Cost Manager - Retail
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Key Responsibilities
- Provide pre-contract cost planning and estimating services during project design phases.
- Prepare and manage project budgets for new and renewal retail projects.
- Conduct procurement and tender evaluation activities.
- Assess progress claims, contract variations, and final accounts.
- Monitor project costs and identify opportunities to improve value and efficiency.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with Woolworths project teams and key stakeholders.
- Engage with local construction and property markets to maintain current market knowledge and cost benchmarks.
- Support effective commission management to ensure successful project delivery.
- Collaborate with cost management and project management teams across multiple locations.
- Deliver accurate reporting, forecasting, and commercial advice.
- Take ownership of deliverables and manage projects independently where required.
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- Strong experience in:
- Desirable
- Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
- We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
- 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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- Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 62 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success. Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions. We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world. Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com
- Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 62 countries.
- Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
- Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
- We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
- Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com
Qualifications
- Degree qualification in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 5 years' experience in Cost Management, Quantity Surveying, or a similar role.
- Strong experience in: Cost planning and estimating Contract administration Procurement and tendering Progress claim assessment Variation management Final account negotiations
- Cost planning and estimating
- Contract administration
- Procurement and tendering
- Progress claim assessment
- Variation management
- Final account negotiations
- Experience managing relationships with clients, contractors, and consultants.
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Current driver's licence.
- Membership or accreditation with RICS and/or AIQS.
- Experience using CostX.
- Previous experience delivering retail, commercial, or multi-site programs of work.
- Exposure to national account or portfolio-based project delivery environments.
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