Senior Cost Manager

Client of AESG

Due to the continued success and growth of our AESG team, several fantastic opportunities have opened up at our award-winning Specialist Consultancy, Engineering, and Advisory Firm. We are headquartered in London, Riyadh, Singapore, South Africa, and Dubai, working throughout the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. Our areas of expertise are represented in four core verticals: Building Engineering, Planning and Infrastructure, Strategy and Advisory, and Commissioning, Handover, and Asset Management. We pride ourselves on being leaders in the industry in each of the services that we offer. We have one of the largest dedicated teams with decades of cumulative experience in sustainable design, fire and life safety, cost management, fa ade engineering, commissioning, building performance, waste management, environmental consultancy, carbon management, and acoustics.

Job Description:
AESG are currently recruiting a Senior Cost Manager to join our growing cost management team based in the KSA working on various large scale building projects. This role mainly consists of a large-scale mall, tower and hotel projects. The role is based on site in Khobar, KSA.
As a Senior Cost Manager, you 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.
You should be a self-motivated and client facing professional, with the ability to manage multiple projects and clients or developing your career towards that objective. The role will primarily be pre-contract based, but with the opportunity to assist on post-contract-based projects as required.
This exciting position is to work within a market leading & growing team of cost management professionals, working alongside leading global architects, interior designers, and engineers, advising major industry clients.
The successful candidate will have experience working as part of a dedicated consultancy team delivering successful cost management services on major projects. The role will offer opportunity for progression and career development. You will need to demonstrate relevant and recent experience with appropriately sized projects as well as the ability to engage and communicate effectively with clients, consultants, and contractors. The ideal candidate will have a technical and experience-based QS background, a solid understanding of numerous design standards, and the ability to communicate advice appropriately and effectively. MRICS achievement or aspiration is preferred but not necessarily mandatory for the right individual.

Key Responsibilities:
• Day-to-day management of cost management activities on your projects
• Supporting and preparing project cost estimates from concept through various stages of design using experience, historical data, and parametric ratios
• Utilisation of the existing AESG developed digital tools and contributing to the creation of new and bespoke tools for our clients
• Advanced cost modelling (Excel)
• Estimating and functional cost planning (CostX)
• Advising and driving value engineering prerogatives
• 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
• Providing reasoned advice on complex matters, understanding when to escalate matters to superiors
• Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to our clients
• Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for the successful completion of projects; liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control
• Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
• Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships
• Independently manage complex projects and resolve complex project issues
• Provide mentorship and support to the graduate and junior cost management team
• Support the commercial success and stability of the cost management division
• Ensure the successful delivery of projects to exemplary levels of quality
• Demonstrate expertise in discipline with a proven track record of success
• Support the development of procedures to improve division function and efficiency
• Support in the preparation, submission and winning of proposals (if required)
• Pipeline and invoicing management for CM projects under your management
• Supporting client account management, monthly invoicing, purchase order management and reviewing contractual terms

Essential Skills:
• Experience in delivering high quality cost management / quantity surveying services
• Previous technical delivery experience gained within a global consultancy firm is preferred
• Middle East experience essential
• KSA experience preferred. Role based on site in Khobar KSA
• Experience or exposure to regional projects is an advantage
• Mall, tower and hotel experience essential
• Advanced utilisation and application of Microsoft excel for the creation of cost models
• Utilising digital software for delivery of cost management services
• Ability to successfully manage and prioritise more than one project at a time
• Professional qualification (RICS or similar)
• BSc, BTech or MSc in Quantity Surveying or Contracts-related field
• Minimum 7+ years of working experience
• Ability to lead a large projects with minimal support
• Good technical writing, client-facing, and communication skills
• Well-organized, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined, and commercially astute
• A team player with a can-do attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful, and flexible