Senior Cost Planning Manager

4 days ago


Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates Turner & Townsend Full time
Company Overview

Turner & Townsend is a globally recognized leader in cost management and construction consulting. With over 118 offices in 50 countries worldwide, we work closely with major clients to deliver complex and innovative projects.


Job Description

We are seeking an accomplished Senior Cost Manager to join our Real Estate team in Abu Dhabi. As a key member of our team, you will lead commissions of varying types and sizes, ensuring that client objectives are met through effective cost management services from pre-contract to handover.


Main Responsibilities
  1. Lead commissions of varying types and sizes, ensuring that client objectives are met through effective cost management services from pre-contract to handover.
  2. Provide excellent service delivery to clients, gain their trust and enhance our reputation.
  3. Ensure that client objectives are met through the delivery of an effective cost management service from pre-contract to handover.

Key Experience Requirements
  1. Detailed knowledge of and experience in the Real Estate / Property sector working for a professional cost consultancy.
  2. Experience of pre-contract services from feasibility through to tendering, measurement of building works for estimating, report writing, and preparation of Bills of Quantities and tender documentation.
  3. Experience of different procurement methods, single stage, two stage, and design and build preferred.
  4. Experience of post-contract services, interim applications, change management, variation valuation, and extension of time claims.
  5. Detailed experience of working with standard form contracts, FIDIC preferred, and administration of contract procedures.
  6. Demonstrable experience in client-facing roles, professional approach, and confidence in presenting to clients, other consultants, and project stakeholders.
  7. Demonstrable experience in dealing with contractors' personnel with confidence and assurance.
  8. Report writing, Estimate reports, Cost reports, Procurement reports, and Tender reports.

Key Accountabilities
  1. Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan.
  2. Production of full Bills of Quantities and tender documentation.
  3. Tendering and procuring, including managing the pre-qualification stage, producing the tender list, preparing preambles and preliminaries, tender queries, tender analysis, producing the tender report, and compiling the contractual documents.
  4. Dealing effectively with post-contract cost variances and the change control processes, where applicable.
  5. Taking personal responsibility for making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and in all cases ensuring that timely and accurate cost checking and valuation takes place.
  6. Producing pre-contract, post-contract, and ad-hoc reports and presenting them to the client.
  7. Negotiating with contractors and agreeing final accounts.
  8. Interfacing with the client, contractors, and other consultants, at all project stages.
  9. Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all of the above accountabilities.

Qualifications
  1. Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying or similar.
  2. MRICS.
  3. Minimum 7 years experience in similar roles.
  4. Prior UAE experience is essential.
  5. Prior consultancy experience is strongly preferred.
  6. Good knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management, and value engineering.
  7. Knowledge of CostX preferred.
  8. Knowledge of BIM preferred.

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