Job: Quantity Surveyor, Digby Morris

Digby Morris’ client is a leading international consultancy working on the real estate, infrastructure and construction sectors. They bring together professional skills, developed processes and information to successfully deliver all aspects of a capital project and its on-going operation, this allows them to advise on the initial investment through each stage of construction to occupation and day-to-day operations. The company has 40 wholly owned offices worldwide employing over 3,000 people with an annual Group turnover in excess of £200 million.

The Role

We have a number of requirements for Quantity Surveyors based in our client’s offices in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the UAE. These are predominantly client-facing roles so the candidates require excellent interpersonal skills as well as the skill to lead a high performance team delivering Cost Management services to clients. For this role the ideal candidate will have demonstrable management experience with a track record of developing people and will look forward to the challenge of developing a new property team within our client’s business. They will have the confidence and ability to deal with clients and internal managers at a senior level as well as the presence to generate early respect.

The company has small highly focussed teams of between 8 – 10 staff in client facing teams. Currently opportunities exist in the following teams.

• Commercial/Office
• Residential
• Hotel & Leisure

Responsibilities

• Building up and leading a team working with existing key clients, maintaining and strengthening the client relationships, using opportunities to cross-sell and manage a team delivering a wide range of services
• Managing the delivery of work won, both through hands-on involvement where appropriate and through management of staff within the team
• Coaching and mentoring team members, ensuring that staff and new hires are developed to support development of the business
• Developing our business: Networking and developing client relationships and alliances
• Supporting implementation of strategic initiatives from EC Harris Sector Management Internal commercial management within business unit including resource planning and fee agreements
• Strengthen our service delivery capability and championing innovative developments to add value to clients

Skills / Experience Required

Experience should ideally include working within a professional practice or consultancy environment and the candidate will be MRICS/FRICS qualified. In order for the person to be successful in this role they will need to possess the following personal attributes:

Highly presentable with the ability to gain trust and respect
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Experience of managing people and delivering complex projects
• High degree of integrity and a sense of humour
• Thinks strategically, asks questions, listens to answers, defines problems and implements change
• A perceptive individual who, through a natural diplomacy, can influence people in a changing environment
• A commercially aware and financially astute individual who can identify the key issues with the ability to adopt both a professional and commercial approach
• A team builder who can develop and maintain good relationships and gain the confidence of other professionals both within the company and outside
• Assist in providing best practice and continuous improvement within delivery teams

Benefits

• A competitive salary for the right candidate
• Accommodation allowance
• Transportation allowance
• 30 calendar days annual leave
• Medical and life insurance cover
• Company gratuity scheme
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Annual return airfare to point of origin