Senior Cost Manager (Pre contracts)

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?

1. Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to our clients
2. Delivering projects, commissions and professional assignments
3. Assuming a leading role in setting objectives and priorities, working as a proactive team player
4. Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for the successful completion of projects; liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control
5. Undertaking cost management services with limited supervision
6. Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
7. Providing support to the team leader / service leaders in the cost management of projects
8. Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships

What do you need?

1. BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent
2. Membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
3. Pre / post contract experience gained from a global consultancy firm
4. Experience on a variety of large developments such as hospitality, leisure, residential, retail etc
5. Previous Middle East experience is preferred
6. Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills
7. Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute