Associate Director - Cost Management

Overview

As an Associate Director Cost Manager at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.

The Opportunity

• Act as a key account lead within the Data Centre sector, building trusted client relationships based on partnership and delivery excellence
• Lead and oversee strategic client projects, ensuring delivery against programme objectives, commercial targets and contract performance measures
• Chair and lead meetings with senior client stakeholders, contractors and project partners
• Support business growth by developing new client relationships and securing repeat work
• Lead pre‑and post‑contract cost management across complex construction programmes
• Manage the tender and procurement process, from preparation of tender documentation through tender analysis and recommendation
• Produce and review estimates, cost plans and commercial strategies for major developments
• Monitor project spend through valuations, cost reporting and change management, clearly communicating risks and opportunities
• Support the preparation and negotiation of final accounts, ensuring best value for clients
• Lead the resolution of construction disputes, variations and loss/expense claims with transparency and commercial clarity
• Negotiate contract terms and commercial agreements with contractors and external partners
• Lead and mentor cost management professionals, driving performance, development and technical excellence
• Foster a collaborative, high‑performance culture focused on quality, innovation and client value
• Support team growth through coaching, knowledge sharing and structured development

We would love to hear from you if you are:

• An experienced cost manager on large scale construction projects with increasing levels of leadership
• Chartered or on the path to complete certification – we can help
• Savvy in understanding the business model and pursuing market opportunities
• A degree or comparable experience in a project management or construction discipline
• Experience in pre‑and post‑contract cost management on varied projects
• Experience on Data centre and Life Science projects
• An excellent communicator verbally and in writing
• Thrives on building strong relationships with your team and clients through a shared purpose and sense of openness and fun

About Us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!