Associate Cost Manager
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Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Associate Cost Manager to join the Real Estate team in Brisbane, delivering end-to-end cost management across commercial, residential and mixed-use projects onsite. The role puts you at the primary client interface, responsible for cost plans, procurement, tendering, post-contract reporting and forecast accuracy while guiding junior staff and shaping business development. To stand out, align your 6 to 11 years in cost management with real estate development experience and show MRICS, AIQS or progress toward these qualifications. Highlight leadership in multi-stakeholder environments, lifecycle knowledge from feasibility to post-completion, and a proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget. Emphasize client relationships, collaboration, and a proactive approach to process improvements and market opportunities.
Company Description
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 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
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Associate Cost Manager to join our growing Real Estate team, delivering high-quality cost management services across a diverse portfolio of developments including commercial, residential, mixed-use, and urban regeneration projects.
You will take responsibility for end-to-end service delivery, often on large or complex property projects, acting as the key day-to-day client interface to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end cost management across real estate development projects
- Act as the primary client contact, ensuring successful project delivery against cost, time, and quality objectives
- Prepare and manage cost plans, estimates, procurement, and tender processes
- Oversee post-contract activities including cost reporting, valuations, and change control
- Monitor project financial performance, including forecasting and resource management
- Build strong relationships with clients, developers, and project stakeholders
- Support business development through bids, client engagement, and market opportunities
- Mentor junior team members and contribute to team and process improvements
Qualifications
Education & Professional Accreditation
- Degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Property, or a related discipline
- MRICS, AIQS or equivalent professional qualification (or working towards)
Experience & Skills
- 6–11 year's experience in cost management or quantity surveying
- Proven experience delivering consultancy services on real estate or property developments
- Experience leading cost management commissions on medium to large-scale commercial, residential, or mixed-use projects
- Strong understanding of the full real estate development lifecycle, from feasibility through to post-completion
- Solid knowledge of construction and commercial principles, including procurement routes, value management, and cost control
- Experience managing or mentoring teams within a project environment
- Strong client-facing, communication, and stakeholder management skills
Additional Information
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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