Associate Director

Associate Director - Cost Management

As an **Associate Director - Cost Management** at Linesight, you will lead highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will build on your vast industry experience which 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. You will be mentored and supported by industry leaders and given the tools to grow. You will also be involved in and contribute to our business strategy as we continue to evolve. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

**In this role you will**:

- Coordinate and manage a team of Senior Cost Managers to ensure the quality and timely commercial delivery of multiple, simultaneous data centre projects in Mainland Europe
- Be a client facing representative commercially guiding the process of project delivery from pre-contract estimates through to delivery of the final built assets
- Ensure best commercial practice and quality are implemented at each stage
- Provide critical analysis on cost reporting and cashflow
- Support the Key Account Manager with region specific metrics for internal and external reporting
- Support the UK management team in the development of fee structures
- Work alongside a UK management team in the growth of an existing key data centre client
- Be responsible for the growth and development of current and new clients
- Assist with staff recruitment to deliver existing commissions and identify resource requirements to increase account delivery
- Effectively drive results, provide feedback and direction and build relationships with leaders and team members
- Manage the tender and bid process from initial documentation through to analysis and reporting
- Assist in the preparation and agreement of final accounts, including the handling of any claims to ensure the client gets best value from works undertaken
- Oversee project spend by reviewing and signing off valuations and variations for your team
- Support nimble project management and clear decisions through excellent cost documentation and timely communication
- Support the settlement of construction disputes/loss and expense claims with transparency
- Foster top performance and growth for your employees via excellent mentorship and leadership

**We would love to hear from you if you**:

- Have grown your experience over 7 years in Cost Management with increasing levels of leadership
- Have experience in pre
- and post-contract cost management within the Data Centre sector
- Have a degree or comparable experience in a cost management or quantity surveying related discipline
- 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

**About us**

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team

**Diversity, inclusion and accessibility