Senior Cost Manager Regional Portfolio
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Job Summary
Role Summary
The Senior Cost Manager Regional is responsible for overseeing regional cost management activities providing strategic commercial leadership and supporting multiple project teams across different sites. This role serves as the escalation point for subregional cost teams and ensures consistency quality and alignment of cost processes across the region.
You will lead pre and postcontract oversight regional reporting commercial strategies risk management and team capability development. You will also work closely with site teams project managers and global program stakeholders to deliver bestinclass cost governance and value for money.
Regional Leadership & Governance
- Act as the primary escalation point for subregional cost teams and provide leadership across all regional cost management functions.
- Ensure regional alignment with governance requirements standards and cost management processes.
- Oversee quarterly compliance audits documentation reviews and closure of audit action items.
- Ensure timely and accurate delivery of all regional cost governance requirements.
PreContract & Commercial Strategy
- Support the development of commercial and contract strategies for new projects and new sites in the regional portfolio.
- Support the preparation of highlevel ROM (Rough Order of Magnitude) budgets with clear assumptions risks and commercial considerations.
- Lead regional and programlevel RFPs including longterm strategic and global procurement packages.
- Review and validate sitelevel cost recommendations prior to award.
Cost Management & Risk Control
- Manage project cost risk across the entire project lifecycle at a regional level.
- Lead the regional change order management process ensuring quality justification and compliance.
- Support cost functions normally handled by Project Cost Managers during their absence.
- Develop and maintain regional cost benchmarks cost databases and template budgets using past project data and market insights.
Additional responsibilities:
- Perform QA/QC reviews on site data cost inputs and forecasts flagging any data risks or gaps.
- Combine cost information from multiple sites for regional program reporting.
- Conduct gap analyses on best practices and recommend improvements for cost control processes.
Operational Support & Coordination
- Support sitelevel RFPs and commercial negotiations to ensure best value and alignment with regional strategy.
- Participate in contractor onboarding activities and ensure alignment with regional expectations.
- Support preparation of project funding requests and ensure funding is secured as planned.
- Assist sites in developing quarterly portfolio plans and implementation strategies for new initiatives.
Team Development & Capability Building
- Train onboard and mentor cost team members across the region to uplift capability and ensure process alignment.
- Provide process training cadence to site teams and ensure consistent understanding of tools and procedures.
- Support resource utilisation tracking and planning across the regional cost team.
Qualifications :
- Bachelors degree in Quantity Surveying Cost Management Engineering Construction or related field.
- 1015 years of cost management or commercial management experience ideally with regional or multisite exposure.
- Strong experience in precontract procurement commercial strategy and cost governance.
- Experience supporting technical missioncritical or industrial project environments is an advantage.
- Strong leadership communication and stakeholdermanagement skills.
- Ability to lead crossregional coordination and manage complex reporting requirements.
Additional Information :
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Key Skills
- Project / Program Management
- Project Portfolio Management
- Portfolio Management
- Credit Analysis
- Banking
- Pricing
- Analysis Skills
- Project Management
- Financial Analysis
- Budgeting
- Property Management
- Contracts
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