Cost Manager📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Cost Manager to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position requires a professional with a background in Real Estate and Quantity Surveying, ideally gained through the delivery of complex infrastructure or real estate projects. Experience within a professional consultancy is preferred, but candidates with experience working for main contractors are also encouraged to apply.

Role Context and Responsibilities

As a Cost Manager, you will be responsible for a range of pre and post-contract quantity surveying duties. This includes developing strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, performing estimating and cost planning, and producing final cost plans. You will manage tendering and procurement processes, including pre-qualification, tender analysis, and contract compilation. The role also involves effectively managing post-contract cost variances and change control, producing monthly cost reports for client presentation, and negotiating final accounts. Where appropriate, you will lead a cost management team, ensuring all accountabilities are met, and support the development and securing of new business opportunities.

Key Duties and Accountabilities

• 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, including 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 and Experience

Candidates should possess a degree qualification in Quantity Surveying or a similar relevant field. A minimum of 5 years’ experience in similar roles is required. You must have good knowledge of the construction industry and technical matters. Knowledge of CostX is essential. The ability to work in a remote location is also a requirement. Professional membership, such as MRICS, is considered an advantage.

Work Environment and Expectations

This role is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and is a full-time position. The ideal candidate will be able to work independently, managing their own deliverables, while also functioning effectively as part of a team. A commitment to promoting and maintaining the highest professional standards is expected, along with supporting junior staff development through knowledge sharing and experience.