Snr Cost Manager – Construction
Location: London, Hybrid or Netherlands & Germany Hybrid.
Type: Staff – Full Time
Sector: Construction – Data Centres / Centre
Projects: EMEA
Our client has over 20 years’ experience in designing, building and operating energy-efficient, reliable data centres - hosting significant financial, media, corporate and cloud wholesale providers across the world.
As the Senior Construction Cost Manager, you will be involved with significant portfolio of project across EMEA.You will support the EMEA Director of Construction Cost Management in developing and implementing industry leading cost management and estimating across the GDC (Global Data Centres) EMEA program. This includes the full end-to-end pre-contract and construction cost management. The role will involve interfacing across multiple projects with internal and external stakeholders as well as developing global standards.
Responsibilities
With a right-first-time mindset, utilising an excellent level of experience and understanding of key cost drivers to make informed decisions on appropriate costs for inclusion across the EMEA portfolio.
Responsible for undertaking and overseeing commercial outputs of the internal and external cost teams.
Managing the assessment, creation and reduction of cost of development benchmarks for reference design, expansion (new site developments) including regional and sub-regional cost variances and considerations
Supporting with global standardisation of cost management processes
Undertaking a project and programme change management process, including pro-active trend analysis to identify opportunities for reduction
Undertaking timely, accurate and detailed end-to-end cost management including cost reporting, cashflow forecasting and benchmarking at project and programme level
Interfacing with the GDC EMEA, finance, asset management and controlling teams.Experience /Education
Experience in Quantity Surveying / Cost Management
Preferably Degree / Masters in Quantity Surveying / Cost Management
Preferably Data Centre experience, but not a pre-requisite
Pre-contract and post-contract experience
Business fluent in English, another language such as German is an advantage.
Experience of managing others
Good communication skills, flexible, proactive approach and good stakeholder management
Ability to cope with tight deadlines, prioritise workloads and maintain a consistent, high standard of output
Flexible to travel for meetings / site visits / collaboration time across multiple locations Benefits:
An agile company culture with short decision-making paths and plenty of opportunities to show personal initiative
Company pension
Employee Assistance Programme
Flexible working time models and mobile working (depending on your role)
Allowance for the use of public transport and bike scheme
Allowance for the use of Health and Wellness
Individual training and development opportunities
Numerous other additional benefits such as birthday vouchers, employee advisory program, employee referral scheme
Lunch allowance company events and much more For more Information: please reach out to me on - (url removed)