Senior Cost Manager

Role

Cost management and commercial delivery

• Lead project cost control, commercial governance, reporting, and coordination with client, project management, and site supervision teams.
• Establish cost management procedures, change-control protocols, payment workflows, reporting templates, and commercial registers.
• Review interim payment applications against verified progress and contractual entitlement.
• Lead assessment, negotiation, and recommendations on variations, claims, provisional sums, and commercial settlements.
• Maintain cost reports, commitments, accruals, cash-flow forecasts, anticipated final cost, and risk and opportunity allowances.

Contracts, procurement, and closeout

• Advise on notices, delay events, extension-of-time matters, and dispute avoidance.
• Review contractor quotations, rates, build-ups, quantities, and supporting records; challenge unsupported or non-compliant submissions.
• Support procurement, tender evaluations, commercial clarifications, negotiations, and award recommendations as needed.
• Manage final measurement, close out changes, and agree final accounts with complete supporting documentation.

Team and stakeholder leadership

• Lead and mentor cost managers, allocate workload, and ensure consistent, auditable commercial records.
• Present concise commercial dashboards and recommendations to senior client stakeholders.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Civil Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Typically 8+ years of relevant cost and commercial management experience, including major projects in KSA or the GCC.
• RICS, CIOB, or equivalent recognized chartered status is strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of measurement, valuations, change control, claims, final accounts, and procurement.
• Working knowledge of FIDIC-based contracts and KSA construction market practices.

Technical and professional skills

• Advanced Excel and cost-reporting capability; enterprise cost systems experience is advantageous.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and relevant project systems.
• Excellent written and spoken English, with strong reporting and stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary, fast-paced consultancy environment in KSA.
• High standards of integrity, confidentiality, organization, and attention to detail.