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Senior Cost Manager – Dubai
The Company
Digby Morris’ client is a global consultancy providing a uniquely diverse, fully integrated range of construction and management expertise to clients in every sphere of public and private sector activity, all over the world.
Main Purpose of Role
• To perform the role of the Commission Manager, taking responsibility for end to end service delivery, often with respect to large or complex commissions. Typically, these projects are in the Hotels, Leisure and Commercial Sectors.
• To act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met through the delivery of a value added cost management service.
Scope
• Senior Cost Managers handle commissions of varying sizes, depending upon the complexity of the project, etc. Typically, projects fall within the US$ 40 to $100m range.
Key Accountabilities
• Commission Management, to include:
• Conducting feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
• Managing estimating and cost planning activities to include taking ownership of and presenting the final cost plan
• Managing the procurement process, ensuring that all stages including pre-qualification, enquiry, analysis, selection and contract preparation are performed effectively
• Ensuring that post-contract cost variances and change control processes are managed effectively
• Ensuring that cost checking and valuation work is managed effectively
• Ensuring the production of monthly post-contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
• Value engineering and life cycle costing
• Ensuring that final accounts are negotiated and agreed
• Taking a lead role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages
• Where appropriate, leading a cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on all of the above accountabilities
• Marketing and business development, to include:
• Identifying and acting upon cross-selling opportunities
• Working with Associate Directors and Directors to construct bids for new work
• Attending ‘beauty parades’ with Assistant Directors and Directors
• Identifying and acting upon opportunities to improve cost management procedures, templates and products and hence improve the service provided to clients
• Internal management accountabilities, to include:
• Staff management (where appropriate) - inputting into the formal management of an Assistant Cost Manager of small cost management team, to include 1st round recruitment interviews, input into resource management and attendance at junior staff appraisals
• Financial management - utilising FMS in order to keep track of the ongoing margin levels and monthly fee/resource forecasts for each commission
• Process improvement - identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems and processes
Reporting
• Depending upon context, a Senior Cost Manager is likely to report to an Associate Director or Director/Partner
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