COMPLETE Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyor, Cost Management - Design & Construction - London

Job Description

So that Amazon can deliver more for customers and colleagues, this role contributes to the implementation and continuous improvement of cost management within Design & Construction by ensuring control, accuracy, visibility and value is driven into all programmes & project activity. Delivering expertise on capital control, budget preparation and cost value engineering.

Key job responsibilities
- Deliver construction and engineering cost aspects of a pan-EU and MENA specialist logistics building program
- Implement and improve means of tracking, interrogating and forecasting of capital spend accurately and to proactively guide the capital delivery programmes
- Provide centralised cost management support service to project teams
- Apply cost governance & change control methods across all areas of capital delivery to minimise expenditure of unnecessary cost.
- Support project teams on implementing procurement strategies and guidelines
- Contribute to project cost reviews of risks and opportunities to minimise out-turn cost through Value engineering and cost avoidance
- Provision of detailed and timely management information to the business
- Produce trend analysis and cost benchmarking (historic, competitor, market place, internal) to demonstrate risks, opportunities and make recommendations for future
- Deliver methods of construction cost forecasting to improve capital planning
- Own all Reporting, Validation & Tracking measures toward D&C cost out targets.

Would you like an opportunity to travel and work in multiple countries and cultures? The role will be based anywhere in Europe with up to 30% of time on job travel, either domestically or to other EMEA countries.

A day in the life
A day in the life of this role will be meeting with teams to develop and finalise the budget for new projects and then support through the approvals process with benchmarking and negotiation, develop the cost/benefit analysis and then create the road map for implementing the cost management of the live project. You will also work closely with our internal design team and construction managers to deliver best practices and lessons learned into future generations of projects. Process improvement is key, as we scale across countries, currencies, construction and engineering elements. You will dedicate time each day to finding ways to scale the solutions the team designs to work across all regions of Planet Earth.

About the team
Our team is based all over Europe and has a culture of earning trust by delivering for our Customers. We are in the very center of Amazon, working with Customers all over the continent (and beyond!). Our vision is to take on the challenge of delivering high quality buildings and capacity, with less. We drive simplification and optimization understanding our costs and steadily questioning them to deliver both cost and time effectiveness. We encourage and inspire resourcefulness and invention, investing smartly to better serve our customers.” We work hard, but we have fun while we make history.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

London, GBR

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree
- Significant experience in project management, real estate development, architecture/design experience

Preferred Qualifications:

- Master's degree in engineering, Project or cost management.
- MBA
- German, French, Polish or Arabic language skills are considered preferred skills.

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