Senior Cost Manager (m/f/d)
Project information
- The company is expanding its current facilities around the globe and requires professionals to support the growth
- The client is seeking a Cost Manager with relevant experience to support the Global Engineering Capital Projects for global facilities and infrastructure
- This position will be directly responsible for cost management and overseeing the costs and cost reporting of projects through various project stages
Responsibilities
- Provide support in the development of Project Cost Estimates and transition from Estimate to Control Budget
- Dentify and establish all project interfaces (including systems) and shall identify the protocols, responsibilities, and points of contact for administering and controlling these interfaces
- Provide accurate and timely Cost Reports to Project Leadership and other stakeholders for inputs to the corporate reporting deadlines
- Ensure that the Engineering Partner and other Contractors (as applicable) have proper methodologies and tools in line with the applicable project control requirement (i.e. Application for Payment process, material trending, productivity analysis, change log. etc)
- Establish at project level processes that supports the Cost Management requirements
- Maintain the cost reporting (Budget, Commitments, Value of Work Done assessment, Accruals, Foreign Exchange, Estimate to Complete, Estimate at Completion, Phasing) for the entire project based on internal and 3rd Party supplier inputs, validated by an independent evaluation, verification and integrating of same into overall reporting
- Support Project Leadership in managing project resources and forecasting overruns or potential savings
- Provide Project Leadership with accurate, timely and robust estimates and reports of EAC
- Support the Project Change, Risk & Opportunity Management on the cost impact calculation and establish control of the contingency draw down and run down according to guidelines
- Support project close out activities including support of asset activation and commercial close out and benchmarking and provide management, oversight and support to other cost engineers as required
Profile
- Bachelor or Master’s degree in Engineering, Science, Quantity Surveying or equivalent experience
- Excellent English language ability , with Business German being advantageous (B2 level minimum)
- Solid experience as a Cost Manager for large (>250 Mio CHF) pharmaceutical projects in EPCm organisations and preferably having working experience as Client representative in Pharma Companies
- Ability to interpret cost data in a consistent and efficient manner and articulate relevant information to senior management
- Excellent written and oral communications and interpersonal and influencing skills
- Microsoft office proficient
- Proficiency in SAP, SAP Ariba and Oracle Primavera Unifier knowledge is desirable
- Experience working in a global environment
- Experience in pharmaceutical projects using Engineering, Procurement, Construction and Commissioning type contracts
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to conduct analysis of complex/large data sets, draw conclusions accordingly, and prepare and support decisions
- Able to deal with Ambiguity - can conform to shifting priorities, and demands
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a fast paced environment
Benefits
- Interesting challenges within a renowned growing biotec company
- Exciting perspectives with state-of-the-art environment
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