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Cost & Commercial Lead - Data Centres

Accenture

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Aug 12, 2026

Location
Riyadh, Spring Towers Tower 1B, Saudi Arabia
Type
Full-time
Department
Sales
Seniority
Lead
Source
Workday

Description

  • About Accenture 

     

    Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com. 

  • Lead the commercial management of major Data Centre programmes across.  

  • Provide strategic commercial advice to clients and senior stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.  

  • Establish and maintain effective commercial governance and reporting structures.  

  • Oversee cost management, forecasting, budgeting, and financial reporting activities.  

  • Manage contract administration, change management, claims, and dispute avoidance processes.  

  • Drive value engineering and cost optimisation initiatives whilst maintaining programme objectives.  

  • Monitor project performance against approved budgets and commercial KPIs.  

  • Lead commercial risk identification, mitigation, and management strategies.  

  • Review procurement strategies and support contract negotiations with key suppliers and contractors.  

  • Collaborate closely with project management, planning, project controls, and technical teams to ensure integrated programme delivery.  

  • Provide leadership, mentoring, and development support to commercial and cost management teams.  

  • Ensure commercial processes are aligned with client requirements and industry best practice.  

  • Promote a culture of excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement across project teams. 

  • Experience in commercial management, quantity surveying, or commercial leadership roles.  

  • Extensive Data Centre experience, ideally supporting hyperscale, co-location, or mission-critical facilities.  

  • Strong background within a Project Management Consultancy (PMC), construction consultancy, or client-side environment.  

  • Experience managing large-scale capital projects valued in excess of $500m.  

  • Strong understanding of major forms of contract and commercial frameworks.  

  • Proven experience leading commercial teams across complex construction programmes.  

  • Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction Management, or a related discipline.  

  • Professional membership of RICS, CIOB, or equivalent is highly desirable. 

  • Previous Middle East project experience is highly desirable

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.

Skills

CybersecurityProcurementProject ManagementChange Management

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