Principal Construction Cost Manager

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As the Principal Construction Cost Manager, you will be involved with our significant EMEA portfolio, supporting the EMEA Director of Construction Cost Management with the development and implementation of industry leading cost management and estimating across the GDC (Global Data Center) EMEA program.This includes the full end-to-end pre-contract and construction cost management.The role will involve interfacing across multiple projects with internal and external stakeholders; as well as developing global standards.

What you will do

• With a right-first-time mindset, utilising an excellent level of experience and understanding of key cost drivers to make informed decisions on appropriate costs for inclusion across the EMEA portfolio
• Responsible for undertaking and overseeing commercial outputs of the internal and external NTT cost teams
• Managing the assessment, creation and reduction of cost of development benchmarks for NTT's reference design, expansion (new site developments) including regional and sub-regional cost variances and considerations
• Supporting with global standardisation of cost management processes
• Undertaking a project and programme change management process, including pro-active trend analysis to identify opportunities for reduction
• Undertaking timely, accurate and detailed end-to-end cost management including cost reporting, cashflow forecasting and benchmarking at project and programme level, ensuring Director of Construction Cost Management and stakeholders are kept informed
• Interfacing with the GDC EMEA, finance, asset management and controlling teams

What we are looking for

• 8+ years' experience in Quantity Surveying / cost management
• Preferably Degree / Masters in Quantity Surveying / Cost Management
• Preferably data centre experience, but not a pre-requisite
• Pre-contract and post-contract experience
• Business fluent in English, another language such as German is an advantage
• Experience of managing others
• Good communication skills, flexible, proactive approach and good stakeholder management
• High reliability and ability to quickly build trust
• Ability to cope with tight deadlines, prioritise workloads and maintain a consistent, high standard of output
• Flexible to travel for meetings / site visits / collaboration time across multiple locations

We look forward to hearing from you!

About the Global Data Centers division of NTT Ltd.
Global Data Centers is a division of NTT Ltd. Our global platform is one of the largest in the world. NTT is ranked as one of the top three leaders worldwide by IDC in their Colocation and Interconnection Services MarketScape, spanning more than 20 countries and regions including North America, Europe, Africa, India and APAC.

As a neutral operator, we offer access to multiple cloud providers, a large variety of Internet Exchanges and telecommunication network providers including our own IPv6 compliant, tier 1 global IP network. Our clients benefit from tailored infrastructure and experience consistent best practices in design and operations across all of our reliable, scalable and customizable data centers.

Working for Global Data Centers EMEA
We are one of the leading and largest data center provider and for more than 20 years we have been supporting our clients from a wide variety of industries with our talented team of nearly 900 people (m/f/d). Today, we are designing and operating 18 data center locations across 160,000 sqm in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, in the Netherlands and in Great Britain and expanding into further markets. Our people come from a variety of industries and work together to find the best solution for every challenge. Due to the diversity of backgrounds our people (m/f/d) come from, the ability to work in teams and good communication skills are very important to us.

As a performance-oriented company, we value expert knowledge and people who want to shape the future. We are growing internationally and offer our people (m/f/d) the opportunity to work worldwide within the NTT Group if they are suitably qualified and interested.

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