Essential Job Duties

• Act as the project controls lead for large-scale, complex, or high-risk capital projects, serving as the primary point of contact for project-level cost management delivery.
• Establish and lead cost management programs, tools, technologies, processes, and procedures to support large capital projects and portfolios.
• Coordinate and integrate contractor, consultant, engineering, and third-party cost inputs into a comprehensive and integrated project cost plan.
• Lead cost management workstreams across multiple project phases, ensuring consistency with project controls standards and client requirements.
• Interface directly with client stakeholders, project managers, construction managers, and project teams to provide strategic cost guidance and recommendations.
• Identify, analyze, and communicate project cost risks, opportunities, and mitigation strategies to senior project leadership and clients.
• Lead detailed cost trend, variance, and performance analysis, providing actionable insights to support project decision-making.
• Drive project accrual, budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow processes including monthly, bi-weekly, and weekly reporting requirements.
• Support and facilitate project risk management processes, including quantitative risk assessments and cost contingency analysis where required.
• Develop, implement, and lead earned value management practices on complex capital programs.
• Support development and continuous improvement of project controls plans, project execution plans, and governance frameworks.
• Coordinate inputs from project controls analysts, schedulers, and other project team members to ensure timely and accurate reporting deliverables.
• Review and approve invoices from subcontractors, vendors, consultants, and third-party service providers.
• Support procurement activities including development of RFPs, RFQs, bid evaluations, contractor selection, and commercial negotiations.
• Lead the development, validation, and maintenance of project estimates throughout the project lifecycle.
• Drive value engineering initiatives and cost optimization efforts to maximize project outcomes while maintaining project objectives.
• Support the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of cost management procedures, standards, and best practices for both Cushman & Wakefield and clients.
• Provide guidance, mentoring, and technical leadership to junior project controls professionals and support delivery oversight in partnership with Project Controls Managers and senior leadership.
• Ensure all cost reporting, forecasting, and project controls deliverables are completed accurately, consistently, and in accordance with established standards.

Education / Experience / Training

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or related field.
• Eight (8) or more years of related experience working as a cost management expert on capital projects, including design, construction, and testing/commissioning phases.
• Demonstrated experience leading cost management or project controls workstreams on large, complex, or high-risk projects.
• Direct experience working within complex, matrixed project environments and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Expertise using cost management, project controls, and reporting software, including advanced Excel capabilities.
• Experience within one or more of the following industries required: construction, life sciences, data centers, industrial, manufacturing, or other related technical sectors.
• Demonstrated experience interacting directly with clients and senior project stakeholders.
• Proven ability to identify, communicate, and mitigate project cost and schedule risks.
• Must possess exemplary written and verbal communication skills.

Competencies