Design Manager

Poutrix; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm is seeking a Senior Design Manager to oversee large-scale design projects in London. The role involves guiding teams to ensure quality delivery while managing client relationships and facilitating project risks. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and experience within design management to drive optimal solutions and innovation in diverse multidisciplinary environments.

Qualifications

• Experience in Design/Design Management within a Client/Consultancy environment.
• Strong knowledge of BIM-led design and Autodesk tools.
• Ability to manage multi-disciplinary design projects effectively.

Responsibilities

• Guide design teams to meet client's scope considering budget and resources.
• Manage technical delivery and integration of design projects.
• Facilitate meetings and workshops to identify design and project risks.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Communication Management

Team Leadership

Integration Skills

Education

BA/BSc/BEng or MA/MSc/MEng in relevant discipline

Chartered or equivalent professional accreditation

Tools

BIM software

Autodesk suite of products

Programme software applications

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated toimproving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We are looking for a Senior Design Manager with experience in working on large, complex projects preferably in the Industrial, Manufacturing and/or Technology industries who can work at the business end of design. You will be part of new Design Management team within the Arcadis Places Design Practice. Both of which are on an exciting journey and looking to expand their resources.

A key function of the role is to guide the design teams (both internal and external) to meet the Client’s scope considering budget and resource requirements alongside required timescales. Ability to engage appropriately and positively with our Clients and their stakeholders is key and being able to work closely with the Arcadis Project Manager is essential.

You will need to facilitate meetings & workshops, identify design and project risks throughout the project lifecycle. Be able to confidently and coherently coordinate design activities with procurement, planners, environmental, construction & operations teams and provide a positive direction for the projects that you work on.

Role accountabilities:

• To work with the Arcadis Project Manager to achieve an optimal outcome for the client and Arcadis.
• To manage the technical delivery and integration of multi-disciplinary design projects, providing leadership to inspire direction and delivery excellence.
• To drive optimal and high-quality design decisions made through promoting a culture of collaboration, challenge, innovation, and creativity across the whole delivery team.
• Understand PM concepts, tools and techniques.
• To use interpersonal and influencing skills to support successful outcomes.
• Work in an environment of constantly changing priorities and managing these priorities to enable completion of projects whilst delivering the day-to-day tasks in the required time frames.
• Understand the challenges associated with multi-disciplined complex engineering problems and can plan, manage and implement solutions.

Qualifications & Experience:

• BA/BSc/BEng or MA/MSc/MEng or equivalent in a relevant discipline
• Chartered or equivalent professional accreditation
• Ideally previous Design/Design Management experience within a Client/Consultancy environment
• Knowledge and experience of BIM led design and Autodesk suite of products.
• Strong Focus on Integration, Stakeholder & Communication Management Skills
• Awareness of using programme software applications

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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