Assistant Cost Managers - Real Estate

Overview

Support cost managers on feasibility, estimating, tendering and cost control for real estate.

Key Responsibilities

• cost estimating
• tender management
• value engineering
• cost reporting
• client liaison
• change control

Tasks

-Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages -Assisting on feasibility studies and writing procurement reports -Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan -Negotiating and agreeing final accounts -Tendering and procuring, including managing the pre-qualification stage, producing the tender list, putting the preliminaries together, tender analysis, producing the tender report and compiling the contractual documents -Inputting into value engineering -Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all of the above accountabilities -Producing monthly post contract cost reports and presenting them to the client -Taking personal responsibility for making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and in all cases ensuring that timely and accurate cost checking and valuation takes place -Dealing effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control processes, where applicable referring major changes to line manager

Requirements

• procurement
• project management
• it systems
• commission manager
• value engineering
• chartership

What You Bring

-Good knowledge of the main procurement methods and their application with respect to the 'tactical procurement' of small to medium sized buildings -Ability to successfully manage and prioritise more than one project at a time. -Experience of utilising a range of industry standard processes and systems (IT and other) in order to effectively deliver a project. -Experience of acting as Commission Manager on small to medium sized projects, or at least sufficient related experience to enable a step up to performing the role of Commission Manager -Knowledge and understanding of value engineering -Working towards Chartership -Good technical grounding in all of the main areas of cost management and contractor a background -Degree or HNC level qualification

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About Turner & Townsend Alinea

-Join forces with a global advisory leader to shake up real‑estate cost management. -Grew on backbone of bold city skyscrapers and landmark estates—from the Shard to Battersea Power Station and Wimbledon grounds. -Drives high‑stakes projects across sectors like data centres, life sciences labs, tall commercial towers and mixed‑use regeneration. -Takes cost control beyond numbers: digital tools and technical firepower fuel value‑led delivery in complex builds. -Packed with specialist micro‑teams—for façades, MEP, infrastructure and utilities—the London arm brings niche depth. -Blends boutique expertise with global muscle: a disruptive hybrid serving developer, investor and end‑user needs. -Anchored in capital’s skyline, yet stretching into transport, health, education, energy and hospitality projects.

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