Implenia Schweiz AG
Opfikon
Senior Cost Manager (m/f/d), Opfikon, 80-100%
- 06 October 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Opfikon
Job summary
Join us as a Senior Cost Manager at Implenia, a leader in construction. This role offers a chance to shape innovative infrastructure projects.
Tasks
- Oversee budgeting and forecasting for complex construction projects.
- Analyze cost developments and provide decision-making support.
- Manage tendering processes and contract negotiations effectively.
Skills
- Degree in civil engineering or similar; extensive cost management experience.
- Strong analytical and numerical skills with risk awareness.
- Excellent communication and negotiation abilities in German and English.
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About the job
Are you looking for more than just the next project? With us, you take responsibility for the cost management of complex construction and infrastructure projects, ensuring transparent, forward-looking, and reliable cost control throughout all project phases. With your commercial understanding, you support project management in key decisions and contribute significantly to project success.
Tasks
What tasks await you as a Senior Cost Manager (m/f/d)?
- Overall responsibility for construction cost planning, budgeting, and forecasting of demanding data centre projects.
- Analysis of cost developments, risks, and opportunities as well as preparation of sound decision-making bases for project management.
- Management of tendering and awarding processes including bid evaluation, contract negotiations, and award recommendations.
- Ensuring transparent cost controlling by monitoring budgets, commitments, changes, and forecasts.
- Commercial evaluation of claims and project changes as well as support for change management.
- Conducting cost, market, and benchmark analyses to identify optimisation and saving potentials.
- Further development of cost management standards, processes, and tools as well as professional support and coordination within the project team.
Requirements
What do you bring as a Senior Cost Manager (m/f/d)?
- Completed studies in civil engineering, industrial engineering, quantity surveying, project management, building services engineering, or a comparable qualification.
- Several years of professional experience in cost management, calculation/construction cost planning, quantity surveying, or construction/project management.
- Sound knowledge in cost planning, forecasting, tendering, awarding, and commercial contract management.
- Experience in change, claim, or contract management as well as handling cost management and reporting tools.
- Ideally experience in complex construction, infrastructure, industrial, or data centre projects.
- Strong analytical thinking, high affinity for numbers, and a strong cost and risk awareness.
- Independent and structured working style combined with convincing communication and negotiation skills.
- Very good German and English skills.
Benefits
What benefits do we offer you as a Senior Cost Manager (m/f/d)?
- A multicultural working environment with the chance to help shape a liveable future
- State-of-the-art technologies and a contemporary workplace at a sustainable company
- A company that promotes talents and the further training of its employees
- The security of a financially healthy, broadly positioned group with strong roots in Switzerland
- Flexible working models with up to 40% home office
- Excellent travel insurance for you and persons living in the same household
- An exciting selection of benefits
- 5 weeks holiday (6 weeks from the age of 50) and 9 paid bridge days
- An in-house pension fund with a very good coverage ratio and 3 contribution levels
- Numerous discounts on well-known providers of products and services
How does the application process at Implenia work?
At Implenia, you can expect a simple and transparent application process:
- Online application with CV
- Personal initial interview by phone, digitally, or on site
- Second interview and offer phase
What else is important to us
At Implenia, we value and live diversity. Our selection process is therefore aimed at promoting diversity, equality, and inclusion. Applications from people with disabilities are expressly welcome.
About Implenia
As a leading Swiss construction and real estate service provider, Implenia develops, realises, and manages living spaces, work environments, and infrastructure for future generations in Switzerland and Germany. Additionally, Implenia offers tunnel construction and related infrastructure projects in other markets. The company combines expertise from highly qualified consulting, development, planning, and execution units under one roof to form an integrated, multinational leading construction and real estate service provider and employs around 9,000 people across Europe.
