Cost Manager - MEP (Interior Fit-out & Data Center)

About the Role

The Cost Manager role is situated within the Real Estate department and is responsible for overseeing cost management services on construction projects, ensuring that cost control and quality targets align with client expectations while fostering a collaborative project environment. The position requires interfacing with clients and multidisciplinary consultants throughout all project phases, producing regular cost reports, supporting tendering and procurement activities, and contributing to continuous improvement of cost management tools and knowledge sharing within the organisation. • Provide pre‑contract and post‑contract cost management services, including estimating, rate analysis and cost planning. • Develop and present final cost plans to clients. • Manage tendering and procurement: pre‑qualification, tender list, preliminaries, tender analysis, tender report and contractual documents. • Handle post‑contract cost variances and support change control processes, escalating major changes. • Produce monthly post‑contract cost reports and present them to clients. • Interface with clients and consultants throughout project stages. • Identify and propose improvements to cost management procedures, templates and products. • Capture project learnings into Turner & Townsend internal knowledge database. • Collaborate with the cost management team and mentor Assistant Cost Managers. • Ensure 100 % compliance with internal governance and external regulatory standards.

Key Responsibilities

• ▸cost estimating
• ▸tender management
• ▸cost reporting
• ▸change control
• ▸process improvement
• ▸client interface

What You Bring

Candidates should hold a relevant bachelor’s degree (master’s preferred), possess 6–8 years of experience in cost management or related construction roles, and be proficient in Cost‑X or similar software, with strong communication skills and fluency in the local language and business‑level English. Performance will be measured against client satisfaction and compliance with governance and regulatory standards. • Bachelor’s degree in Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, Construction, Engineering or related field (Master’s a plus). • 6–8 years’ experience in cost management or construction projects. • Strong knowledge of quantity surveying tools and methodologies. • Native‑level proficiency in local language and business‑level English. • Proficiency with Cost‑X or equivalent cost estimation software. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. • Achieve ≥ 85 % client and internal stakeholder satisfaction in post‑project reviews.

Requirements

• ▸bachelor's
• ▸6-8 years
• ▸quantity surveying
• ▸cost‑x
• ▸bilingual
• ▸communication

Work Environment

Onsite