• Serve as the primary client-facing cost leader, providing strategic guidance and ensuring delivery excellence. • Build and maintain strong relationships with senior client stakeholders, consultants, and delivery partners. • Prepare and present executive-level commercial updates, recommendations, and strategic insights. • Lead, mentor, and develop junior and mid-level team members, fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture. • Lead the development and maintenance of detailed cost plans, estimates, and forecasts across design and delivery phases. • Produce and present monthly cost reports, executive summaries, and financial updates. • Ensure strong integration of cost, schedule, and scope to support holistic project control and predictability. • Lead the establishment and implementation of cost governance frameworks and assurance processes. • Lead procurement strategy development, advising on contracting approaches and commercial positioning. • Oversee contractor and subcontractor pricing reviews, scope validation, and commercial negotiations. • Manage and reconcile change orders, claims, post-contract variations, and final accounts. • Provide commercial stewardship throughout the lifecycle, ensuring compliance with internal controls and best practices. • Lead value engineering initiatives and cost optimization strategies across design and delivery. • Drive cost risk analysis, scenario planning, contingency management, and sensitivity testing. • Monitor market trends—including escalation, labor availability, and material pricing—and communicate impacts to stakeholders. • Champion benchmarking, data integrity, and continuous improvement of cost management tools and processes.