Senior Cost Manager - Civil - Ahmedabad

Company Description

Working in partnership with our clients, we deliver major projects and programmes with skill and precision, by focusing on outcomes and driving high performance. 

Delivering innovative solutions and exceptional outcomes across our sectors, we drive the success of our client’s projects and programmes through effective planning, highly skilled teams, and rigorous controls.

Our capabilities include asset management, controls and performance, cost and commercial management, digital, procurement and supply chain, programme advisory, project management and sustainability. Backed by our extensive experience, we focus on outcomes to transform client’s projects and programmes.

With over 133 offices across 47 countries, we are an organisation of over GBP 1.5 billion turnover and 12,000+ talented team members across the world.  In 2025, we are combining with CBRE’s Project Management business to create the premier, differentiated programme, project, and cost management capability globally.  Through this change, our profile in Asia will scale significantly, comprising a team of over 4000 staff across all major countries in region.  The combination of our programme management and project management and commercial management capabilities will provide a unique opportunity to do things for our clients.

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Main Purpose:

To perform the role of the Commission Manager, taking responsibility for end to end service delivery, often with respect to large or complex commissions.

To act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met through the delivery of a value added cost management service.

Key Responsbilities:

Finance

• Ensure the FMS is updated with accurate fee/cost forecasts, job open/closed, etc in order to provide an accurate monthly WIP
• Utilising TIC sheets in order to keep track of the ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for each commission Ensure invoices are raised in a timely manner
• Ensure invoices are raised in a timely manner

Service Delivery

• Handle commissions of varying sizes, depending upon the complexity of the project
• Conducting feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
• Applying Value Management techniques at the outset of a project and where appropriate involving Turner & Townsend’s specialist Value Management team
• Managing estimating and cost planning activities to include taking ownership of and presenting the final cost plan
• Managing the procurement process, ensuring that all stages including pre-qualification, enquiry, analysis, selection and contract preparation are performed effectively
• Ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively.
• Finance
• Ensure the FMS is updated with accurate fee/cost forecasts, job open/closed, etc in order to provide an accurate monthly WIP
• Utilising TIC sheets in order to keep track of the ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for each commission Ensure invoices are raised in a timely manner
• Ensure invoices are raised in a timely manner

Service Delivery

• Handle commissions of varying sizes, depending upon the complexity of the project
• Conducting feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
• Applying Value Management techniques at the outset of a project and where appropriate involving Turner & Townsend’s specialist Value Management team
• Managing estimating and cost planning activities to include taking ownership of and presenting the final cost plan
• Managing the procurement process, ensuring that all stages including pre-qualification, enquiry, analysis, selection and contract preparation are performed effectively
• Ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively
• Ensuring that cost checking and valuation work is managed effectively
• Ensuring the production of monthly post-contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
• Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed
• Taking a lead role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages
• Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all of the above accountabilities

Business Development

• Work with the AD/Director  for developing new business opportunities with existing and new Turner & Townsend clients
• Identifying and acting upon cross-selling opportunities
• Working with Associate Directors and Directors to write bids for new work
• Attending bid presentations with  Associate Directors and Directors

Human Resources

• Undertake Performance reviews, set their annual objectives in line with your own objective, address their L&D needs, chart their career goal plans
• Take administrative responsibility of the team like signing off their time sheets, expenses
• Maintain an optimum level of resource utilisation and work the with AD/Director for hiring of resources

Environment Policy

• Should adhere to the company’s global environmental policy.

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Education - B.E/B.Tech (Civil)

You should have relevant experience of working preferably for a construction consultancy in India/abroad, hold a graduate degree preferably in Cost Management and possesses good technical skills.

A thorough understanding of the total project life cycle, from project conception stage, through all of the operational stages to completion and post-project review.

10 to 15 years work experience with demonstrated career growth graph.

Experience in multiple sub sectors within the property projects will be added advantage.

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Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com

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