Cost Manager
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About the Role
Turner & Townsend seeks an experienced Cost Manager for their Riyadh team. The role involves pre and post-contract quantity surveying duties, cost planning, tendering, and client relationship management.
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Responsibilities
- Collaborate and develop good relationships with clients and stakeholders
- 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 pre qualification, tender list, preliminaries, tender analysis, tender report, and 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
- Supporting developing and securing new business opportunities as required
Requirements
- Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying or similar
- Minimum 5 years experience in similar roles
- Good knowledge of the construction industry and technical matters
- Knowledge of CostX (Essential)
- Professional membership (e.g., MRICS) is an advantage
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Company Overview
- Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
- We work with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources.
- Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
Job Description
- We are looking to recruit an experienced Cost Manager, from a Real Estate background to join our Saudi Arabia based team in Riyadh.
- The ideal applicant will have a strong background in Quantity Surveying, ideally gained through the delivery of complex infrastructure / real estate projects.
- As a Cost Manager, you will be able to work independently managing your own deliverables but also work well as part of a team.
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
- Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying or similar.
- Able to work in a remote location
- Professional membership is an advantage i.e. MRICS.
- Minimum 5 years experience in similar roles.
- Good knowledge of the construction industry and technical matters.
- Knowledge of CostX (Essential)
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