Senior Cost Manager

Turner & Townsend; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services firm based in Riyadh is seeking a Senior Cost Manager with strong expertise in Quantity Surveying. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in infrastructure projects, good leadership skills, and a passion for delivering results. This role includes managing cost planning and client relationships while leading a team, offering a dynamic environment for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Strong background in Quantity Surveying.
• Relevant work experience in a consultancy environment.
• Experience leading cost management commissions in the Middle East.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with clients and stakeholders.
• Responsible for pre and post-contract quantity surveying duties.
• Manage cost planning and estimating.
• Produce monthly cost reports.
• Negotiate and agree final accounts.

Skills

Leadership skills

Excellent English proficiency

Interpersonal skills

Management skills

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveying or similar

MRICS accreditation or similar

Job description

Overview

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives.

Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success. Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world. Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

Due to significant growth and ongoing delivery success with our clients in our Real Estate / Infrastructure we are currently recruiting a Senior Cost Manger with proven experience to join our Saudi Arabia based team.

The ideal applicant will have a strong background in Quantity Surveying, ideally gained through the delivery of complex infrastructure / real estate projects. Ideally you will have worked within a professional consultancy before, but those with a background in other areas, such as experience working for main contractors are encouraged to apply.

As a Senior Cost Surveyor you will be able to work independently managing your own deliverables, but also work well as part of a team. You will strive to promote and maintain the highest of professional standards, while supporting junior staff to grow and learn through your knowledge and experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate and develop good relationships with clients and stakeholders internally and externally
• Responsible for pre and post-contract quantity surveying duties
• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan
• Tendering and procuring, including managing the pre-qualification stage, producing the tender list, putting the preliminaries together, tender analysis, producing the tender report and compiling the contractual documents
• Dealing effectively with post contract cost variances and the change control process
• Producing monthly post contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
• Negotiating and agreeing final accounts
• Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all of the above accountabilities
• Supporting developing and securing new business opportunities as required.

Qualifications

• A recognised degree qualification in Quantity Surveying (or similar).
• MRICS accreditation or similar (preferred).
• Relevant work experience, ideally in a consultancy environment.
• Good leadership and interpersonal skills, able to work independently and where appropriate lead a team
• Experience of leading and successfully delivering cost management commissions in the Middle East market
• Experience working on Infrastructure projects
• Excellent command of written and spoken English
• Highly motivated and driven with a passion for your profession and the difference it can make to your clients.

Additional Information

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to formally submit candidates for review via our ATS.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com

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