Senior Cost Manager

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Lead project cost control, commercial governance, reporting, and coordination with the client, project management, and site supervision teams.
• Establish cost management procedures, change-control protocols, payment workflows, reporting templates, and commercial registers.
• Review and recommend interim payment applications based on verified progress and contractual entitlement.
• Lead the assessment, negotiation, and recommendation of variations, claims, provisional sums, and commercial settlements.
• Prepare and maintain cost reports, commitments, accruals, cash-flow forecasts, anticipated final cost, and risk/opportunity allowances.
• Provide contractual and commercial advice, including support 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 where required.
• Manage final measurement, close-out of changes, and agreement of final accounts with complete supporting documentation.
• 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.
• Chartered status with RICS, CIOB, or an equivalent recognised professional body is strongly preferred.
• Required Skills
• Strong knowledge of measurement, valuations, change control, claims, final accounts, and procurement.
• Working knowledge of FIDIC-based contracts and KSA construction market practices.
• Advanced Excel and cost-reporting capability; experience with enterprise cost systems is advantageous.
• Excellent written and spoken English, strong reporting, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and relevant project systems.

Work Environment

• The role requires the ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary, fast-paced consultancy environment within KSA. Candidates should demonstrate high standards of integrity, confidentiality, organisation, and attention to detail.