Senior Design Team Lead – Kitchen & Contract Projects

Simon Acres Group; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Senior leadership role

Mon-Fri

Permanent position

Career development

Supportive environment

Job summary

KBB Recruitment are representing a well-established kitchen and contract design organisation seeking a Design Team Manager to lead a large design function across contract kitchen design and public sector projects. Based in Lincolnshire or Yorkshire & the Humber, you will drive performance and mentorship for a 20+ strong team.

You will oversee delivery, quality and deadlines while collaborating with clients, project teams and senior management to grow the business.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing a sizeable design team, ideally 20+ people.
• Previous experience within kitchen design, interiors, KBB, contract design, construction or a related design environment.
• Strong understanding of contract and/or public sector design projects would be highly advantageous.
• Excellent leadership and people-management skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple teams, projects and competing priorities.
• Strong organisational and workload-management skills.
• Confident managing performance, providing feedback and developing team members.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Commercially aware with a strong understanding of project deadlines and operational requirements.
• Ability to work under pressure while maintaining high standards of quality and service.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• A proactive and supportive management style with the ability to motivate and inspire a large team.
• Must be based within Lincolnshire or the Yorkshire & the Humber region, with the ability to travel across the region as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of designers and design professionals.
• Oversee designers working across contract kitchen design, public sector projects and specialist design functions.
• Manage team performance, productivity, workloads and resource allocation.
• Provide leadership, mentoring and ongoing development to designers.
• Set clear objectives and monitor individual and team performance against agreed KPIs.
• Ensure designs are delivered accurately, efficiently and within agreed deadlines.
• Review design quality and ensure company standards and processes are consistently followed.
• Identify training and development requirements across the design team.
• Support recruitment, onboarding and development of new designers where required.
• Manage workloads across multiple projects and ensure resources are allocated effectively.
• Act as a senior point of escalation for design-related issues and challenges.
• Work closely with senior management, project management and other internal departments.
• Drive continuous improvement across design processes, systems and procedures.
• Encourage a positive, collaborative and high-performing team culture.
• Monitor capacity and future resource requirements to support business growth.
• Ensure excellent communication between the design team, clients, contractors and internal stakeholders.

Skills

Team leadership

Design management

Contract design

Public sector design

Stakeholder management

Communication

Project prioritization

Performance management

Job description

KBB Recruitment are representing a well-established kitchen and contract design organisation seeking a Design Team Manager to lead a large design function across contract kitchen design and public sector projects. Based in Lincolnshire or Yorkshire & the Humber, you will drive performance and mentorship for a 20+ strong team.

You will oversee delivery, quality and deadlines while collaborating with clients, project teams and senior management to grow the business.