Overview
Senior Cost Control Manager Jobs in Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia at Chestertons MENA
Title: Senior Cost Control Manager
Company: Chestertons MENA
Location: Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
📢 We’re hiring at Chestertons Saudi Arabia!
We are currently looking for experienced professionals to join our Building Consultancy & Project Management team in Riyadh:
🔹 Senior Cost Control Manager
If you have the relevant experience and are looking for your next challenge, we’d love to hear from you.
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Key Requirements
- Prepare realistic preliminary budgets, cost plans, benchmark studies, and financial feasibility
- evaluations during early project stages.
- Develop project budgets based on current market conditions, contractor pricing trends,
- procurement strategies, and construction methodologies.
- Review design developments and assess their financial impact on overall project budgets and
- delivery strategies.
- Develop and maintain project cost reports, cashflow forecasts, cost trackers, and commercial
- reporting systems across multiple projects.
- Monitor project expenditures, commitments, variations, claims, and forecast final project costs
- against approved budgets.
- Support tendering activities including BOQ reviews, commercial comparisons, tender analysis, and
- contractor evaluations.
- Challenge unrealistic consultant estimates and provide commercially grounded recommendations
- to management teams.
- Identify cost risks proactively and support value engineering initiatives without compromising
- project quality or operational objectives.
- Benchmark project costs against comparable hospitality, fit-out, and mixed-use developments
- within the Saudi market.
- Coordinate closely with Design Managers, Project Managers, planners, consultants, contractors,
- and procurement teams to maintain alignment between scope, cost, and programme.
- Prepare executive-level financial reports, dashboards, and cost summaries for management and
- Board presentations.
- Review contractor payment applications, variation submissions, and commercial proposals where
- required.
- Support the establishment of cost control procedures, governance systems, and reporting standards
- across all projects.
- Support project close-out activities including final account reviews, commercial reconciliation, and
- final cost reporting.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, Commercial
- Management, or related field.
- Degree / qualification in Quantity Surveying
- Approximately 10–18 years of experience in cost management, commercial management, project
- controls, or construction financial management roles.
- Proven experience in hospitality, fit-out, commercial, mixed-use, or high-end construction projects.
- Strong knowledge of Saudi construction market pricing, contractor costing structures, procurement
- methods, and commercial practices.
- Strong understanding of budgeting, cost forecasting, BOQs, tendering, procurement, variations, and
- commercial reporting.
- Good understanding of construction methodologies, fit-out systems, MEP coordination, and project
- delivery processes.
- Experience reviewing IFC packages, tender documentation, contracts, and project specifications.
- Strong analytical, reporting, and financial presentation skills.
- Experience working in fast-track project environments with multiple concurrent projects.
- GCC experience is preferred.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, reporting tools, and cost management systems.
Preferred Profile
- Commercially strong professional with deep understanding of real market pricing and construction
- delivery dynamics.
- Capable of providing realistic budget visibility and strategic financial recommendations to
- management teams.
- Strong coordination skills between technical, commercial, procurement, and operational stakeholders.
- Detail-oriented with strong reporting, forecasting, and analytical capabilities.
- Comfortable operating in client-side, PMC, or multi-project management environments.