Senior Cost Manager

Currie & Brown Group Limited; Dubai; On-site; AED 334,800 - 502,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits packages

Career progression opportunities

International mobility encouraged

Job summary

A leading cost management consultancy in Dubai is seeking a Senior Cost Manager to oversee pre and post-contract cost management services. The successful candidate will provide cost advice, deliver projects, and maintain effective communication with clients. Qualifications include a BSc in Quantity Surveying and MRICS membership. The role requires strong technical writing and communication skills, and offers a clear progression route and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience in large developments such as hospitality, leisure, residential, retail, and infrastructure.
• Well-organized, diligent, proactive, assertive, and commercially astute.
• A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude.

Responsibilities

• Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to clients.
• Delivering projects and professional assignments.
• Maintaining effective communication for project completion.

Skills

Technical writing

Client-facing skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

BSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent

Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)

Job description

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

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
• Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
• 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 & Brown prioritise 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.

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 every day 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.