Regional Cost Manager - Americas - Execution Oversight Team

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Microsoft's CO+I team is seeking a Datacenter Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC)Cost - Regional Cost Manager - Americas - Execution Oversight Team.

As part of the regional Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) Execution Oversight Team (EOT), the key responsibilities are to work cross functionally with other EOT members to provide oversight on the consistent implementation of the project service level agreement (SLA) and functional governance, perform project health analysis against the approved SLAs/scope/execution plan/cost/schedule, assist with the project setup, evaluate the site resource effectiveness, conduct spot audits, assist with onboarding and training of the site-based team. The team will be dedicated to this scope and will not be assigned to specific projects or other functional/regional activities. The project reviews and assessment will be as per the EOT roadmap and/or managed by exception should a critical priority be raised within the region. The team will be based in a hub location and will travel together to the site as per the roadmap and business critical priorities.

This role is located in one of these hub locations:  Atlanta, GA; Boydton, VA, Phoenix, AZ​ or San Antonio, TX

Travel requirements are 50-75%. This role is a regional role and will require significant levels of travel to datacenter campuses in the region. 

Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must ​relocate or reside within 50 miles of the hub office location. 

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Responsibilities

• Reports to the EPC Regional Cost Management Lead with reporting structure to an EOT Team Lead   
• This position requires a senior level of understanding of cost management, commercial issues, Datacenter Construction, Project Management, Telecommunications, and Mission Critical Operations.   
• Create and/or maintain best practices to identify and incorporate quality and cost-effective solutions.   
• Development of corrective action reports to best understand and communicate project recovery.   
• Development of cost management audit 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 also include : 

• 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 equipment vendors and 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 the sub contract Letters 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 r