Senior Cost Manager

Currie & Brown Holdings; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Currie & Brown Group in Dubai is seeking a Senior Cost Manager to lead pre- and post-contract cost management across a diverse project portfolio in the Dubai region.

You will provide accurate cost advice, report to clients, and deliver projects and professional assignments while taking a leading role in objectives, priorities, and client relations. Strong MRICS credentials and a relevant degree are essential, along with broad sector experience.

Qualifications

• BSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent.
• MRICS professional membership.
• Experience on large developments in hospitality, leisure, residential, retail, and infrastructure.
• Strong technical writing and client-facing communication.
• Well-organised, commercially astute and proactive.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Communication skills

Client-facing

Team player

Proactive & diligent

Education

BSc in Quantity Surveying or equivalent

Tools

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 & 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.