Senior Design Manager - Saudi National

The project

Responsibilities

• Lead design management across concurrent building and infrastructure packages and coordinate multidisciplinary consultants through all design and construction stages.
• Ensure designs are coordinated, buildable, compliant, and aligned with requirements; challenge proposals to improve quality, function, programme, and value.
• Facilitate design workshops, technical reviews, and stakeholder meetings; track deliverables and milestones.
• Manage design risks, issues, interfaces, change control, and scope amendments; coordinate with project, commercial, procurement, construction, and client teams.
• Review consultant deliverables, technical submissions, specifications, and reports; support technical evaluations of consultants and contractors.
• Lead and mentor junior team members and ensure compliance with codes, standards, governance, and industry practices.

Experience and qualifications

• Degree in architecture or a related discipline.
• Extensive design-management experience within a PMC, consultancy, developer, or client organisation.
• Experience delivering high-end residential, hospitality, mixed-use, estate, or landmark developments.
• Strong understanding of multidisciplinary building design, infrastructure interfaces, international design consultants, and specialist designers.
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills; able to lead teams in challenging, fast-paced environments.
• Knowledge of design governance, design assurance, and quality management.
• Major Middle East project experience is highly desirable; professional membership such as RIBA, CIOB, PMI, ICE, IStructE, or equivalent is preferred.
• Relevant experience on high-value PMC projects or programmes is required for immigration and client approval.

Working options

• The employer is open to discussing part-time, flexible, and hybrid options if suitable for the role; no specific working arrangement is confirmed.

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