Associate ( Cost Management )

Currie & Brown; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consultancy firm is seeking an Associate (Cost Management) in Abu Dhabi. The role involves providing cost advice, delivering projects, and supporting project leaders to ensure high service standards. Candidates should hold a BSc in quantity surveying, be MRICS qualified, and have pre contract experience within a consultancy. An emphasis on experience in large developments and good communication skills is essential for success. This position offers a career pathway with significant growth opportunities.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits packages

Clear structured route to progression

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent is required.
• Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) needed.
• Previous pre contract experience within a global consultancy firm is essential.
• Experience on large developments such as hospitality, leisure, residential, retail, and infrastructure.
• Middle East experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide accurate cost advice and reporting to clients.
• Deliver projects and professional assignments.
• Support project leaders with high service delivery.
• Maintain effective communication for successful project completion.
• Undertake cost management services with limited supervision.

Skills

Good technical writing

Client-facing skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Proactive attitude

Commercial awareness

Education

BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent

Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)

Job description

About The Role

Currie & Brown are looking for an Associate (Cost Management - pre contracts) to join our growing team in Abu Dhabi, working on exciting projects in the region. This role will require being based full time in Abu Dhabi, working in either our head office or the client office.

As an Associate, you will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider.

You will be :

• Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to our clients
• Delivering projects, commissions and professional assignments
• Assuming a leading role in setting objectives and priorities, working as a proactive team player
• Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for the successful completion of projects; liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control
• Undertaking cost management services with limited supervision
• Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
• Providing support to the team leader / service leaders in the cost management of projects
• Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships.

What do you need?

• BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent
• Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
• Previous pre contract experience gained within a global consultancy firm is essential
• Abu Dhabi based
• Experience on a variety of large developments such as hospitality, leisure, residential, retail and infrastructure
• Middle East experience essential
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute

About You

About Us

Currie & Brownprioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people’s futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage – providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.

We don’t offer just a job we offer a career with clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work everyday and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be taken seriously. Diverse people, backgrounds and experiences develop the most innovative of ideas, they are essential to our success, that is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.

With the backing of our parent company, we are a truly independent business. Our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions, as well as work directly with some of the world’s brightest partner brands in our industry through Dar Group.

We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.