Senior Design Manager

AECOM; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Disability Confident Employer

Job summary

AECOM is seeking a senior Design Management professional to lead the Design Management Team across the UK and internationally. The role includes mentoring, process development, and ensuring quality and contractual compliance across projects in a hybrid work setting.

You will coordinate with leaders, drive business planning, and manage sub-consultants, while ensuring financial controls and high standards across the DM function.

Qualifications

• Understanding of the design process.
• Project and design programming skills.
• Experience in development and implementation of design management tools and procedures.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Commercial awareness of projects.
• Construction knowledge/experience.
• Proficiency in MS Project/Excel/InDesign.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Design Management Team and related duties.
• Oversee sub-consultants and contractual administration.
• Establish and implement Design Management procedures and governance.
• Support and mentor junior DM team members.
• Contribute to performance management and project delivery.

Skills

Design process understanding

Project programming

DM tools procedures

Communication skills

Commercial awareness

Construction knowledge

MS Project / Excel / InDesign

Tools

MS Project

Excel

InDesign

Job description

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

tart here. Grow here.

Here’s what you’ll do:

Managing the Design Management Team

• Work closely with the team Leadership and assist in the management of the Design Management team.
• Support the team Leadership in their roles and undertake duties such as business development, team performance reviews etc. as required.
• Gain an understanding of the Team leader’s roles and responsibilities and when required, supplement the Team Leaders in their absence
• Management of AECOM financial process and invoicing.
• Contribute to the DM business planning as required and continuously review business planning targets to monitor progress of the team.
• Lead Design Management projects across the UK and Internationally.
• Assist in the development of the Design Management team members through mentoring, training and reviews.
• Review of work outputs from Design Management team prior to issue to ensure quality and compliance with contractual obligations.

Managing Sub-consultants

• Prepare responsibility matrix to identify sub-consultant responsibility for each area of scope.
• Draft and distribute sub-consultant back-to-back contracts so that all scope is accounted for.
• Manage updates to sub-consultant contracts and prepare final documents.
• Prepare and update cash flow projections.
• Establish procedures for invoice submission for sub-consultants and monitor.
• Track and report on the progress of all sub-consultant invoices and prepare a monthly Financial Report.

Establishment and Implementation of Design Management Procedures including:-

• Roles and Responsibilities/Scope Delineation
• Preparing design programmes, monitoring and reporting progress
• Managing Delievrables/outputs
• Managing Design Quality
• Managing Design Budgets/Change
• Managing Approvals
• Organising Project Meetings & Design Workshops
• Managing Design Coordination

Assist in the Management of the Design Management Team

• Achieve AECOM PM accreditation, take active role in management of design projects in accordance with AECOM financial systems and processes.
• Lead/Support Design Management projects across the UK and Internationally as appropriate.
• Assist in the development of junior Design Management team members through mentoring, training and reviews.
• Review work outputs from junior Design Management team members prior to issue to ensure quality and compliance with contractual obligations.
• Support the Design Management team Leadership as required.

Performance Management

• It is expected that the jobholder will contribute and participate positively in the Performance Review process, which underpins the firms approach to developing all staff. This will include taking ownership of agreed actions, including pursuing any training opportunities identified. Similarly, specific objectives will be agreed with the jobholder as part of the performance review process and they should assume responsibility for the delivery of these.
• The firm has a world class reputation built upon a powerful brand which reflects its core values of integrity, innovation and collaboration. Jobholders should demonstrate an empathy with these values and seek to reflect them in undertaking their role.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Understanding of the design process.
• Project and design programming skills.
• Experience in development and implementation of design management tools and procedures.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Commercial awareness of projects.
• Construction knowledge/experience.
• Proficiency in MS Project/Excel/InDesign.

Additional Information

To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry‑leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long‑term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: J10159683

Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Program & Project Management

Work Location Model: Hybrid