As an Associate, Cost Management 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

In this role you will:

• Serve as the key account manager, building strong client relationships grounded in partnership, trust, and long-term value.
• Oversee and drive delivery of key strategic client projects.
• Develop accurate estimates and cost plans for major client initiatives.
• Demonstrate high proficiency in CostX and databook development.
• Manage and guide large, diverse teams effectively.
• Lead the preparation of QTOs for Cost Plans and Bills of Quantities.
• Develop, implement, and maintain comprehensive QA/QC Plans and Manuals to ensure project quality.
• Exhibit strong proficiency in MEP packages and a solid understanding of MEPF works.
• Possess foundational knowledge of procurement processes for global projects.
• Coordinate and deliver across multiple projects and stakeholders operating in various time zones.
• Provide active support to Sales and Marketing initiatives.
• Contribute to the drafting and refinement of client proposals.
• Strengthen client relationships to support ongoing business growth.
• Deliver training and mentorship to leaders and team members.
• Foster a high-performance culture and support employee development through strong leadership.
• Lead the team to deliver outstanding quality, service excellence, and client value.

We would love to hear from you if you:

• Have a minimum 15 years of experience in cost management especially pre construction works, ideally from a consultancy background, on large scale construction projects (ideally in pharmaceutical/life sciences project).
• Have a minimum of 4 years of past work experience on Cost X (or Planswift/Cubicost/Candy/ZW CAD).
• Have experience and confidence to lead a business, build a team and develop trusted client relationships.
• Are chartered or are on the path to complete it. We can help.
• Are savvy in understanding the business model and pursuing market opportunities.
• Have a degree or comparable experience in a cost management or construction discipline.
• Are an excellent communicator verbally and in writing, both in English and Chinese.
• Love a dynamic environment with the opportunity to manage your own priorities and deadlines.
• 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 note that CVs need to be submitted in English. 

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!