Cost Planning Lead - Transport Hubs

Cost Planning Lead
- Transport Hubs Job Snapshot Role:
Cost Planning Lead
- Transport Hubs

Location:

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Transportation-Trucking-Railroad Function:
Cost Estimating

Experience:

15 years in cost planning and cost management for major infrastructure projects Job Type: Full-time

Position Overview Cost Planning Lead
- Transport Hubs in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a Transportation-Trucking-Railroad hiring opportunity for a senior cost planning professional who can lead cost strategy, estimating, commercial viability, value management, risk allowances, and cost assurance for complex multi-modal transport hub programs. The role supports major railway stations, metro interchanges, rail interfaces, bus terminals, park-and-ride facilities, roads, bridges, utilities, public realm, and urban mobility assets from early concept through detailed design and delivery.

Job Details Country:
Saudi Arabia City:
Riyadh Industry: Transportation-Trucking-Railroad Function:
Cost Estimating Salary:  Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality:
Any Job Type: Full-time Role Context The Cost Planning Lead
- Transport Hubs will provide senior commercial and cost planning leadership for complex infrastructure assets where early cost certainty, market intelligence, disciplined estimating, and value-for-money decisions are critical to successful program delivery. The position helps clients and project leadership make informed investment, scope, design, procurement, and funding decisions by building robust cost models, challenging cost drivers, leading value engineering, managing contingency strategies, and ensuring cost plans remain auditable, realistic, and aligned with project maturity.

• Set cost planning strategy, standards, methods, and governance procedures for transport hub projects and related infrastructure programs.
• Provide early strategic cost advice to clients, project teams, and internal stakeholders to support investment decisions, business cases, option selection, and funding discussions.
• Lead development of benchmark cost databases, cost intelligence, key performance indicators, and reference rates for transport hubs and urban mobility assets.
• Own preparation, review, validation, and sign-off of cost plans across concept, schematic, detailed design, IFC, procurement, and delivery stages.
• Develop order-of-magnitude estimates, elemental cost plans, detailed estimates, and bills-of-quantities-based cost models.
• Prepare cost plans for station and hub buildings, rail and metro infrastructure, rail systems, interchange facilities, roads, bridges, tunnels, utilities, public realm, parking, and associated developments.
• Ensure all cost models are based on auditable assumptions, current market data, productivity norms, design maturity, project risks, and delivery constraints.
• Drive cost-conscious design development with architecture, engineering, planning, operations, project controls, procurement, and delivery teams.
• Manage design-to-budget processes and challenge scope creep, cost escalation, inefficient design choices, and avoidable cost drivers.
• Facilitate value engineering and value management workshops to identify, evaluate, and prioritize savings while protecting safety, service quality, lifecycle value, and operational performance.
• Lead cost risk analysis, including quantitative risk assessments and Monte Carlo simulations where applicable.
• Define contingency strategies and allowances linked to risk registers, project maturity, scope definition, market exposure, and delivery complexity.
• Promote whole-life cost and total cost of ownership assessments, including operations, maintenance, renewals, energy use, asset replacement, and long-term performance.
• Maintain updated intelligence on construction market conditions, supply chain capacity, inflation, commodity movement, contractor appetite, labor trends, and key cost drivers.
• Support procurement strategy development, including package structuring, contracting models, procurement timing, commercial frameworks, and rail or hub works packaging.
• Review and challenge contractor bids, consultant submissions, pricing structures, rates, assumptions, exclusions, qualifications, and commercial risks.
• Establish cost planning governance frameworks, procedures, audit routines, reporting standards, and assurance checks for transport hub programs.
• Present cost plans, forecasts, cost movements, value-for-money analysis, and commercial recommendations to steering committees, executive leadership, clients, and external stakeholders.
• Lead internal reviews, independent cost checks, and audits to confirm accuracy, consistency, transparency, and compliance with client and corporate requirements.
• Act as the primary senior cost planning interface with clients, government entities, joint venture partners, consultants, and commercial stakeholders.
• Manage expectations around budgets,…