Senior Cost Manager (Pre contracts)

Currie & Brown; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy in cost management is seeking a Senior Cost Manager for projects in Dubai. The candidate will be responsible for providing cost advice, delivering projects, and maintaining client relationships. Required qualifications include a BSc in quantity surveying and MRICS membership. This role offers a clear route to career progression within an inclusive and diverse environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Career progression opportunities

International mobility encourages

Qualifications

• Experience in large developments such as hospitality, leisure, residential, and retail.
• Good technical writing and client communication skills.
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, and commercially astute.

Responsibilities

• Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to clients.
• Delivering projects, commissions, and professional assignments.
• Assuming a leading role in setting objectives and priorities.
• Maintaining effective communication for successful project completion.
• Undertaking cost management services with limited supervision.

Skills

Cost management

Technical writing

Client communication

Proactive team player

Education

BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent

Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)

Job description

Overview

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.

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

Qualifications

• 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 Currie & Brown

Why choose Currie & Brown?

Unlike some businesses, we prioritize 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.