Microsoft Regional Cost Manager - Americas Execution Oversight Team 

United States, Arizona, Phoenix 

772274203

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction management, Project Controls, Quantity Surveying or related field AND 5+ years of experiencemanaging the estimating or commercials on a major construction portfolio
  • OR equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in the commercial management role in the procurement of general contracts and other construction vendors

• 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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• 12+ years of experience managing the estimating or commercials on a major construction portfolio
• Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) full membership or equivalent
• Commercial knowledge of construction internationally
• Experience collaborating with all other areas of the datacenter program with an ability to think strategically and build the trust of our construction partners needed to agreevery largeconstruction contracts and final accounts

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

• Reports to the EPC Regional Cost Management Lead with reporting structure to an EOT Team Lead
• This position requires a senior level of understanding ofcost management, commercial issues, Datacenter Construction, Project Management, Telecommunications, and Mission Critical Operations.
• Create and/ormaintainbest practices toidentifyand incorporate quality and cost-effective solutions.
• Development of corrective action reports to best understand and communicate project recovery.
• Development ofcost managementaudit reports to best understand and communicate project status.
• Travel required.

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 :

• 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.
• Assistin 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 selection support: Work with our site selection team in the region to provide constructability reports andsite specificcomparative estimates on candidate sites. Also provide all funding and Purchase Order (PO) support necessary for this team to perform in the region.
• Commercial Process control: Review the current commercial processes in the region and develop these into a commercial playbook.On agreement of this playbook the candidate shall be responsible for the consistent implementation of same.
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