Director, Cost Management

About the Company

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.
• ● 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.
• ● Direct experience with hyperscale, colocation, or AI infrastructure data center projects.
• ● Professional qualification such as MRICS, chartered quantity surveyor status, or equivalent regional credentials.
• ● Experience using earned value management, advanced project controls, or portfolio-level cost benchmarking.
• ● Ability to influence senior stakeholders through clear commercial analysis and practical recommendations.
• ● Comfort building a cost management function in a high-growth, entrepreneurial environment.
• ● Comfortable interacting at all stakeholder levels, from project level to executive level.

Benefits

• ● Exposure to high-impact investment decisions in a rapidly growing AI infrastructure platform
• ● Opportunity to work across the full asset lifecycle-from origination through operations
• ● Direct collaboration with senior leadership and cross-functional teams
• ● A fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with strong growth potential