Remote Cost Management Director – Data Center Projects

Rubix Data Centers; Greater London; Remote; GBP 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Rubix Data Centers is seeking a Director of Cost Management to drive cost clarity and commercial discipline across its data center portfolio. You will lead budgeting, forecasting, and reporting for regional developments, partnering with delivery, design, finance, procurement, and leadership to optimize spend and value.

The role requires 10+ years in cost management or related fields, global project experience, and the ability to travel.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of cost management, quantity surveying, commercial management, or project controls experience.
• Experience supporting large-scale construction, data center, mission-critical, industrial, or infrastructure projects globally
• Strong understanding of pre-contract and post-contract cost management, tendering, change control, and final accounts.
• Experience developing budgets, cost plans, forecasts, cash flows, and executive reporting.
• Knowledge of the needs and expectations of the business finance team and their objectives for accurate reporting on cash flow, profitability, and stakeholder reporting.
• Ability to travel globally as needed.

Responsibilities

• Own cost planning, estimating, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting for data center developments.
• Establish robust cost controls across the project lifecycle, from early feasibility through final account.
• Develop regional cost benchmarks and lessons learned to improve future investment and delivery decisions.
• Partner with delivery, design, construction, finance, procurement, and leadership teams on cost strategy.
• Recommend procurement routes, tender strategy, change control, contract risk, value engineering, speed to market, and commercial trade-offs.
• Produce clear cost reports, cash flow forecasts, expenditure profiles, variance analysis, and executive-level updates.
• Develop cost metrics across multiple projects to aid forward cost budgeting and cost control strategy.
• Identify and incorporate mechanisms to improve project capex expenditure and improve cost efficiency to target improvements in cost/MW deployment, in consideration to Operational impacts.
• Create repeatable cost management processes, templates, reporting cadence, and governance standards.
• Manage external quantity surveyors, cost consultants, contractors, and commercial advisors.
• Support team growth by identifying capability needs and developing best practices.

Skills

Cost management

Quantity surveying

Contract management

Forecasting

Budgeting

Cash flow management

Education

MRICS

Job description

Rubix Data Centers is seeking a Director of Cost Management to drive cost clarity and commercial discipline across its data center portfolio. You will lead budgeting, forecasting, and reporting for regional developments, partnering with delivery, design, finance, procurement, and leadership to optimize spend and value.

The role requires 10+ years in cost management or related fields, global project experience, and the ability to travel.