Cost Manager- Data Center Construction Projects

Turner-; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Cost Manager to support large Data Center construction projects in the Nordics. You will work with the client’s Project Manager and supply chain to provide cost management consulting that drives delivery and enables successful outcomes.

As an experienced professional, you will establish cost baselines, monitor performance against them, and manage risk, opportunities and change in a controlled manner.

Qualifications

• Experience in the construction of Data Centres and related complex asset types.
• Proven experience in cost management across all project phases.
• Strong measurement and cost planning expertise.
• Collaborative approach with clients and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as the client-facing cost management lead, producing formal and ad hoc reports on time, cost and quality targets.
• Control costs through conceptual estimating, funding gates, contingency and procurement principles.
• Create and maintain cost reports and executive dashboards.
• Lead evaluation of time, cost and quality targets with governance controls.
• Coordinate planning sessions with clients and vendors to establish baselines and critical paths.
• Guide the general contractor to align progress with the schedule and cash flow.
• Incorporate procurement lead times and prioritize orders to meet install dates.
• Communicate changes and approvals through the project change management process.

Skills

Cost management

Reporting

Stakeholder management

Schedule & planning

Excel

Communication

Tools

Excel

Databases

Job description

Cost Manager- Data Center Construction Projects

• Full-time

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
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Turner & Townsend currently are seeking a Cost Managers to support large Data Center construction projects in the Nordics, working collaboratively with the clients Project Manager and supply chain to provide cost management consulting to drive delivery and enable successful project outcomes.

As an experienced Cost Management Professional you will establish the required processes, templates and tools, and agree the baseline for cost and schedule, whilst monitoring performance against it and incorporating the impacts of risk, opportunities and change in a controlled manner. In order to do this you will:-

• Act as the key point of contact to the client overcoming delivery and commercial issues whilst preparing formal and ad hoc reports focusing on time, cost and quality targets.
• Control costs with your knowledge of conceptual estimating, funding stage gates, basic contingency principals, procurement principals.
• Create and or work within a cost report, summarizing financials in a executive level dashboard.
• Lead the evaluation of the projects time, cost, and quality targets, applying governance controls as necessary to enable the successful delivery of the project.
• Coordinate and lead planning sessions and workshops with clients and vendors to compile the master project/programme schedule, agreeing baselines and a critical path.
• Guide and influence the general contractor, ensuring they are progressing in line with the schedule and within agreed cash flow parameters.
• Understand procurement principals, collate lead times from vendors and client into the master schedule communicate the prioritisation of ordering materials and equipment to meet scheduled install dates.
• Work closely with the project team to stay informed on status of project changes, incorporating and communicating these to the project team to allow for approvals in the change management process.

• Experience in the construction of Data Centres ,Life Science, Pharma, Hi Tech, Manufacturing,Industrialor other related complex asset types.
• Proven experience in cost managementin all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Strong measurement and cost planning expertise
• Strong experience with spreadsheets and databases.
• Collaborative approach, able to develop strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, internally and externally.
• Good organization skills with the ability to multi-task.
• Demonstrated strong listening and communication skills.
• FluentEnglish language skills, both written and verbal.

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