Lead Cost Manager

vor 2 Wochen


Zurich, Schweiz Turner & Townsend Vollzeit

Company Description
- Turner & Townsend is a global professional services organisation that provides consultancy, delivery, operations and programme management services to Life Science, Pharmaceutical and Biotech organizations that are building or renewing their facilities._
- To deliver consistently excellent advice to our clients, we mobilize 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._
- Our services are underpinned by our market-leading digital products, collectively providing a single source of truth to deliver predictable outcomes, everywhere._
- As we move forward with the expansion of our European Life Sciences business we now seek experienced _**_Lead Cost Managers _**_who will join us in helping us deliver these demanding, high value, complex projects._

**Job Description**:
We are seeking **Lead** **Cost Manager **to act as the day-to-day interface with our clients driving projects to achieve an excellent outcome. You will Lead on cost on a major Pharma project. You will have a solid understanding of pre-contract cost planning and estimating activities as well as post-contract commercial management and will bring your practical expertise and best practice experience and be comfortable operating in a client-facing role, leading teams and managing difficult stakeholders.

**Key Elements**:

- Lead on all aspects of Cost.
- Overall responsibility for the provide of estimates and cost planning including producing and presenting the final cost plan.
- Ability to estimate at conceptual, programming and detailed level.
- Assist on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports.
- Overall responsibility for all aspects of procurement, including managing the pre-qualification stage, produce bid list, bid analysis, produce bid report, and compile contractual documents.
- Participate effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes, where applicable refer major changes to line manager.
- Manage cost checks and carry out valuations on larger projects, and ensure timely and accurate cost checking, and valuation process.
- Produce monthly post contract cost reports and present to client.
- Provide input into value engineering; negotiate and approve final accounts.
- Maintain liaison with client and other consultants at all projects stages.
- Provide leadership to cost management team when necessary, ensure the delivery on all of accountabilities.
- Identify opportunities to develop new business with existing clients and report such opportunities to appropriate line manager, and utilize marketing database.
- Identify improvements for cost management procedures, templates, and products, and refer ideas to appropriate line manager.

**Your qualifications and experience**:

- Technical expert in all cost management areas; pre-contract, post contract and final account.
- Strong understanding of all mechanical, process, electrical, and plumbing systems, as they relate to construction of projects - and/or
- Strong understanding of all civils, structural and architectural aspects as they relate to construction of projects
- Experienced Leader of cost management on medium or large sized construction projects of high complexity.
- Experience with advising clients on value management, value engineering, and life cycle costing.
- Expert on construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value engineering.
- Excellent presentation, both verbal and written.
- Great organizational skills; ability to multi-task and be a team player.

**Qualifications**:

- Minimum of 10 years’ experience preparing cost estimates.
- Experience in pharma, commercial, data center, high-tech, healthcare, manufacturing Industries preferred.
- RICS or equivalent accreditation (or working towards). Member of a Professional Institute preferred.

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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