Cost Manager - Commercial Developer

Overview

Manage project costs, from feasibility to post-contract, for commercial development projects.

Key Responsibilities

• cost valuation
• cost reporting
• tender management
• financial tracking
• cost estimation
• client interface

Tasks

-Conduct cost checks and valuations, ensuring accuracy -Negotiate and agree on final accounts -Ensure key information and learnings are input into the internal database -Produce and present monthly post-contract cost reports -Interface with clients and consultants at all project stages -Identify new business opportunities with existing clients -Assist with feasibility studies and procurement reports -Lead cost management team, ensuring accountability -Identify and refer ideas for process improvement -Handle post-contract cost variances and change control -Assess commission management quality and efficiency -Estimate and plan costs, present the final cost plan -Manage tendering, pre-qualification, tender list, preliminaries, analysis, and reports -Improve cost management procedures, templates, and products -Track financial management using FMS -Assist in producing bid documentation

Requirements

• mrics
• quantity surveying
• cost management
• digital
• communication
• large projects

What You Bring

-Experience working on larger projects -Experience working on new build and fit-out projects -Excellent communication skills and client facing. -UK Cost Management experience within the Real Estate/Property sector -Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying -MRICS qualified or working towards -A data and digital led business, with an authority on the economics of sustainability, that will take our service to the next level

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Benefits

-You can realise your career ambitions faster with London’s cost consultancy of choice

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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