Design Manager

Kenna Recruitment Ltd; City Of London; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent contractor in the commercial refurbishment sector is seeking a Design Manager to lead their design team and manage a diverse and exciting project pipeline in Central London. This role offers significant career growth opportunities within a newly formed team, emphasizing collaboration and strategic design management across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Bring a degree qualification.
• Demonstrate strong written and oral communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end design delivery process, coordinating with various stakeholders.
• Ensure regular reporting of progress to senior management.
• Develop and maintain relationships with design vendors.

Skills

Communication

Education

Degree Educated

Job description

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Design Manager

Permanent, Full-time

Location: City of London

Salary: Up to £75,000 + Package

I am currently working with a well established contractor who specialise in the interior fitting out and refurbishment of commercial premises. They have recently hired a new Head of Design who is tasked with shaping a new team. This HoD is an extremely experienced and knowledgeable, and on top of this, is a lovely person and is great to work with. He has already helped them / won them several new projects!

They are recruiting for a Design Manager to help with an exciting and vast pipeline of work within Central London. Majority of their work is between £5m - £30m and you would potentially be covering two sites at once.

This role would also include tendering, work winning, pitching, pack reviewing, and more. You do not need to have direct experience with this, but keen to be involved in these areas.

This is an excellent opportunity for career growth, as you would be joining the start of a newly formed team. Their are big plans in place to expand this team further and therefore would give you the chance to move up the ladder quickly or at the pace you would desire.

Their office is based in Central London

Responsibilities:

• End to end design delivery process starting from brief definition and internal alignment with various stakeholders, to appointment, management and review of external design vendors that carry out design work for projects
• Ensure regular reporting of progress against agreed plans to senior members of Design and Engineering and the associated project managers.
• Advise and ensure corrective action taken promptly to address any design issues
• Ensure quality and value for money received through third party appointments
• Help development of new tools, processes, and procedures for best practice design management
• Develop and manage long term relationships with key third party design and equipment vendors

What is needed from you:

• Degree Educated
• Good written and oral communication skills in English.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Design

• Industries

  Construction

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