Senior Cost Manager at Turner & Townsend Tanzania

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

Turner & Townsend is currently recruiting for a Senior Cost Manager to join our growing Cost Management team in our Tanzania office, with a willingness to work on-site in Zanzibar

Key Accountabilities

Pre-Contract

• Developing cost plans and estimates through the design phase, delivering updated cost plans at appropriate design milestones.
• Providing commercial input to design optioneering and input into value engineering exercises.
• Reviewing contractor and subcontractor pricing and leading negotiations on behalf of the client to drive fair contract prices.

Post-Contract

• Performing quantity surveying, cost controls and change management activities throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively.
• Ensuring that cost auditing and valuation work is managed effectively and that a robust process for cost validation is in place.
• Carrying out the production of monthly cost reports for presentation to the client.
• Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed in a timely manner.
• Compiling as built cost estimate records for benchmarking purposes.

Qualifications

Essential

• The candidate should have a minimum of 10 years of relevant cost management experience.
• The candidate should at a minimum bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Construction Engineering, Architecture, Civil Engineering, or a related construction degree; or equivalent years of transferable field experience.
• A professional qualification i.e., RICS or similar certification
• A thorough knowledge of Cost Management methods and best practices.
• A thorough knowledge of forecasting, budgeting, planning, design, schedule, and scope management
• Have the technical skills to read, understand, and communicate contract requirements including construction drawings and specifications and interpret construction methods.
• Technology competent in using the following Software: MS Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
• Experience with the FIDIC Contract Suite.

Desirable

• Experience of working in large-scale sports developments

The candidate should have the following soft skills.

• Strong people skills, comfortable working with a diverse range of personalities across clients and partner organizations
• Ability to engage and manage multiple stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and numerical skills and flexibility to rapidly understand complex problems and shape these into workable solutions for delivery.
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to develop concise and effective written presentations and participate effectively in meetings with senior client representatives.

Additional Information

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