Associate Director, Cost Management (MEP)

Full Time, onsite
Turner & Townsend
Singapore, Singapore

Salary undisclosed

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Company DescriptionWorking 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.Job Description

Act as Commission Manager, taking responsibility for end-to-end service delivery, often with respect to large or complex commissions or multiple 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.
Managing estimating and cost planning activities to include taking ownership of and presenting the final cost plan.
Ensuring the production of monthly post-contract cost reports and presenting them to the client.
Leading value engineering and life cycle costing exercise.
Motivate team members, and drive towards positive client outcomes and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Critically analyze, challenge and brainstorm project requirements and deliverables, in order to find creative solutions and alternatives on behalf of clients.
To lead a cost management team, ensuring that the team members deliver on all accountabilities.
To identify & act upon opportunities to improve cost management procedures, templates and products and hence improve the service provided to clients.
To take line management responsibility as required.

Qualifications

Degree qualifications in Quantity Surveying, construction management, engineering or similar discipline with more than 15 years' work experience.
Experience from consultancy background, well versed with mechanical and electrical (M&E) work experience.
Experience working on a range of projects across industry sectors particularly in public sector, mixed development, industrial, semiconductor, lifescience/pharma, data center, hi tech, infrastructure etc
Excellent communication skills
Strong business acumen, with the ability to drive outcomes on behalf of clients, develop new business, leverage current opportunities, and coordinate with construction and design teams to meet deadlines and deliverables
Experience in client management with solid experience in client facing environment that requires incumbent to utilize critical business development skills and advisory skills to enhance project delivery on value management, value engineering and life cycle costing.

Additional InformationOur 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#LI-AP5Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.