Turner & Townsend
Cost Manager (NRM1)
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Senior Cost Manager (NRM1/2) – Health Programme Delivery
About Turner & Townsend
At Turner & Townsend, we’re driven by a mission: to create lasting impact through better project outcomes. Our work spans major global programmes across over 110 offices, helping clients deliver ambitious, high-value projects that shape tomorrow.
We’re proud to be appointed as the Programme Delivery Partner for a leading UK health programme, focusing on hospital construction and refurbishment to enhance access to modern healthcare. This is part of the government’s five-year strategic review, rebalancing funding for hospital schemes in transformative waves.
Role Overview
As a Senior Cost Manager with NRM1/2 expertise, you’ll play a pivotal role in our Cost function—delivering excellence in cost management, estimating and assurance within one of the most significant health infrastructure programmes in the UK.
You’ll focus on:
- Mobilising a multi-disciplinary team
- Providing strategic cost leadership across programme delivery
- Ensuring compliant, value-driven outcomes
Core Responsibilities
Principal Accountabilities
- Actively foster a "One Business" culture, promoting collaboration, transparency and inclusive ways of working across the programme.
- Lead cost management & estimating functions across all project stages, ensuring consistency, accuracy and alignment with NRM1/2 methodologies.
- Take a strategic and proactive approach, delivering cost excellence in complex, large-scale programmes spanning healthcare infrastructure.
- Build trust and credibility with internal/external stakeholders as an influential cost partner.
- Contribute to continuously improved processes and lessons learnt, supporting a climate of active learning across technical, operational and commercial stakeholders.
- Demonstrate commercial acumen and assertive yet pragmatic problem-solving, resolving conflicts both on behalf of the programme and with external teams.
Client General
- Collaborate with Cost, Risk, Data, Tools & Policies, and Precontract functions to provide rigorous cost control, assurance and governance at a scheme/project level.
- Maintain the integrity of the approved baseline—ensuring controlled expenditure whilst enabling flexible cost management.
- Align all commercial activities with centralised client policies, driving high standards in cost management and financial risk mitigation.
- Deliver high quality, service-focused outputs, meeting the requirements of all programme stakeholders.
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Client-Specific Deliverables
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Tool adoption and innovation:
- Integrate client tools/products where appropriate, developing processes that support long-term predictability, efficiency and cost savings.
- Support the continual development of client initiatives and bespoke tasks throughout project lifecycles.
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Governance & assurance:
- Actively participate in cost governance, providing evidence-based, managed risk insights for commercial decisions.
- Support revised business cases and governance reviews, including risk assessment considerations.
- Engage with multiple stakeholders (Trusts, advisors, contractors) to ensure consistent cost controls and mitigations are in place.
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Commercial contributions:
- Provide detailed cost analysis, and financial verification to inform contract enforceability and project direction.
- Ensure robust data handling and rigorous challenge when reconciling contractual positions.
- Facilitate real-time decision-making where economic or contractual risks may arise, taking ownership of cost resolving solutions and mitigations.
Key deliverables against the national scheme programme
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Regional engagement & knowledge exchange:
- Support our regional health sector team by offering strategic expertise, development pathways and mentoring opportunities.
- Contribute to the national health team’s shared growth plan and ongoing progress as a PEO.
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Networking and advocacy:
- Engage with events, representing the function’s expertise and identities—positively networking to shape sector outcomes.
Minimum Qualifications & Experience
- Demonstrable working knowledge of NRM1/2 and its application across projects of diverse scale and complexity.
- Experience delivering urban renewal programmes on behalf of major public sector clients, balancing cost and commercial strategy whilst maintaining robust governance.
- Relevant technical or professional qualification (e.g. RIBA NC مك Poclicated membership, CIBSE, MICE, or CEng).
- Extensive understanding of healthcare facility investments and capital spend lifecycles or domain experience working within a groups of high-temperature projects.
- Proven strengths in financial quantifications and reporting, emphasizing values that align with strategic decisions.
- Ability to challenge contract positions and establish stakeholder trust while steering conflict/issues through clear communication and maintaining relationships.
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Additional Attributes
- Access to digital project management software is advantageous, including risk-tracking, data analysis and analytics.
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Commitment and Correspondence
Confidentiality Policy
All application information will be treated strictly confidentially, aligned with Equal Employment Opportunity guidance.
SOX Compliance
This role may involve scope for adherence to SOX obligations where applicable.
Public Company Participation
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Social Media presence:
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- Twitter/X : @TurnFields
Recruitment Policy Clarity:
Respect to candidate payments: No fees will be required at any stage of your application with Turner & Townsend. If you receive unsolicited solicitations or are asked to pay to apply, a company’s contact other.
- Any CV or application submitted will be deemed Turner & Townsend’s sole property and will not attract fees unless invoking structured and independent quota formally passed.
- Turner & Townsend adheres to Job Seekers’ Provision—our policies align with professional integrity. Turner & Townsend will never exploit requests from unplanned and everyday candidates/devil users.
- Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted direct to Turner & Townsend’s personal e-mail accounts will not be that subtracting fee and will be handled factually sealed and securely reviewed.
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