Senior Manager - Cost Planning - Residential

Qiddiya Investment Company

Qiddiya is building a new city focused on entertainment, sport and culture. The projects are ambitious, complex and fast moving. In this role you will help ensure the numbers behind those projects are clear, credible and aligned with design from the earliest stages.

You ll work closely with development teams, design consultants and external cost managers to ensure design-to-budget thinking is embedded from day one.

WHAT YOU LL DO

• Lead the cost planning position across residential projects and own the credibility of the numbers being presented to the business.
• Manage external cost consultants delivering cost plans and ensure outputs align with Qiddiya s cost planning methodology and technical guidelines.
• Interrogate cost plans in detail, challenge assumptions and ensure advice is robust, consistent and commercially realistic.
• Ensure budgets actively guide design decisions rather than react to them.
• Track design development and understand the cost impact of change.
• Use benchmarking and historical data to test and validate cost positions.
• Produce clear cost summaries to support internal decision making and Stage Gate approvals.
• Communicate cost positions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.