Associate Director - Cost Management MEP
The opportunity
As an Associate Director Cost Manager at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.
- Act as a key account lead within the Data Centre and LIfe Science sector, building trusted client relationships based on partnership and delivery excellence
- Lead and oversee strategic client projects, ensuring delivery against programme objectives, commercial targets and contract performance measures
- Chair and lead meetings with senior client stakeholders, contractors and project partners
- Support business growth by developing new client relationships and securing repeat work
- Lead pre- and post-contract cost management across complex construction programmes
- Manage the tender and procurement process, from preparation of tender documentation through tender analysis and recommendation
- Produce and review estimates, cost plans and commercial strategies for major developments
- Monitor project spend through valuations, cost reporting and change management, clearly communicating risks and opportunities
- Support the preparation and negotiation of final accounts, ensuring best value for clients
- Lead the resolution of construction disputes, variations and loss/expense claims with transparency and commercial clarity
- Negotiate contract terms and commercial agreements with contractors and external partners
- Lead and mentor cost management professionals, driving performance, development and technical excellence
- Foster a collaborative, high-performance culture focused on quality, innovation and client value
- Support team growth through coaching, knowledge sharing and structured development
We would love to hear from you if you:
- Are an experienced cost manager on large scale construction projects with increasing levels of leadership
- Are chartered or are on the path to complete it. We can help
- Are savvy in understanding the business model and pursuing market opportunities
- Have a degree or comparable experience in a project management or construction discipline
- Have experience in pre- and post-contract cost management on varied projects
- Have experience on Data centre, Life Science projects
- Are an excellent communicator verbally and in writing
- Thrive on building strong relationships with your team and clients through a shared purpose and sense of openness and fun
All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required
At Linesight, we believe that our success is tied to the success of our employees, and we are committed to creating a workplace that is fair, equitable, and inclusive for everyone. We understand that creating an environment where all employees have an equal opportunity to thrive requires a concerted effort across every stage of their time with us, from hiring and onboarding to promotion, career growth, and development.
As part of this commitment, we have implemented a range of policies and initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). This starts with our attraction pipeline and accessible job descriptions, designed to attract a broad range of candidates, and continuing throughout the employee life cycle with DE&I checks built in at every stage. Fairness, consistency, and transparency are the core principles for all our hiring, salary increase, and promotion decisions with built-in gender pay gap checks. Employee and family-friendly policies also enhance inclusion and equity in our teams.
About Cost Management
Our teams of cost managers deliver cost predictability, a high level of assurance and value for money on prestigious, cutting-edge projects around the globe for world-leading clients. Be a part of our collaborative, close-knit teams, who share comprehensive knowledge of international, regional and local construction costs and benchmarks. We champion both mentoring and reverse mentoring across all levels and roles, so you can benefit from the deep expertise and development supports within our organisation, regardless of your experience or seniority.
Life at Linesight
