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Job Summary

This position reports to the APAC Senior Director of Commercial Management for Global Design & Construction. The role focuses on overseeing commercial management for major expansion construction projects across the APAC region, collaborating with cross-functional internal teams. Key responsibilities include driving capex efficiency to meet cost targets, ensuring compliance with internal financial controls and reporting processes, and managing contract risks. The role requires strategic leadership and effective communication to align project objectives and foster collaboration among stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Construction Projects

• Provides strategic oversight for the planning and monitoring of construction projects from start to completion

• Monitors the financial close-out on all projects including settlement of all vendors

• Reports status, successes, challenges and key activities to senior management

• Develops, manages and is accountable for achievement of key commercial metrics

• Drives continuous improvement initiatives and develops best practices

• Ensures correct level of professional cost management resources are identified, engaged and managed on all regional construction projects

• Provides cost management advice and support

• Oversees and provides guidance on commercial change management and change evaluation efforts on all projects

Budget & Reporting

• Oversees the preparation of budgets (including detailed cost modeling and benchmarking analysis) and presents to senior management

• Monitors adherence against budget throughout the project lifespan, including cost checks and reviews, value engineering and cost saving initiatives and evaluation of alternates

• Review analytics for project portfolio cash flow and earned value analysis

• Reviews project cost reports and carries out regular reviews of these with senior management

• Acts as a stage gate approver of budgets prior to executive approval

• Oversees the adherence against company expenditure limits

Procurement

• Provides guidance and assists with the orderly development of requests for proposal leading into procurement for consultant services agreements, owner furnished equipment and general contractor services agreements

• Guides the overall contracting strategy and signing off construction contracts

Contracts

• Guides contract policy and ensuring audit compliance

• Advises and intervenes appropriately to resolve major contractual claims and disputes as they arise

Risk Management

• Sets out risk management policy and auditing compliance

• Pro-actively leads all commercial risk management efforts including commercial audits, contingency analyses, risk identification and analyses and management training

Collaboration

• Drives global coordination when developing strategies with corporate development, legal, company management, while also managing internal key stakeholders

People Management

• Directly manages a team of Commercial Managers and works closely with other internal project teams

• Trains and develops in-house teams on commercial controls and best practices

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience ideally in data center or mission critical system design and construction and costing

• Bachelor’s degree in quantity surveying, construction, business, financial or related field 

• Proven data center and/or strong MEP experience 

• Proven people management skills

• Preferably RICS accreditation 

• Must be detail orientated, with accurate input and proof-reading skills 

• Must be able to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. 

• Must have strong written and verbal communication skills 

• Must have strong sense of accountability, ownership and urgency 

• Must have strong computer skills, particularly with Excel, Power BI, Cost Management Tools 

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