Cost Manager - Commercial Development Real Estate

Overview

Manage cost consultancy for large mixed-use real estate developments.

Key Responsibilities

• tender management
• cost estimating
• budget control
• quantity surveying
• post-contract
• client relations

Tasks

-Manage the tender process, review and analyse tender returns and prepare recommendations to the client as well as advice on procurement routes. -Attend meetings, prepare financial reports and monitor on the status of projects. -Ensure the project remains on budget from design to completion phase. -Support junior team members to deliver our cost management service efficiently and effectively. -Produce cost estimates and cost plans. -Manage aspects of quantity surveying and cost consultancy including pre and post contract duties. -Full post contract duties including establishing the effect of variations and evaluating and negotiating final account settlements. -Build and maintain trusted relationships with clients, maintaining the highest standards of professional competence at all times.

Requirements

• microsoft office
• cad
• costx
• quantity surveying
• mrics
• communicator

What You Bring

-Knowledge and experienced in use of Microsoft Office packages, CAD and CostX. -Degree or Masters in Quantity Surveying or equivalent. -First class communicator, capable of establishing and maintaining strong client relationships. -Workplace, retail, commercial or mixed-use sector experience desirable. -Experience of high value and complex projects gained in a consultancy environment. -A data and digital led business, with an authority on the economics of sustainability, that will take our service to the next level -Accredited MRICS member desired but not required.

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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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