Cost Intelligence, Data & Benchmarking - Infrastructure

Salary: £65,000 - 105,000 per year

Requirements:

• 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
• 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, such as RICS, is desirable

Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain and evolve infrastructure cost benchmarks across a range of sectors
• Analyse cost performance across assets, programmes and portfolios
• Identify 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
• Stay abreast of developments within our technical area of expertise so we can give best practice advice in line with business objectives
• Support clients in making informed decisions across the full asset lifecycle, from business case and option selection through delivery, assurance and portfolio optimisation
• Work as an embedded resource within client organisations or on ad-hoc work for multiple clients across the Infrastructure sector
• Work remotely within the region on tasks for our clients both nationally and internationally as workload requires

Technologies:

• Embedded
• Support
• ASP.NET
• DevOps

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We are Turner & Townsend, a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. We work with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources to deliver outcomes that improve peoples lives, and we are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., with our partners holding a significant minority interest. We are growing our Cost Intelligence, Data & Benchmarking capability to support major infrastructure programmes across the North East & Yorkshire region, with opportunities across our Newcastle, Teesside, Sheffield and Leeds offices. We offer a flexible, inclusive and supportive working environment, with a focus on work-life balance, diversity and the chance for our people to make a real impact.

last updated 34 week of 2026