Job summary
Senior Manager, Cost Planning at Qiddiya Investment Company in Riyadh. Provides cost planning support across business units and projects, reviews consultant outputs, coordinates Stage Gate cost deliverables, and helps maintain evidence-based project cost records.
Key responsibilities
- Coordinate cost planning activities for assigned projects and workstreams
- Implement cost planning guidelines, templates, trackers and governance
- Review and comment on consultant cost plans, assumptions and risk allowances
- Maintain current cost planning records and trackers
- Support Stage Gate reviews for cost planning readiness and compliance
- Coordinate with business units, design, commercial, finance and consultants
- Support early-stage feasibility and pre-concept cost advice
- Track scope and cost movements and escalate material issues
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering or related field
- Minimum 12 years’ experience in cost planning, QS, estimating or cost management
- Experience reviewing consultant-produced cost plans across design stages
- Knowledge of cost planning governance, Stage Gate and benchmarking
- Proficiency with cost planning software and digital tools; CostX preferred
- Familiarity with measurement standards (RICS, NRM, etc.) preferred
- Progress towards professional membership (RICS/AIQS) preferred
- GCC or KSA project experience preferred
Skills
Cost planningQuantity surveyingBenchmarkingCost reconciliationRisk & contingency managementDesign-to-budgetStage Gate processesCostXStakeholder managementReporting & dashboards
Source: Workable. Last checked as open: 13 Nov 2026. You apply directly with the employer.
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