Director, Cost Management

2 weeks ago


المملكة العربية السعودية, Saudi Arabia Gleeds Full time

**About The Role**:
**About this opportunity**

The is a great opportunity to join as a senior member of Gleeds Arabia, responsible for leading multiple high profile commissions, and playing a key role in developing and growing the business in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- In this role, you will be a leading member of the Gleeds management team, responsible for representing the company as an ambassador.Responsibility includes managing client relationships and managing and coordinating the activities of all other members of the Gleeds Cost Management Teams.

**Responsibilities include but are not limited to**:

- Formulating and managing strategies to deliver the business objectives.
- Actively identifying new business development opportunities and driving growth across the region.
- Ensuring that projects are managed in accordance with Gleeds processes and procedures (governance and controls).
- Agreeing fees and charges for potential services.
- Agreeing appointments / scope of services. Ensuring that appointments are in place prior to commencing service delivery.
- Delivering high quality services and deliverables ensuring that services meet our Customer’s requirements.
- Managing and maintaining Customer relationships (i.e. Clients, business partners and other consultants). Ensuring a Customer care plan is in place.
- Ensuring sufficient resources are made available to deliver services on our projects, including managing resource conflict resolution (with fellow directors).
- Leading and managing Teams, including working with Associate Directors in managing resources and workload. Ensuring compliance with administrative requirements (appraisals, training, timesheets etc)
- Managing employees, focusing on retention and development.
- Developing and enhancing Gleeds cost management capability.
- Briefing employees on relevant aspects of Gleeds business.
- Preparing bids for services.
- Managing service delivery for profit.
- Managing the commercial aspects of projects (e.g. scope of services/deliverables, invoices, payments, and debt management).
- Working harmoniously with other Directors across the region

**About You**:
**Who we’re looking for**:
**Experience, Knowledge and Key Skills**
- 20+ years cost management experience post MRICS qualification
- 10+ years experience living and working in the GCC
- Extensive experience working and leading cost consultancy
- Detailed knowledge and practical experience of cost estimating and cost planning techniques
- Excellent knowledge of construction procurement strategies, including tendering and contract strategies
- Ability to motivate others (including providing support and encouragement)
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to quickly adapt to changing environments
- Excellent problem solving, negotiating skills, financial and numeracy management skills
- Ability to absorb complex information and assess requirements readily
- Proficient networker
- Specialist knowledge of a specific industry sector (i.e. Residential, Hotels, Commercial, Retail, Leisure, Education, or other)
- Ability to prepare first-class bids for services
- Competent at negotiating sufficient fees to both complete services and generate required profit levels
- Demonstrable evidence of delivering services to Clients and managing Client relationships
- Demonstrable experience of timely interfacing with clients and key stakeholders at the highest level

**Qualifications**MRICS (Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), or equivalent
-Degree in Quantity Surveying or equivalent
-Native level English language, written and oral

**About Us**:
**Be part of the extraordinary**

Every day at Gleeds, we influence the way people around the world live, work and travel. Delivering on the world’s most iconic projects for globally renowned clients, our teams solve complex problems that shape the future of the built environment.

One of the qualities we value in people, is the ability to think creatively about the solutions we offer to clients. With 71 offices spanning the Americas, Europe, MENA and Asia Pacific our ability to innovate and improve is a product of the varied backgrounds and experience of our people. We welcome new perspectives and ideas.

Above all, we believe that quality relationships sit at the heart of good business. We strive to be the people that seek to understand and bring people together. Wherever we are in the world, our aspiration is to leave a positive legacy for people and local communities, whilst living and breathing our three core values:

- We’re committed to our clients and our people
- We’re creative and realistic
- We combine professionalism with personality


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