Associate Director

6 months 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 managing costs and budgets for a major high profile development program in KSA. Responsibility includes managing client relationships and managing and coordinating the activities of all other members of the Gleeds Cost Management Teams on commissions.Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Positively engaging with the client and developing, growing and maintaining client relationships.
- Delivering high quality services and ensuring that cost management deliverables meet the client's requirements.
- Managing projects to deliver high quality services and deliverables in accordance with the business procedures.
- Preparing and presenting order of cost estimates and option studies
- Cost planning and benchmarking
- Cost-in-use studies
- Advising on and implementing procurement strategies
- Preparing tender documentation and managing the tender process, including designing tender marking schemes, and evaluating and reporting on tenders
- Valuing completed work and arranging for payments
- Producing and presenting reports to the client.
- Mentoring and coaching employees so that they realize their full potential
- Preparing bids for services
- Managing service delivery for profit
- Advising Directors promptly of any issues that have arisen, or that might arise.
- Actively identifying new business development opportunities and driving growth across the Business Units activities.

**About You**:
**Who we are looking for**:
**Experience, Knowledge and Key Skills**
- Broad, in-depth cost management experience post MRICS qualification.
- 15+ years’ experience working within cost management/quantity surveying.
- Detailed knowledge and practiced experience of cost estimating and cost planning techniques.
- Sound knowledge of the industry (including factors affecting it) and construction methods and materials.
- Comprehensive knowledge of construction procurement strategies, including tendering and contract strategies.
- Thorough knowledge and experience of post-contract cost management tasks.
- Experience working within the Middle East is a must.
- Essential Infrastructure experience needed.
- Ability to administer construction contracts as Contract Administrator and Employer’s Agent.
- Clear understanding of legislation impacting on building contracts.
- Ability to motivate others (including providing support and encouragement) and to lead high performance teams
- Clear and effective communication skills - both oral and written.
- Strong pre-contract experience is necessary.
- Methodical way of thinking and approach to work.
- Ability to absorb complex information and assess requirements readily.
- Excellent problem solving, negotiating, financial and numeracy skills.
- Sound ICT skills, with a high level of proficiency in MS Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Ability to prepare first-class bids for services.
- Transferrable Iqamas is preferable.

**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

**Behaviours**:

- People Focused - Motivated to create and maintain positive relationships
- Creative - We solve problems and introduce new ideas
- Performance -led - Driven to exceed client expectations
- Collaborative - We foster a progressive and inclusive work ethic
- Accountable - we act with integrity and take responsibility

**About Us**:
**Joining 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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