**Company Description**:
- At Turner & Townsend we're passionate about making the difference.
That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to 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 108 offices in 45 countries worldwide._
- Our team is dynamic, innovative and client focused.
Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver.
As a result, our people get to work on some of the most exciting projects in the world._
The Cost Manager, also known as Quantity Surveyor, ensures building projects remain within budget.
This role provides cost and material estimates, draw up projected budgets, and work alongside a team, noting any design changes and their effect on cost.
Cost Manager often liaises with builders, architects, engineers, and other contractors.
This role is to provide cost control and estimating services on our technology client's Data Centre construction programs.
The Cost Manager demonstrates a methodical approach and superb interpersonal skills.
Outstanding Cost Manager is not only great at analysing costs, but they also know how to read people and tailor their negotiation strategies to ensure the best possible outcome.
**Qualifications**:
**Education / Experience**:
- Bachelor´s Degree in Quantity Surveying, Architecture, Civil - Mechanical Engineering or related
- Minimum of 7 years professional experience.
- High degree of accuracy and local market cost knowledge
- Fluent English & Spanish
- RICS, "preferable" AACE CCP, CCT "preferable"
**Responsibilities**:
- _ Assisting on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports_
- _ Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan_
- _ Development of the cost procedures.
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- _Tendering and procuring, including managing the pre-qualification stage, producing the tender list, putting the preliminaries together, 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_
- _ Review and approve subcontractor proposals, manage contracts and change requests.
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- _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_
- _ Analyse the project budget, monitor expenditure and costs against delivered products and services;_
- _ Report the progress at regular intervals with the SCM, and manage communications with all stakeholders until project delivery and financial close out; Producing monthly post contract cost reports and presenting them to the client_
- _ Review monthly reports as presented by Contractor, and present to the SCM and Client _
- _Inputting into value engineering_
- _ Negotiating and agreeing final accounts_
- _ Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages_
- _ Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all of the above accountabilities_
- _ Process improvement -Identifying ways in which internal systems and processes can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager_
**Skills and Qualifications**:
- _ Ability to work under pressure to deliver deadlines_
- _ Good communication skills to systematically explain concepts, methodology.
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- _Lead teams_
- _ Negotiation Management_
**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._
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