Sr. Estimating Manager, AMER Estimating and Cost Control

Job :  | Amazon Data Services, Inc.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. Our Data Center Planning and Delivery (DCPD) organization builds and scales the infrastructure that powers AWS. We are seeking a Sr. Estimating Manager to join the newly formed AMER Estimating and Cost Control (ECC) organization as a senior individual contributor and estimating subject matter expert.

This is a senior IC role with scope that spans multiple mega clusters — the largest and most complex cluster groupings in AMER. Beyond your own portfolio, you serve as an AMER-wide subject matter expert, setting the estimating standards, methodologies, and estimating vendor management practices that ECC adopts across all cluster groups. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, making precedent-setting pricing and estimating judgment calls with minimal oversight, and representing the estimating function directly to senior leadership and cross-functional partners.

You are a force multiplier for the estimating team: mentoring more junior Estimating Managers and Discipline Estimators, driving the estimate-to-actual feedback methodology across all AMER cluster groups, and influencing across Cost Control, Preconstruction, Design Engineering, and Finance.

Own estimating for multiple mega clusters — AMER’s largest and most complex cluster groupings — aligned with the Cost Control, Preconstruction, and Construction Management counterparts for those clusters, and take a lead role in Program-wide Global deliverables
Serve as an AMER-wide estimating subject matter expert — establishing standards, methodologies, and best practices adopted across all cluster groups
Own and mature the third‑party estimating vendor program in your region — defining deliverable standards, quality mechanisms, and performance expectations that scale estimating capacity across AMER
Lead the estimate‑to‑actual feedback methodology across cluster groups, systematizing how benchmark data from Cost Control calibrates future estimates portfolio‑wide
Make precedent‑setting pricing and estimating judgment calls autonomously on novel, high‑ambiguity, or first‑of‑kind scope — the escalation point for junior Estimating Managers or Estimators
Represent the estimating function to senior leadership in intercept and innovation decision meetings, capital planning, OP reviews, and CAR governance — translating estimating data into leadership‑ready cost narratives
Lead complex, cross‑cluster estimating exercises — mega‑campus estimates, new‑region pricing, and portfolio‑level cost estimating
Provide Sr. Level inputs and vendor oversight/deliverables to the global BOD Program, Design Change Management, Innovation, New Regions Planning, and intercept pricing scope alongside regional estimating teams from EMEA and APJC.
Formally mentor junior Estimating Managers and Discipline Estimators, building estimating capability and consistency across the team
Drive Cost Breakdown Structure evaluation and contractor pricing validation for the highest‑value or most contested awards, setting the analytical standard for the team
Reverse engineer awarded contracts and build portfolio‑level pricing intelligence that informs BOD estimating, VE opportunities, and OP planning across AMER
Partner with analytics teams to integrate estimating data into portfolio benchmarking, forecasting, and AI/analytics initiatives

Your morning starts with a cross‑cluster review — a junior Estimating Manager has flagged inconsistent unit rates on similar mechanical scopes in different markets, and you’re setting the standard for how the team normalizes cluster…