Director, Cost Management

Budget & Cost Control

Manage and track comprehensive project budgets and integrated project costs across all data center initiatives, ensuring precise financial forecasting and variance reporting.

Estimation & Modeling

Stand up robust, standardized project estimation frameworks for greenfield and brownfield builds, providing accurate baseline costs from early conceptual design through to final closeout.

Quantitative Risk Analysis

Perform sophisticated quantitative cost risk analyses, including Monte Carlo simulation and contingency modeling, to establish realistic project reserves and buffer against market volatility.

Vendor Billing & Financial Governance

Oversee all vendor and contractor billing cycles, ensuring strict alignment against approved contract values, milestone progress and budget thresholds.

Change Order Management

Establish and lead a rigorous review, tracking and approval process for all project change orders to mitigate scope creep and control cost escalation.

Standards, Processes & Compliance

Define and institutionalize enterprise-wide cost management standards, governance frameworks and best practices to ensure audit readiness and regulatory compliance.

Talent Acquisition & Team Building

Hire, mentor and scale a high-performing cost management team distributed across multiple regions, establishing a unified culture of financial accountability.

Capital Forecasting & Executive Reporting

Partner with Finance and FP&A on capex phasing, cash flow forecasting and earned value reporting, and present cost health, contingency drawdown and capital efficiency metrics to executive leadership and the Board.

Commercial & Procurement Support

Support Procurement and Supply Chain on contracting strategy, pricing and commercial terms for long-lead equipment such as transformers, switchgear, generators and cooling plant.

Benchmarking & Capital Efficiency

Build and maintain unit-cost benchmarks across the portfolio, including cost per MW and cost per kW of critical load, and use them to drive value engineering and challenge estimates.

Systems & Data Integrity

Own the cost management toolset and its integration with ERP and project management platforms, ensuring a single, auditable source of truth for project cost.