Senior Design Manager

Project and role

Design and project delivery

• Manage consultants, multidisciplinary teams, approvals, performance, compliance, and design quality across project phases.
• Oversee structural engineering design, technical reviews, interfaces, consultant performance, and design sign-off.
• Ensure deliverables meet briefs, specifications, regulations, sustainability standards, approval requirements, and project strategy.
• Manage design processes from concept through construction documentation, including fitness for purpose and Safety in Design.
• Coordinate stakeholders, design risks, milestones, procurement, operational priorities, and progress reporting.
• Manage design risk optioneering, value engineering, quality assurance, design changes, and cost tracking.
• Ensure design aligns with cost and business plans and operations requirements.
• Oversee work breakdown structures for design and engineering deliverables in line with procurement, construction staging, and project phasing.
• Champion safety, HSE compliance, wellbeing, inclusion, ethical governance, and a positive safety culture.
• Lead collaborative teams, stakeholder engagement, performance, innovation, and programme delivery.

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor's degree in sustainability or a related discipline; a master's degree is advantageous.
• 10–12+ years of sustainability management experience, including senior design leadership on large-scale commercial office or mixed-use developments.
• Experience leading design teams to deliver to programme while balancing cost, time, and quality.
• Expert knowledge of local and international design standards, codes, and regulations.
• Track record delivering BCO Grade A or investment-grade office towers or business parks from concept through handover.
• Strong command of design review processes, authority approvals, and international best practice in commercial office design.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary international consultant teams across architecture, structure, MEP, facade, and sustainability.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive presentation skills; experience in fast-paced giga-project delivery.
• Major programme experience managing multiple projects, competing priorities, and stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal English skills, including communicating with and influencing senior audiences.
• In-depth knowledge of enterprise-level digital design solutions and applications.
• KSA/Middle East experience is preferred; professional registration and PMP are advantageous.

Technical focus

• The design function includes systems engineering, BIM, GIS, innovation, value engineering, and structural design review.
• Relevant experience includes commercial office design, sustainability, multidisciplinary coordination, and design risk management.

Work arrangement

• The posting indicates a site-based role and says part-time, flexible, and hybrid options may be discussed if suitable.

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