Turner & Townsend
Senior Cost Manager
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Senior Cost Manager Turner & Townsend – Glasgow, UK
About Turner & Townsend
A leading global professional services firm specialising in programme, project, cost, asset, and commercial management across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources. With 22,000+ employees in over 60 countries, we deliver transformative projects that improve lives. Turned is part of the CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate firm.
Our expertise spans pathfinder programmes, procurement, supply chains, net-zero solutions, and digital transformation. Through client collaboration, we tackle challenge and complexity, ensuring real-world impact across sectors like transportation, utilities, and highways.
Explore our work: www.turnerandtownsend.com
Role Overview
We’re recruiting an experienced Cost Manager to progress into a Senior Cost Manager role within our Glasgow Infrastructure team. This position offers exceptional career development, sectoral diversification (transport, utilities, highways), and hands-on project engagement aligned with our award-winning infrastructure programmes.
The ideal candidate is motivated by growth, mentorship, and non-negotiable excellence—someone eager to thrive in a culturally inclusive environment where collaborative, projects-first culture drives measurable impact.
Key Responsibilities
Your role will lead cost management on cutting-edge infrastructure projects, driving efficiency, commercial acumen, and technical accountability through every stage—from tender to final account reconciliation.
Project Execution & Stakeholder Engagement
- Establish and nurture professional relationships with clients, contractors, contractors’ designers, and senior project teams. Cultivate trust, transparency, and consistency in project delivery.
- Administer commercial contracts (preferably NEC3 Option C) with precision and clarity, upholding project financial governance.
- Lead cost monitoring, forecasting, and reporting to ensure timely, accurate regulatory submissions—delivering completion-calibrated cost certainty.
Strategic Risk & Financial Control
- Actively track and mitigate contract cash flow variances while ensuring applications for payment are accurate and compliant.
- Collaborate with client and contractor stakeholders to align workflows, objectives, and KPIs:
- Programme performance delivery
- Cost control initiatives
- Value engineering measures to resolve challenges
- Managing contract change requests effectively and responsibly, safeguarding adherence to internal governance while adopting best practice.
- Drive improvements in budget accuracy and forecasting methodologies, reducing variance proactively.
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Change Leadership & Commercial Guidance
- Provide sound commercial expertise and risk mitigation strategies to all project stakeholders, from executives to field delivery teams.
- Negotiate and sign-off final accounts and commercial settlements, verifying deductions and outstanding balances professionally.
- Lead and coach designations, mentoring junior team members where required.
What We Look For
Candidates will bring technical proficiency in the following areas. No experience is only a conviction—we value curiosity and roadmap.
Must-Have Experience & Skills
- Minimum 5+ years in cost management/estimation, preferably in infra-housing projects; a commercial background in construction procurement AND contract management demanded.
- Experience managing projects under NEC3 (with a preference for Option C).
- Excellent command of construction industry terminology, including timelined risk management (detailing retention schedules, EOT defences).
- Fit for People Management (mentoring/growing small teams), and Commission Management in AAVs and performance-based structures.
- Actions, contract compliance govern all financial transactions with SOX control compliance awareness (aware of US sector later exposure).
Technical Qualities
- Strong foundation in cost modelling, asset pricing, and commercial change management.
- Proven skill in value engineering techniques to maximise outcomes within budget constraints.
- Risk segmentation skillsets—mitigating commercial exposure with best practice.
- Flexibility and commitment to continuous professional development, whether through exam accommodations, mentorship, or apprenticeships.
- Reporting Discipline: presenting historical data and proactive forecasting power to clients and governing bodies.
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Ideal—but not mandatory—candidates will hold a relevant degree or demonstrate equivalent demonstrated academic/commercial experience via membership of a recognised professional body.
Why Join Turner & Townsend?
- Make lasting change: Join a leaner, high-performance culture where technical impact defines career progress. Our clients look to us for discipline and innovation.
- Transform how you work:
- Leadership Excellence: mentor junior roles, cross-enable technical expertise, and contribute to project learning.
- Capacity for personal growth: pathways for qualification advancement, from RIP to step 1 AFGC accreditation.
- Flexible, supportive environment: Work-Life Balance prioritised. Adaptable working policies—employee engagement: projects that reflect your values.
- Unwavering commitment to inclusion: Equality and diversity are embedded into how we recruit, advance, and reward talent. No single sector is privileged.
Who We Are and What Values Guide You
"We’ll succeed if we bring skill to successful commercial outcomes for our clients—and professional pride as a hallmark."
Let your expertise drive projects that embed lifetime value. Your ability to drive collaborative clarity in complex teams will be integral.
Apply in line with diversity and accessibility needs: Putting you first in our vision for Turner & Townsend.
Important Recruitment Note secut to free-to-apply principle: heed Turner & Townsend’s commitment to open, transparent recruitment. No recruitment agency representing this role may ever ask candidates for a payment. All efforts in Glasgow projects are handled with client confidentiality—and an expectation of committed collaboration.
Record parameters must align with rules from Procurement Management Manual and NEC3 Contract Works. Explore further at www.turnerandtownsend.com.
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