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Commercial Management Office (CMO) Lead

Turner & Townsend Group
Boston, MA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/14/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/3/2025

From the inception of a project through to completion and beyond, Turner & Townsend help to deliver the outcomes that matter through transformational programs covering the full spectrum of consultancy, project delivery and post-project operations.

Learn more about the general tasks related to this opportunity below, as well as required skills.

With offices located globally, you're never far away from our services. Working from 133 offices in 49 countries, we make the difference to projects across the real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors worldwide.

Our team is dynamic, innovative, and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity, and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Job Description

Turner & Townsend are engaged to support our client with many complex projects, and we are seeking the ideal Commercial Management Office (CMO) Lead for our prestigious Life sciences client’s construction projects.

Our client has a large life sciences portfolio and we require a lead to oversee the portfolio and provide individual project oversight. The successful candidate will have experience in commercial management at a portfolio level, along with project level cost management and project controls experience. They will need to lead change management initiatives as part of improving the portfolio’s performance and have a good understanding of best practice.

The ideal candidate will be a leader, self-starter, and able to take the initiative and drive activities with limited supervision. A minimum of 10 years post-graduate experience in the construction industry is required. With a keen eye for detail and experience of identifying continuous improvement opportunities, the candidate should have experience working on maintenance portfolios.

Job Objectives :

  • Define a commercial delivery strategy and oversee its implementation.
  • Provide leadership across the portfolio and oversight to a team of delivery Cost Managers and Project Cost Controllers.
  • Peer review core cost management deliverables prior to issuance to the client.
  • Capture cost and commercial data from across the portfolio for use in benchmarking and cost validation exercises.
  • Coordinate and lead communications with the client and project stakeholders.
  • Create, manage, and oversee budget development.
  • Support process improvement initiatives to improve overall performance of the portfolio.
  • Engage stakeholders to review processes and project delivery methodologies to obtain input and recommendations for continuous improvements.
  • Track and review change orders that exceed a determined threshold value.
  • Produce monthly reports that summarize the performance of the portfolio for management.
  • Oversee earned value / progress exercises.
  • Assure that commercial outcomes are going to be met across the portfolio.
  • Implement best practices and reporting trends both internally and externally.

Qualifications

  • Candidate should be skilled in portfolio, program and cost management and have a minimum of 10 years of experience in the construction industry.
  • Experience working in a project controls leadership position for a portfolio of construction projects is essential.
  • Experience in building and leading high performing teams is essential.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills are required.
  • Program level life sciences, manufacturing and R&D experience is preferred.
  • Familiarity with portfolio and program management industry best practice.
  • Working closely with various disciplines in project delivery and project controls teams to ensure projects are delivered safely and predictably on time and within budget, and timely and accurate cost and schedule data is obtained to inform data-driven decisions to improve portfolio and program performance.
  • Experience of delivering a combined capex and Opex construction portfolio is preferred.
  • Education :

  • College and / or post-graduate degree in construction management, quantity surveying, engineering or field related to construction.
  • Relevant accreditation or certifications (example : AACE, RICS, PRINCE2, MSP) is preferred.
  • OSHA certification is desirable but not essential.
  • Additional Information

  • On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs
  • 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 and https : / / www.heery.com /

    All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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