**CENTRAL COST LEAD**
**Location:**
Boden, Sweden


**Contract duration:**
initial 12-month contract - renewable


**Start Date:**
ASAP


**Key Responsibilities**

- Develop, maintain, and own cost control standards, tools, templates, and procedures.
- Provide independent oversight of cost performance across all delivery areas, identifying variances, trends, and risks.
- Ensure a single, reliable source of cost data is maintained across the project lifecycle.
- Govern and coordinate the cost aspects of the integrated change control process, ensuring cross-functional impact assessments.
- Support Area Cost Leads in applying consistent cost methodologies and reporting standards.
- Provide training and guidance to cost control staff across the project.
- Produce consolidated cost dashboards and insights for leadership and the Project Improvement Unit.
- Drive continuous improvement in cost management systems, processes, and practices.
- Deploy cost resources into delivery areas when additional support is required.
- Manages the end?to?end change control process across all disciplines, ensuring changes are assessed, coordinated, and implemented.
- Own the change control framework, standards, workflows, and templates for the entire project.
- Ensure all proposed changes are assessed for impacts across cost, schedule, risk, and interfaces.
- Support area teams to embed effective change control practices.

**What We’re Looking For**

- ~15 years of experience in cost control within large-scale industrial or infrastructure projects, ideally under EPCM contracts.
- Deep understanding of cost management frameworks, including AACE and PMI standards.
- Proven experience working across interfaces such as engineering, procurement, construction, quality, and planning.
- Strong proficiency in cost control tools and reporting systems, including Earned Value Management (EVM), forecasting, and KPIs.
- Demonstrated ability to lead in complex, fast-paced environments with multiple stakeholders and shifting priorities.
- Strong communication and influencing skills; capable of working cross-functionally and supporting executive-level decisions.
- A proactive, solution-oriented mindset with a strong sense of structure, integrity, and accountability.