Senior Cost Manager; Pre

We are seeking an experienced Lead Senior Cost Manager to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate should have extensive pre‑contract experience and a strong background in the real estate sector, with a focus on commercial real estate. You will play a key role in ensuring our projects are delivered within scope, on time, and within budget while maintaining quality.

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions. We are majority‑owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

• Lead pre‑contract cost management responsibilities.
• Provide advice and support on cost‑effective solutions, including value engineering.
• Conduct risk assessments and ensure contingency budgets are managed appropriately.
• Prepare regular reports on projects highlighting any deviations from the budget.
• Review and analyze project costs including preliminaries, overheads and materials.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards, client requirements and regulatory bodies.
• Mentor and train junior cost managers.
• Collaborate with clients and other stakeholders to ensure the project is managed effectively.

• Education: Degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Civil Engineering, or a related field.
• Professional accreditation: MRICS, AIQS or equivalent (highly preferred).
• Experience: 10+ years in cost management with a strong focus on pre‑contract. Proven ability to lead and manage multiple projects independently.
• Communication skills: Excellent written and verbal communication, client‑facing roles and stakeholder coordination.
• Local benchmark knowledge: Understanding of local cost benchmarks; GCC/UAE market experience is advantageous but not mandatory.
• Technical skills: Proficiency in cost planning, estimating and tender documentation; ability to present cost strategies and reports; strong understanding of measurement methods (NRM, POMI, CESMM); skilled in measurement software such as CostX or similar.
• Leadership: Ability to lead cost management activities across multiple projects, strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, mentoring junior staff and coordinating multidisciplinary teams.