cycle costing.
  • Native-level proficiency and Business-level proficiency in English.
  • Proficiency in Cost-X or equivalent cost estimation software.

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.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review. 

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