Design Manager

Galliford Try Plc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Generous holiday entitlement

Cycle to Work scheme

Private medical scheme options

Pension plan

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Galliford Try Building London Southeast is seeking a Design Manager in London. You will manage the entire design process, ensuring solutions meet customer requirements and framework deliverables across commercial, residential and mixed-use schemes.

You will lead consultants, identify risks and pursue value‑engineering to protect gross profit, coordinate CDP packages, assess CDM 2015 obligations, and ensure design outputs align with RIBA stages within programme constraints using the CDE.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering design on time, to budget and to quality standards.
• Experience in new build and refurbishment across commercial, residential, mixed-use, hotel, city centre developments.
• Experience managing designers and other consultants.

Responsibilities

• Manage the entire design process, ensuring solutions meet or exceed customers' requirements and framework deliverables.
• Identify contractual, financial, technical and operational risks and pursue value-engineering opportunities to minimise risk and maximise gross profit while achieving customer satisfaction.
• Support the safe, on-time and quality delivery of the contract pipeline.
• Lead the appointment of design and associated consultants, ensuring contractual requirements are captured and deliverables clearly defined using tools such as the IRS, MIDP/Design Responsibility Matrix, Deliverables and Scope of Services.
• Review and appraise fee proposals from consultants; manage and monitor consultant performance, encouraging a collaborative approach to deliver robust, coordinated designs on time and to budget.
• Support and manage the development of CDP packages to ensure compliance and full coordination.
• Assess consultants in line with CDM 2015 requirements, ensuring all obligations are met and designs fully consider health, safety and buildability.
• Own all design processes and information flow on Design and Build and heavily CDP contracts, ensuring alignment of design outputs to relevant RIBA stages and meeting employer requirements within agreed programme constraints using the CDE.

Skills

Design management

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Project leadership

CDM 2015 knowledge

Time management

Education

HNC/HND/Degree in construction or design

Member of CIOB/RIBA/RICS

Tools

CDE

Job description

Design Manager - London - Galliford Try Building London Southeast & Commercial Responsibilities

• Manage the entire design process, ensuring solutions meet or exceed customers' requirements and framework deliverables.
• Identify contractual, financial, technical and operational risks and pursue value-engineering opportunities to minimise risk and maximise gross profit while achieving customer satisfaction.
• Support the safe, on-time and quality delivery of the contract pipeline.
• Lead the appointment of design and associated consultants, ensuring contractual requirements are captured and deliverables clearly defined using tools such as the IRS, MIDP/Design Responsibility Matrix, Deliverables and Scope of Services.
• Review and appraise fee proposals from consultants; manage and monitor consultant performance, encouraging a collaborative approach to deliver robust, coordinated designs on time and to budget.
• Support and manage the development of CDP packages to ensure compliance and full coordination.
• Assess consultants in line with CDM 2015 requirements, ensuring all obligations are met and designs fully consider health, safety and buildability.
• Own all design processes and information flow on Design and Build and heavily CDP contracts, ensuring alignment of design outputs to relevant RIBA stages and meeting employer requirements within agreed programme constraints using the CDE.

Qualifications & Experience

• Experience in new build and refurbishment across commercial, residential, mixed-use, hotel, city centre developments, traditional and D&B contracts and all building elements including sub-structure, frame, envelope, internal trades and MMC.
• Experience managing designers and other consultants.
• Proven ability to deliver design on time, to budget and to quality standards with high customer satisfaction.
• Computer literate and commercially astute.
• Strong time-management and multi-tasking skills.
• Decision-making within authority and leadership ability within a team.
• Continuous improvement mindset with commitment to customer satisfaction.
• Construction or design-related HNC/HND/Degree (required).
• Member of a professional body (CIOB, RIBA, RICS) (required).
• Values alignment with Excellence, Passion, Integrity and Collaboration.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with performance-linked rewards.
• Generous holiday entitlement increasing with service and the option to purchase additional days.
• Wide range of corporate discounts and a Cycle to Work scheme.
• Comprehensive pension plan and a Save-as-You-Earn share purchase scheme.
• Private medical scheme options for salaried employees and a 24/7 employee assistance programme.
• Paid annual membership to a recognised professional association relevant to the role.

Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, reduced hours or flexibly. We are a Disability Confidence employer and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a long-term health condition or disability that meets the essential criteria for the advertised position. Please contact the Resourcing Partner if you believe this applies to you.