Per-MW pricing, regional variance, and cost drivers for owners scoping hyperscale & AI builds.
Salary benchmarks across the 14 mission-critical disciplines.
Hire Senior Cost Managers who own cost across a program — multiple projects, portfolio-level reporting, client-facing cost governance, and the cost team underneath them. Verified on program-level forecast accuracy and the client relationships that renewed because of it.
A structured process for the senior cost hire — the seat that rolls project-level noise into a program number an executive team can actually steer by.
30-minute call. We align on program size and structure, owner-side vs. consultancy seat, team to be led, cost platform, and the executive reporting the role owns.
Within 2 weeks we introduce 3–5 Senior Cost Managers with sector-matched program history at your capex scale. References from clients and program executives included.
Every placement carries a replacement guarantee — retained search, contract, and direct hire alike.
We verify candidates have actually run cost at program scale — multiple concurrent projects, consolidated reporting, portfolio contingency strategy — not one big project with a senior title.
Senior cost seats carry account relationships. We reference how candidates handled cost governance conversations with owners and executives — especially when the news was bad.
Reference-verified management of cost managers, cost engineers, and analysts — review discipline, standards, and development of the bench underneath them.
Reference-verified ownership of program-level budgets, EACs, and cash flow — typically $250M–$2B+ aggregate capex — with consolidated executive reporting.
How program forecasts tracked against outturn cost, and how early variances surfaced — verified with the executives who consumed the reporting.
Program change control, trend management, contingency and risk drawdown governance — consistent across projects, not reinvented per PM.
Depth in Procore, Kahua, e-Builder, Unifier, EcoSys, or equivalent — plus the reporting standards and templates they built for teams to run on.
We’ll help calibrate on the call — program scale, team size, and client-facing weight usually settle whether you need a cost manager, a senior, or a commercial leader.
Time to shortlist is typically 2 weeks; total time to placement typically 4–6 weeks. Program-level cost talent in data center and life sciences is among the most competed-for in the market — most placements come from direct outreach, not applications.
Most US Senior Cost Manager base salaries fall between $150,000 and $200,000, with hyperscale data center and semiconductor programs commonly reaching $175,000–$225,000 plus bonus. Owner-direct program seats typically price at or above equivalent consultancy seats.
A Senior Cost Manager owns the numbers — budgets, forecasts, change, reporting. A Commercial Manager owns the contractual position — procurement, entitlement, claims exposure, and margin. On owner-side programs the cost seat often leads; on contractor-side the commercial seat usually does. We help you scope which one you actually need.
Yes. A large share of senior cost talent sits inside global cost consultancies, and many are open to owner-direct or developer seats with broader scope. We map those networks continuously and recruit from them directly.
Yes. Every placement carries a replacement guarantee, on every engagement model.
We verify program-scale evidence — consolidated reporting, portfolio contingency strategy, client renewals — with executives who consumed the work. Senior titles are cheap; program outcomes are not.
30-minute scoping conversation. We’ll review the program, the cost team, platform, and reporting expectations — then start sourcing from a mapped network of senior cost leaders in your sector.
