Turner & Townsend
Cost and Commercial Management - Hospital Construction
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Cost Manager (Health Programme Delivery Partnership) – Turner & Townsend
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people across more than 60 countries.
We partner with clients in real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources to transform projects and deliver impactful outcomes—turning challenges into opportunities and complexity into success. Our capabilities span programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero, and digital solutions.
With CBRE Group as our majority owner—world’s largest commercial real estate firm—we combine expertise to deliver premier programme, project, and cost management globally.
Recent prestigious appointment: Turner & Townsend is now the Programme Delivery Partner for a leading health programme across the UK, supporting hospital construction and refurbishment to enhance modern healthcare access. Following a 2024 strategic review, the government has confirmed a five-year funding wave with secures schemes.
We are looking to recruit multiple Cost roles within this pioneering delivery programme.
About the Role
As a Cost Manager, you will play a critical part in delivering one of the UK’s most significant healthcare infrastructure programmes. This is a long-term, impactful opportunity to shape complex, building-scale programmes and contribute to Client Government’s ambition.
You will embed as part of our Cost Development and Estimating team, ensuring the programme remains: ✔ Cost-effective ✔ Risk-controlled ✔ Robustly grounded in sound-commercial reporting
Location: Nationwide (includes potential regional health sector involvement, to be defined in advance)
Key Responsibilities
Core Personal Attributes
This role requires strong aligned to Turner & Townsend’s “One Business” ethos: - Foster collaboration across the programme - Proactively work across cost management & estimating, including-- • Cost assurance • Risk verification • Data reviews • Commercial risk management - Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills - Proven experience in large-scale programme/major project governance - Ability to build trust and credibility with all stakeholders (internal and external) - Champion continuous improvement—enabling confidence and clarity across complex environments - Neutral, practical mediator: quick to resolve disputes/estimates in a pragmatic, non-adversarial way - Strong team leader who nurtures inclusion
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Overall Client Delivery Goals
- Work closely with **Precontract, Post Contract, Data, Tools, Policies and Risk leads**, delivering proven cost controls
- **Support the client’s cost baseline integrity** by:
· Providing **highly assured commercial decisions**
· Maintaining **proactive risk management** (identifying threats and cost-savings opportunities)
· **Data validation** and **timely reporting**
· Auspicing **impactful stakeholder engagement** with **programme, contractor, and supplier teams**
- Drive **excellence in cost accuracy and transparency**, ensuring full alignment with **client policies and KPIs**
Transactional & Specific Activities
**Programme-Wide Support Users**
- Embed daily compliance with **client’s escalated processes & tools**
- **Perform trusted cost assessments** in change control
- **Validate cost forecasting data** to project-oriented reporting
- **Govern business case development** (including cost risk assessment and client governance sign-off)
- Support **Delivery Project Lead reporting** on cost baseline status
**Client Collaborations**
- **Commercial reporting**:
• Detailed **cost analysis & decision support**
• Anticipative metrics to swiftly influence project outcomes
- Engage with **Trust finance teams** (internal cost consultancy & contractor) to:
· Define cost assurance protocols
· Validate reporting commensurate with **Health Sector guidance**
- Assure **forecasted cost prediction** accuracy, own delivery of:
· Prepost-minimal impact improvements
· Long-term cost savings via **practical cost-service amplification**
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**TRUST Level Support & Mentoring**
- Provide **regional sector expertise** to emerging as mentors and subject-matter resources where needed
- Network engagement & branding-building for potential future roles
Essential Requirements
Your qualifications and experience should provide:
- A measurable track record in cost management, risk assessment and project governance, as applied during major complex project delivery
- Client mind-set/technical polymathy: ability to combine real-world details with creative problem-solving
- Strong affiliations to cost professionals such as: • ICoM (Institutions of Constructors, UK chapter), Member status beneficial • Asbuilt or Chartered project designsavvy beneficial but not mandatory>
- Experience in healthcare or life-sciences construction/consulting, broadly advantageous
- Proficiency or developing interests in cost forecasting software (e.g., Primavera P6, CostX, analogy)
Desirable Advantages
• SOX experience will likely accompany our low-level compliance integrity
Additional Singulars & Immediate Housing
- Confidentiality: All offers meet ESR/BIPA compliance
- Social Media: Turner & Townsend actively engages with candidates via @turnerandt andométrics
- NCND: Complete your application in a manner that meets cybersecurity principles when requested verifiable by 24 hr SOP to be surfaced
- Non-Agency Consent: Please never—under any circumstance—pay to apply.
Benefits
(Balanced below outcomes are standard but should improve with post-immediate impact through the programme.)
✅ Purpose-Driven Work: A lasting track record of shaping needed environments in public & private health ✅ Skills Finance & More: Networks global ratings in impact yield consulting (uk/ies certification programs in evolution) ✅ Collective Helpopenal Benefits: - Flexible home office - Mental health well-being coaches - Cybersecurity training - Pensions, L&D, CPD resources - Sports / volunteering -coming Soon Content: Trio plus benefits after X years
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