Senior Cost Manager (Pre contracts)

Currie & Brown Holdings; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Currie & Brown is seeking a Senior Cost Manager to join our client‑facing team in Dubai, delivering rigorous cost advice across diverse building projects.

You will support project leaders, maintain financial controls, and build strong relationships with clients and consultants while upholding our standards of accuracy and professional service.

This role requires MRICS, a BSc in Quantity Surveying, and Middle East experience, with a proactive, well-organised approach.

Qualifications

• MRICS designation required.
• Pre/post contract experience from a global consultancy.
• Experience on large developments (hospitality, leisure, residential, retail).
• Strong client-facing and communication skills.
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive and commercially astute.

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 information is available for successful completion of projects; liaising with managers for financial control
• Undertaking cost management services with limited supervision
• Delivering all work outputs accurately and timely
• Providing support to the team leader in cost management of projects
• Representing the company professionally; meeting, negotiating and building client relationships

Skills

MRICS

Client facing

Cost management

Communication

Team player

Education

BSc in Quantity Surveying

Job description

Currie & Brown is looking for a Senior Cost Manager to join our team in a client facing role, working on various building projects based in Dubai.

The successful candidate 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.

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)
• Pre / post contract experience gained from a global consultancy firm
• Experience on a variety of large developments such as hospitality, leisure, residential, retail etc
• Previous Middle East experience is preferred
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute

About Us

Why choose Currie & Brown?

Unlike some businesses, we 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. 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