Senior Cost Manager – Data Center

🔥 35 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130k - $155k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Turner & Townsend

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10,000+ employees

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

🏠 Real Estate

Construction • Consulting • Real Estate

Turner & Townsend is a global consultancy business that serves clients in the real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors. With a commitment to building trust between clients, suppliers, governments, and society, they focus on delivering better outcomes that positively impact the world. Their specialities include programme strategy and setup, programme management, cost and commercial management, project management, procurement, safety, health and quality, controls and performance, technology and data, and advisory services. With 75 years of experience, Turner & Townsend aims to transform performance for a greener, more inclusive, and productive world.

📋 Description

• Serve as the key day-to-day client interface on large-scale data center and retail capital construction programs • Deliver cost management and procurement services across ground-up developments, critical infrastructure upgrades, and facility refresh initiatives • Estimate and negotiate change orders throughout the construction lifecycle • Prepare and present cost plans, estimates, cost updates, and monthly cost reports • Review design and contractor cost estimates and reconcile changes • Coordinate cost information from NPA, subcontractors, suppliers, and architects/engineers • Manage cost checks, valuations, cost variances, change control, contingency, and commitment tracking • Prepare funding data presentations and coordinate value engineering sessions • Provide commercial input to design optioneering and value engineering • Review contractor and subcontractor pricing and lead client-side negotiations • Manage cost auditing, valuation, cost validation, and final account negotiations • Compile built-cost estimate records for benchmarking • Coach and mentor team members • Track commission margins, fees, resource forecasts, and financial reports using internal software • Maintain business management systems and delivery methodologies • Develop and execute procurement strategies for Retail Refresh, De Novo, and Data Center programs • Prepare and manage RFPs and RFQs, including scopes, pricing schedules, tender documentation, supplier engagement, and bid clarifications • Perform commercial bid evaluations and bid levelling • Support contractor selection, negotiations, award recommendations, contractor frameworks, MSAs, unit-rate schedules, and vendor onboarding • Apply ROM estimating, budget validation, market benchmarking, and commercial assessments to procurement decisions

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Engineering, Cost Engineering, or a related field • Minimum of 5–7 years of experience in cost management, quantity surveying, or project controls within the construction industry • Proven experience on data center, mission-critical, or multi-site commercial capital programs • Expertise in pre- and post-contract cost management, strategic procurement, RFP/RFQ management, bid levelling, and commercial contract negotiations • Experience with MSAs and unit-rate frameworks • Familiarity with financial governance, audit readiness, and SOX compliance standards • Proficiency in cost estimating software, benchmarking databases, and Microsoft Excel • RICS, AACE, or similar professional certification strongly preferred • Excellent communication skills • Ability to operate confidently in a fast-paced, client-facing environment • Ability to work proactively with minimal supervision • On-site presence and requirements may change depending on client needs

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonuses may be available in addition to base salary • Comprehensive benefits package • Healthy, productive, and flexible working environment • Work-life balance support • Inclusive and diverse workplace • Confidential handling of candidate information

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