Cost Manager

Currie & Brown Holdings; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 391,000 - 614,000; Full time

Job summary

Currie & Brown is seeking a Cost Manager to join our Abu Dhabi team. You will provide cost management across pre and post contract stages, advising clients and ensuring rigorous financial control on a portfolio of developments.

As a Cost Manager you will lead on cost objectives, maintain strong client relationships and contribute to project outputs with accuracy and timeliness. Join a proactive, collaborative team focused on long-term careers and international mobility.

Qualifications

• BSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent.
• Experience in hospitality, leisure, residential, retail and infrastructure.
• Strong technical writing, client-facing and communication skills.
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive and commercially astute.

Responsibilities

• Provide accurate cost advice and reporting to clients.
• Deliver projects, commissions and professional assignments.
• Lead objectives and priorities as a proactive team player.
• Maintain communication for information and financial control.
• Undertake cost management with limited supervision.
• Deliver outputs accurately and on time.
• Support team leaders in cost management of projects.
• Represent Currie & Brown professionally to clients.

Skills

Cost estimation

Client communication

Team player

Proactive

Financial control

Education

BSc in Quantity Surveying

Job description

Currie & Brown is looking for a Cost Manager to join our team in Abu Dhabi. As a Cost Manager you'll work on pre and post contract cost management services across a portfolio of exciting projects.

What will you be doing?

• 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
• Experience in a variety of large developments such as hospitality, leisure, residential, retail, and infrastructure
• Good technical writing, client-facing, and communication skills
• Well-organized, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined, and commercially astute
• A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful, and flexible

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.