Sub Regional Cost Planning Lead

Lead project cost planning and estimating activities across all phases of data centre development, ensuring alignment with approved scope, schedule, budget, and business objectives. Develop, review, and validate detailed cost estimates at key design milestones (30%, 60%, and 90% design completion), ensuring estimates are accurate, traceable, and supported by robust benchmarking and quantity take-offs. Partner with design, engineering, construction, commercial, procurement, finance, and project controls teams to identify cost risks, opportunities, and value engineering solutions throughout project delivery. Support site selection and business case development by providing constructability assessments, comparative cost analyses, funding recommendations, and investment decision support. Drive cost governance and stage gate approvals, owning all cost estimate deliverables, assumptions, analysis, reporting, and approvals required to progress projects through key decision milestones. Manage external consultants and estimating partners, ensuring high-quality outputs, consistent estimating methodologies, effective quality assurance, and timely delivery of contracted services. Monitor and optimise project cost performance by tracking cost changes, identifying savings opportunities, managing risks, and implementing corrective actions to maintain alignment with approved project budgets and targets. Bachelor's Degree in Quantity surveying, Construction Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent experience. Demonstrable experience in Estimating in Construction Project Management and delivery. Experience working on data center projects or other large scale construction projects / programs. Bachelor's Degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, or related field Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) full membership or equivalent Good communication skills, ability to collaborate with all other areas of the data center program, being able to think strategically, ability to build the trust of our construction partners Must possess a clear understanding of the full Construction Life Cycle Strong analytical, problem-solving skills Develop, maintain, and report out on project scope, schedule, and budget with cost as the main driver in those conversations. Cross-group collaborator and influencer across teams and organizations with proven success in participating in cross-functional teams to deliver on key projects. Should be able to work within a dynamic team of full-time employees and consultants. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: