Associate Director

Turner & Townsend•New York, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves leading a specialist Estimating team on client commissions, ensuring delivery of all accountabilities. The Associate Director will interface with clients, stakeholders, and consultants throughout project stages, maintaining strong relationships and ensuring alignment on work scopes and requirements. A key aspect of the role is preparing and assessing cost risk assessments at various levels (project, program, company) and advising clients on their impact. The position also focuses on identifying opportunities to enhance cost management procedures, templates, and products for both the company and its clients. Ensuring that project-generated information and learnings are inputted into internal databases and shared is crucial for driving continuous improvement, best practices, and maintaining up-to-date market information for accurate cost estimates and analysis. The role includes leading proposals for new work, managing contract variations, and attending networking events to expand market visibility and strengthen relationships. Staff management responsibilities include performance reviews, recruitment interviews, resource and workload planning, and coaching team members. Financial management involves utilizing estimating tools to monitor project performance, ensure accurate fee and resource forecasts, and report monthly status to Directors. Collaboration with design services teams, general contractors, JV partners, and subcontractors is essential for developing cost estimates, including detailed reviews of market pricing, Target Maximum Budgets, proposals, scope assumptions, subcontractor pricing, and risk assessments. Quality control and assurance are paramount, ensuring estimates and proposals comply with quality standards and external audits. The role also requires communicating with general contractors, subcontractors, and owner project managers for status updates and preparing written comments on submissions. Coordination of all cost information sources, benchmarking estimates against market conditions, and maintaining market pricing databases are also key functions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management
7 years of experience in job offered or 7 years of experience in the Related Occupation
Was responsible for delivery of project estimates on time and to the quality required including reporting and presenting to client managers and ensuring satisfactory completeness and accuracy along with delivering Estimate Basis Reports and presenting at Estimate and Schedule Assurance Reviews.
Coordinated with other disciplines including Scheduling and Risk Management and Design and Engineering teams which included leading other team members or disciplines to ensure delivery of the estimate on time and to the required standard.
Interfaced with the client, stakeholders, and other consultants, at all project stages.
Ensured strong relationships and alignment on all work scopes and requirements that must be reflected in the project estimates and forecast costs.
Prepared and assessed project level, program level and company level cost risk assessments and advised on their impact to clients.
Identified opportunities to improve cost management procedures, templates and products both for company and their clients.
Staff management- Performed resource planning and workload planning and reporting for current and upcoming projects.
Worked as a team and developed overall improvements and learnings on an ongoing basis with the aim of improving the systems, tools, processes and overall team knowledge and experience on a peer to peer basis which involved coaching less experienced Team Members and working on improved solutions.
Prepared estimates using specialist estimating software to include risk, fees, overheads, running costs and such like and a forecast of how these would be spent, the final financial position of the project was forecast to be and a detailed cashflow or activity schedule explaining how much would be spent and when it would be spent during the project schedule.
Presented cost calculations to internal senior management and the client project team, explaining how these calculations were done and what the impact would be for potential future events.
Reviewed and participated with the design services team and general contractor, JV Partners or subcontractors, in the development of the cost estimates, including detailed reviews of market pricing to include Target Maximum Budgets, pricing proposals, scope of works assumptions, detailed subcontractor pricing, schedule assessments and risks.
Quality Control and Quality Assurance, ensured estimates and proposals prepared by the team are in compliance with quality standards and any relevant external quality assurance audits.
Communicated or met with general contractor, subcontractors and owner project manager to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update.
Prepared written comments to the general contractor’s or subcontractor’s submissions, including the executive summary.
Coordinated all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers, subcontractors including quantities and information from the Design Teams.
Benchmarked internal and Contractor or third party cost estimates against prevailing market conditions and developed and maintained current and historical databases of market pricing and rates.

Responsibilities

Lead the specialist Estimating team on specific client commissions, making sure that the team delivers on all accountabilities.
Interface with the client, stakeholders, and other consultants, at all project stages.
Ensure strong relationships and alignment on all work scopes and requirements that must be reflected in the project estimates and forecast costs.
Prepare and assess project level, program level and company level cost risk assessments and advise on their impact to clients.
Identify opportunities to improve cost management procedures, templates and products both for company and their clients.
Ensure that key information and learning generated from each project is inputted into internal databases and shared, driving continuous improvement and best practice and ensuring that company has clear and current market information at all times to provide the most accurate cost estimates and market analysis.
Lead proposals for new work from existing and potential clients and manage variations to contracts and scopes of work for existing projects.
Attend relevant networking events and other promotional opportunities to expand market visibility and brand awareness and further strengthen existing relationships.
Staff management – Input into the formal management of staff and recruitment interviews. Including performance reviews, weekly meetings, resource and workload planning.
Coach and Develop new and existing team members to ensure they can achieve their maximum potential.
Financial management – Utilize Estimating and Industry tools and Dashboards to monitor the ongoing project performance and ensure monthly fee and resource forecasts are accurate and up to date for each commission and report monthly status to Directors.
Review and participate with the design services team and general contractor, JV Partners or subcontractors, in the development of the cost estimates, including detailed reviews of market pricing. This is to include Target Maximum Budgets, pricing proposals, scope of works assumptions, detailed subcontractor pricing, schedule assessments and risks.
Quality Control and Quality Assurance, ensuring estimates and proposals prepared by the team are in compliance with quality standards and any relevant external quality assurance audits.
Communicate or meet with general contractor, subcontractors and owner project manager to gather status information to prepare a cost estimate update.
Prepare written comments to the general contractor’s or subcontractor’s submissions, including the executive summary.
Coordinate all sources of cost information for cost discussions and suppliers, subcontractors including quantities and information from the Design Teams.
Benchmark internal and Contractor or third party cost estimates against prevailing market conditions and develop and maintain current and historical databases of market pricing and rates.