Senior Cost Manager

Currie & Brown; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Currie & Brown in Dubai is seeking a Senior Cost Manager with Pre/Post-Contract project experience to join our growing team.

You will support project leaders with cost advice, deliver outputs, maintain financial control, and build strong client relationships. Dubai-based role requiring MRICS, a BSc in Quantity Surveying, and ME experience.

Qualifications

• BSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent.
• MRICS (Member of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors).
• Previous technical delivery experience in a global consultancy.
• Dubai-based.
• Experience on large developments (hospitality, leisure, residential, retail).
• Middle East experience essential.
• Excellent technical writing, client-facing and communication skills.
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, disciplined and commercially astute.

Responsibilities

• Provide accurate cost advice and reporting to our clients.
• Deliver projects, commissions and professional assignments.
• Lead in setting objectives and priorities, and work as a proactive team player.
• Maintain effective communication for successful project completion; liaise with managers for financial control.
• Undertake cost management services with limited supervision.
• Deliver all outputs accurately and on time.
• Support the team leader in cost management of projects.
• Represent the company professionally; meet, negotiate and build strong client relationships.

Skills

Cost management

Client facing

Communication

Leadership

MRICS

Education

MRICS

BSc in Quantity Surveying

Job description

Currie & Brown are looking for a Senior Cost Manager that has experience in Pre/Post -Contract projects to join our growing team in Dubai, UAE.

As a Senior Cost Manager 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 technical delivery experience gained within a global consultancy firm
• Dubai-based
• Experience on a variety of large developments such as hospitality, leisure, residential and retail
• Middle East experience essential
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute

Our corporate values

At Currie & Brown, we know that when it comes to a good idea, it doesn't matter where it comes from. That's why we take a collaborative, open-door approach to running our business. Our people, from apprentices to senior management, make our company what it is. Everyone in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced, contributes to our success in their own way, and we have fun doing it.

Unlike other companies, we focus on the long term and deliver on our commitments. We take a compassionate and inclusive approach to our work and always invest in the future of our people. Whether it's the desire to work internationally, the urge to develop, or even the curiosity to work in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage, offering guidance, support and the structure to achieve. That's why so many of us have been building successful careers here for so long.

With the backing of our parent company, we are an independent company. Our people are able to make quick and flexible decisions, and work directly with some of the world's best partner brands in our industry through Dar Group.

This mix of our scale and size, our partnerships and our people makes us a true industry leader around the world.