Design Manager - Arch

Job description

What you'll be doing

• Lead and manage multidisciplinary design teams, ensuring alignment across architectural, structural, MEP, infrastructure, and specialist disciplines.
• Oversee design development and design review from concept through detailed design and IFC.
• Ensure consistency with the client brief, design intent, project objectives, and applicable regulations.
• Coordinate design submissions, responses to comments, and revisions from client, authority, and third-party reviews.
• Act as the central point of contact for design interfaces and technical integration.
• Manage sub-consultants and ensure timely, high-quality deliverables aligned with scope and programme.
• Chair design coordination meetings and workshops, issuing actions and follow-ups.
• Support programme tracking, progress reporting, and risk identification.
• Ensure design documentation meets consultancy QA/QC procedures and project quality requirements.
• Maintain structured records of design decisions, approvals, and technical correspondence.

Required skills and qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture or a related discipline.
• At least 10 years of professional experience in design coordination, design management, or similar roles.
• Experience working within an engineering or multidisciplinary consultancy environment.
• Strong understanding of design development workflows and approval processes.
• Experience coordinating projects in Saudi Arabia or the Middle East is strongly preferred.

Desired skills

• Ability to interpret and coordinate technical design information across disciplines; knowledge of local authority requirements, codes, and regulatory frameworks.
• Experience managing complex design interfaces and resolving coordination issues; strong planning, reporting, and document-control skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, leadership and coordination capability, and a detail-oriented, proactive approach to problem solving.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and priorities under tight deadlines in structured, programme-driven consultancy environments.