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Metro Cost Lead

Microsoft· Construction Project Management
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Atlanta, GA$116.9k - $203.6kfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Partner with stakeholders to provide commercial management for metro data center construction projects in the region; responsible for on-site financial and contractual protection, managing commercial issues, and coordinating with head office and various project vendors.

Responsibilities

  • Work alongside the DCD Project Manager to commercially manage all projects in the region
  • Provide on location commercial management to the projects to ensure that Microsoft are financially and contractually protected
  • Management of all commercial issues on all current, future and past projects and report on these issues through the Project Controls & DCD head office in Redmond on a regular basis
  • Commercial management of the GC from liaison with our procurement office on the RFP documents through to the final payments and agreement of the final accounts and paperwork
  • Agreement of estimates with the GC at during design development and agreement of the GMP
  • Detailed estimation of the project based on local design documents
  • Pay application assessment and approval for the GC, all equipment vendors and all project support consultants
  • Estimation of and commercial agreement of all change orders
  • Draft commercial detail of all funding requests
  • Review and agreement of all GC procurement of the subcontract packages including the approval of the LOAs (Letters of Authorization)
  • Commercial review of all disputes that may arise
  • Commercial management of all other program vendors including AE, Cx, Inspections, PMQS, QRA to include: 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 QS firm contracted to provide commercial support in the region.
  • Assist in the procurement of QS firm
  • Manage the resources allocated to the projects to ensure that they are appropriate in number and quality
  • Regular MBUs with the cost management firms
  • Cost Reporting: Work with the PMQS, 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.
  • 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 from POR though to final design
  • Site selection support: Work with our site selection team in the region to provide constructability reports and site specific comparative estimates on candidate sites. Also provide all funding and PO support necessary for this team to perform in the region
  • Commercial Process control: Review the current commercial processes in the region and develop these into a commercial playbook. On agreement of this playbook the candidate shall be responsible for the consistent implementation of same

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Construction Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field AND 10+ years related experience - OR equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • Beneficiary and compensation information is available via the Microsoft careers page
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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