Cost Intelligence, Data & Benchmarking - Infrastructure

In this role, you will deliver evidence-based, data-driven commercial insights across major infrastructure programmes. You’ll work as an embedded resource or on ad-hoc pieces for clients within the infrastructure sector, shaping cost benchmarks and performance analysis. You’ll collaborate with Digital, Data and Innovation teams to standardise cost data and promote best practice. This is a hands-on, impact-focused position in a growing regional hub with regional and national/International opportunities.

• Develop, maintain and evolve infrastructure cost benchmarks across sectors
• Analyse cost performance across assets, programmes and portfolios
• Identify key cost drivers, trends and systemic variances
• Assist with gathering and sharing estimating data
• Support 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 achieving departmental objectives
• Stay abreast of developments to provide best-practice advice aligned with business objectives

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

• Cost data management
• Cost benchmarking
• Data analytics
• Cost data governance
• Automation of data capture