Director, Cost Management
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RubixAI Data Center
Remote (East Coast US or UK Preferred)Full-TimeDirector
SalaryRubix offers competitive compensation including base pay, performance incentives, and benefits.
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Job Details
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Required Skills
- BudgetingRisk Management
Requirements
- 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 (preferred).
- Professional qualification such as MRICS, chartered quantity surveyor status, or equivalent regional credentials (preferred).
- Experience using earned value management, advanced project controls, or portfolio-level cost benchmarking (preferred).
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, and commercial trade-offs.
- Produce clear cost reports, cash flow forecasts, expenditure profiles, variance analysis, and executive-level updates.
- Create repeatable cost management processes, templates, reporting cadence, and governance standards.
- Manage external quantity surveyors, cost consultants, contractors, and commercial advisors.
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