Cost & Commercial Lead - Industrial/ Life Sciences

**Company Description**
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services organisation that provides consultancy, delivery, operations and programme management services to Life Sciences, Pharma, Industrial, Manufacturing, Distribution & Logistics sectors globally.

To deliver consistently excellent advice to our clients, we mobilise expert, flexible and entrepreneurial people who are at the very top of their profession and are inspired to deliver to make the difference. We provide world-class learning and development and knowledge management to everyone across the business, at every stage of their career.

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 125 offices worldwide.
- Responsible for total cost management of projects delivering positive outcomes for our clients, demonstrating leadership, coaching, and innovation of service and knowledge.
- Carry out cost management and contract administration duties with reasonable supervision and guidance
- Lead Cost Manager for new built project
- Provide Cost Advice and Cost Planning including estimate, comparative design studies, life cycle costing, turnover/cash flow projections, cost control and cost report during pre-contract period.
- 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
- To run the procurement process from all stages in pre-qualification such as quotation enquiry, analysis, selection and contract preparation
- Provide Documentation including Tender Document, Tender Report, Pre-contract correspondence, LOA and contract documents.
- Monitor and verifying VO, Claims, Payment, Final Account and attending project meetings. Produce monthly cost reports.
- Knowledge management - Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each commission is input into the internal database
- Process improvement - Identifying ways in which internal systems and processes can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager
- Provide CM role pro-actively and professionally and interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages

**Qualifications**
- This is a client-side position which is full-time based on the construction site.
- Reports to both the project director and the client.
- At least 10 years of experience in commercial management of international industrial, science or data centre experience.
- Some experience delivering projects within a General Contractor would be highly preferred.
- Proficient in both local language and English, both verbal and written.
- End-to-end responsible for the cost and commercial activities with the goal of executing the project within the approved budget while driving the project schedule forward.
- Strong knowledge on both local and international contract documents, combined with a strong understanding of the different types of pricing strategies.
- Experience in cashflow forecasting, accruals, procurement of multidisciplinary packages, construction interfaces and commercial reporting.
- Responsible to lead the cost and commercial management team from the client-side on site.
- Understanding and preparation of earned value management to monitor project performance.

**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. We also encourage our staff to strive to ‘make a difference’ and become involved in various working committees and forums (for example, Inclusion Working Group, Social & Wellness, Learning & Development, Corporate Social Responsibilities and Net Zero Vision).

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