Cost Intelligence, Data & Benchmarking - Infrastructure

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.

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Job Description

Owing to continued demand and our ambitious plans for growth, Turner & Townsend are looking to recruit Cost Intelligence, Data & Benchmarking professionals to enhance our capability in providing evidence‑based, data‑driven commercial insights across major infrastructure programmes. The role focuses on leveraging project, portfolio and market cost data to improve affordability, predictability and performance across capital infrastructure investment. You will support clients in making informed decisions across the full asset lifecycle — from business case and option selection through delivery, assurance and portfolio optimisation.

The North East & Yorkshire region has been successful in securing a number of long term frameworks supporting a wide range of major programmes and portfolios of work. We are flexible on location, these opportunities are available across the region within our Newcastle, Teesside, Sheffield and Leeds offices.

You will be making the difference for our clients by supporting them as an embedded resource within their organisation or through ad-hoc pieces of work for multiple clients across the Infrastructure sector as part of Turner & Townsend. Although our work is predominantly for regionally based clients, as workload requires, our people have the opportunity to work remotely (within region) on tasks for our clients both nationally and internationally.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain and evolve infrastructure cost benchmarks across a range of sectors;
• Analyse cost performance across assets, programmes and portfolios;
• Identification of key cost drivers, trends and systemic variances;
• Assist with the gathering and sharing of estimating data;
• Support the automated capture, standardisation and governance of cost data across infrastructure programmes;
• Work closely with Digital, Data and Innovation teams;
• Support development and promotion of good practice within Turner & Townsend;
• Assist in the achievement of departmental objectives;
• Staying abreast of developments within own technical area of expertise to be able to give best practice advice in line with business objectives.

Key skills:

• Strong understanding of infrastructure cost structures and delivery models;
• Experience working with cost data, benchmarks and analytics on large or complex programmes;
• Ability to identify meaningful insights from complex datasets;
• Commercial awareness of infrastructure markets.

Qualifications

• Experience in infrastructure cost management, cost intelligence, benchmarking or data analytics;
• Background in consultancy, client‑side infrastructure organisations or major contractors preferred;
• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Economics, Construction Management, Data Analytics or similar;
• Progress towards or membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. RICS) desirable.

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.

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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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.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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.