Regional Cost Manager

4 weeks ago


Phoenix, United States Microsoft Full time

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) is the team behind the cloud. CO+I is responsible for delivering over 200 Microsoft web portals, Live and Online Services around the world including infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide.

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.**

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

**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 c**ommercial 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.
- 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 region.
- Assist in the procurement of Cost Management firm.
- Manage the resources allocated to the projects to ensure that they are appropriate in number and quality.
- Regular Monthly Business Updates (MBUs) with the cost management firms.
- Cost Reporting: Work with the Cost management firm, GC and project controls to ensure that the full suite of cost reports are available for review by Redmond on a monthly basis.
- Provide the PER (funding) team all commercial support necessary to ascertain the 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 multiple option cost 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


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