Director – Cost Management

Overview

As a Director at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients. 

The Opportunity

In this role you will:

• Responsible for growing a new business entity in the East Polanco area, managing a team of employees, including hiring, training, and performance management.
• Responsible for building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders, including clients, partners, and other organizations.
• Be a DE&I leader by being a voice for marginalized groups and create a safe and equitable working environment for everyone.
• Understand and be an advocate for the Linesight culture - encouraging clarity, candor, and openness at all levels.
• Manage and develop key accounts with major corporations that have a significant capex and global presence.
• Be responsible for achieving revenue targets, managing team costs, and meeting the business gross margin requirements.
• Provide regular reports to senior management on accounts performance including financial performance, customer satisfaction, and other key metrics.
• Be a regular voice at the Regional Senior Leadership Team meetings providing input on initiatives and business strategy.
• Advocate and implement the highest standards of Health and Safety in everything we do.
• Advocate for innovation, engaging in global initiatives to deliver process automation design and data gathering.
• Act with integrity and conduct yourself in a proper, professional, and responsible manner.
• Understand and implement strict client confidentiality policies and continuously communicate these requirements to employees.
• Collaborate with E/VPs to develop and execute a regional strategy that aligns with the overall goals and objectives of the organization.
• Partner with Linesight marketing team to develop and implement regional strategies that promote brand awareness and deliver the best ROI for the business.
• Partner with the Linesight talent acquisition team to develop a pipeline of local talent in the region.
• Partner with HR to ensure all staff hired in the region have a best-in-class onboarding experience.
• Advocate for attendance in the office and engage with and support all staff on a regular basis.

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Have grown your experience in construction/project management +15 years with increasing levels of leadership and people management
• Have a degree or comparable experience in Construction Management, Quantity Surveying or another construction related discipline
• Have experience in Hyperscale Data Center or large scale industrial/mission critical experience
• Preferred candidates will have cost, scheduling, and project controls experience within this market, as well as have supported US projects.
• Are PMP and LEED AP qualified or on the path to completing it. We can help!
• Have a passion for building your global team and developing and encouraging your employees through mentoring, coaching, and training on new techniques
• Thrive on building strong relationships with your team and clients through a shared purpose and sense of openness and fun

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

***Please submit resume in English***

About us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!  

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility   

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!