Senior Cost Manager - Procurement (Global Capability Center)
The opportunity
As a Senior Cost Manager - Procurement 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.
In this role you will:
- Actively partner with clients, responding to their requests accurately and on time and should be able to take the responsibility of multiple packages in the projects.
- Create estimates and cost plans for CSA/MEP Packages for key client developments.
- Support team with estimation and reviewing the overall CSA/MEP scope of work.
- Proficient in Client interactions and focussing on Client relationship building; attend the project kick-off calls.
- Express high proficiency in CSA/MEP packages and moderate knowledge of CSA/MEP works.
- Express basic knowledge of Procurement of global projects.
- Participate in drafting proposals to Clients.
- Contribute to developing good client relationships that supports the business.
- Lead your team to deliver impeccable quality and client value.
- Set up and administer procurement and RFP folders, ensuring accurate document management and version control.
- Manage and administer design team and contractor RFIs, including tracking, coordination, and timely follow-up.
- Review tender submissions and perform detailed side-by-side analyses of costs and scope against the project budget and comparable existing campus projects.
- Prepare concise summary reports of the tender analysis, highlighting key findings, commercial variances, risks, and recommendations for presentation to the project lead.
We would love to hear from you if you:
- Have a minimum 12 years of experience in cost management especially global pre cons works, ideally from a consultancy background, on large scale construction projects ideally in data center projects and life sciences project.
- Have the ability to have innovation and solution-oriented approaches.
- A minimum of 4 years of past work experience required on Cost X (or Planswift / Cubicost / Candy / ZW CAD).
- Have experience and confidence to lead a team, build a team and develop trusted client relationships.
- 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 cost management or construction discipline.
- Are an excellent communicator verbally and in writing.
- Love a dynamic environment with the opportunity to manage your own priorities and deadlines.
- 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.
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