Microsoft Campus Cost Lead 

Australia, New South Wales, Sydney 

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Campus Costto provide servicesSydney, Australia

This role is a field-based role for theThis role is not eligible for hybrid or remote work.

• Bachelor’s degree in Constructionmanagement,Project Controls, Quantity Surveying or related field AND5+ years of related experience

• 5+ years of experience managing the estimating or commercials on a major construction portfolio

• Proven experience of the commercial management role in the procurement of GC contracts and other construction vendors

Other Requirements

• to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirementsarerequiredfor this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will berequiredto pass the Microsoft Cloudbackground check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

• Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) full membership or equivalent

• Commercial knowledge of construction internationally

Preferred Requirements

• very largeconstruction contracts and final accounts

Responsibilities

Deep understanding of the commercial management of the General Contractor (GC) from liaison with our procurement office on the Request for Proposal (RFP) documents through to the final payments and agreement of the final accounts and paperwork. This will alsoinclude:

• Reports to the Sydney Site Director

• Detailed estimation of the project based on local design documents.

• Agreement of estimates with the GC at during design development and agreement of the contract sum.

• Pay application assessment and approval for the GC, all equipmentvendorsand all project support consultants.

• Estimation of and commercial agreement of all change orders.

• Draft commercial detail and supporting documents for all funding requests.

• Review and agreement of all GC procurement of the subcontract packages including the approval of thesub contractLetters of Authorization (LOAs).

• Commercial review of all disputes that may arise.

Commercial management of all other program vendors including:

• Presenting proposals to head office for purchase order approval.

• Approving invoices for all project vendors.

• Final account agreement & closeout for all vendor accounts.

• Manage the Cost Management firm contracted to provide commercial support in the region.

• in the procurement of Cost Management firm.

• Manage the resourcesallocatedto the projects to ensure that they areappropriate innumber and quality.

• Regular Monthly Business Updates (MBUs) with the cost management firms.

• Cost Reporting: Work with the Cost management firm,GCand project controls to ensure that the full suite of cost reportsareavailable for review by Redmondon a monthly basis

• Provide the PER (funding)teamall commercial support necessary toascertainthe required timing of the funding intervals and all commercial information needed to back up these funding requests to management. This will normally involve the production of multipleoptioncost scenarios.

• Design Team commercial support: From project kick-off through to final design provide commercial support on business cases, value engineering studies and change control as the design evolves though to final decision.

• site specific

• Commercial Process control: Review the current commercial processes in the region and develop these into a commercial playbook.