Design Manager - Sports Adventure
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Overview The Design Manager Sports is responsible for leading and managing the design of sports and leisure facilities across projects, ensuring delivery of high.
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Job Description Overview
The Design Manager Sports is responsible for leading and managing the design of sports and leisure facilities across projects, ensuring delivery of high-quality, compliant, and technically coordinated solutions.
This role combines design management expertise with specialized knowledge of sports venues (stadiums, training facilities, community sports complexes) within a Project Management Consultancy (PMC) environment.
The role focuses on design governance, coordination, and technical assurance, acting as the client s representative to ensure that sports facility designs meet international standards, operational requirements, and legacy objectives.
Your Role
- Lead and manage design activities for sports facilities from concept through detailed design and construction stages
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams (architecture, structure, MEP, sports specialists, venue planners, and consultants)
- Review and validate design deliverables to ensure compliance with project requirements, international standards, and best practices
- Establish and monitor the design programme aligned with overall project milestones
- Lead design reviews, workshops, and coordination meetings
- Provide expert input on sports facility planning and design
- Ensure compliance with international sports standards (e.g., FIFA, IOC, World Athletics, etc.)
- Review field/court layouts, spectator sightlines, circulation, and operational functionality
- Ensure integration of athlete facilities, media zones, VIP areas, and back-of-house operations
- Validate materials, surfaces, lighting, acoustics, and equipment specifications
- Promote sustainable and legacy-driven sports design solutions
- Act as the key interface between client, operators, sports consultants, and design teams
- Coordinate with governing bodies and authorities to secure approvals and certifications
- Facilitate stakeholder alignment on operational and functional requirements
- Participate in client presentations and technical decision-making forums
- Monitor design progress against budget and schedule
- Assess impact of design changes on project cost, programme, and functionality
- Support value engineering initiatives specific to sports infrastructure
- Identify and mitigate risks related to design coordination, compliance, and constructability
- Provide technical design support during construction, including review of shop drawings and RFIs
- Ensure the design intent for sports facilities is maintained on site
- Coordinate with site supervision teams and contractors for issue resolution
- Support testing, commissioning, and handover of sports facilities
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