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About the Role

Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) is seeking a Sub Regional Cost Planning Lead to manage data center construction projects during the design phase in an EMEA region. This role offers an opportunity to contribute to a rapidly growing business and make a regional impact, aligning with Microsoft's mission to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.

Responsibilities

Lead project cost planning and estimating activities across all phases of data centre development, ensuring alignment with approved scope, schedule, budget, and business objectives.
Develop, review, and validate detailed cost estimates at key design milestones (30%, 60%, and 90% design completion), ensuring estimates are accurate, traceable, and supported by robust benchmarking and quantity take-offs.
Partner with design, engineering, construction, commercial, procurement, finance, and project controls teams to identify cost risks, opportunities, and value engineering solutions throughout project delivery.
Support site selection and business case development by providing constructability assessments, comparative cost analyses, funding recommendations, and investment decision support.
Drive cost governance and stage gate approvals, owning all cost estimate deliverables, assumptions, analysis, reporting, and approvals required to progress projects through key decision milestones.
Manage external consultants and estimating partners, ensuring high-quality outputs, consistent estimating methodologies, effective quality assurance, and timely delivery of contracted services.
Monitor and optimise project cost performance by tracking cost changes, identifying savings opportunities, managing risks, and implementing corrective actions to maintain alignment with approved project budgets and targets.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Quantity surveying, Construction Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent experience.
Demonstrable experience in Estimating in Construction Project Management and delivery.
Experience working on data center projects or other large scale construction projects / programs.
Good communication skills, ability to collaborate with all other areas of the data center program, being able to think strategically, ability to build the trust of our construction partners.
Must possess a clear understanding of the full Construction Life Cycle.
Strong analytical, problem-solving skills.
Develop, maintain, and report out on project scope, schedule, and budget with cost as the main driver in those conversations.
Cross-group collaborator and influencer across teams and organizations with proven success in participating in cross-functional teams to deliver on key projects.
Should be able to work within a dynamic team of full-time employees and consultants.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
Must pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Skills

Estimating
Construction Project Management
Data center projects
Large scale construction projects
Communication skills
Strategic thinking
Analytical skills
Problem-solving skills
Cost planning
Cost estimating
Benchmarking
Quantity take-offs
Value engineering
Constructability assessments
Comparative cost analyses
Cost governance
Risk management

Location

EMEA

Work Type

Hybrid
Remote

Experience Level

Education Level

Bachelor's Degree in Quantity surveying, Construction Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent experience.
Bachelor's Degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, or related field (Preferred)
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) full membership or equivalent (Preferred)

Salary/Compensations

Netherlands: € 131,400.00 - € 265,600.00 per year
United Kingdom: £ 100,400.00 - £ 200,500.00 per year
Ireland: € 113,600.00 - € 213,700.00 per year

Benefits

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

About the Company

Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO&I) is the team behind the cloud.
The MS portfolio consists of complex, multi-disciplinary, large scale, multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals.
Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Equal Opportunity

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.
If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.