Project Manager, Interior Design

Surbana Jurong Group; Singapore; In loco; SGD 90.000 - 120.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

SAA is seeking an experienced Interior Design Project Manager to lead multiple interior design projects across hospitality, retail, and workplaces from concept to handover. You will coordinate design, FF&E, branding, and documentation, ensuring timely delivery, manage budgets, and mentor coordinators.

Strong client communication and risk mitigation are essential. You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, ensure design intent, quality standards, and buildability, and maintain studio

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design, Interior Architecture, Architecture, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• At least 8 years of professional experience in interior design project management, interior fit-out, construction management, architecture, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience delivering medium to large-scale projects in hospitality, retail, workplace, public space, or comparable sectors.
• Strong understanding of the full project lifecycle: briefing, concept development, documentation, tendering, procurement, construction, installation, and handover.
• Proven ability to manage budgets, schedules, procurement, contractor coordination, variations, and project risks.
• Experience reviewing and coordinating construction documents, FF&E specifications, millwork packages, submittals, shop drawings, and site installations.
• Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills, with confidence presenting to clients and senior stakeholders.
• Highly organized, commercially aware, solution-oriented, and able to manage competing priorities across multiple projects.
• Proficiency in project management tools and Microsoft Office; familiarity with AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp, Adobe Creative Suite, and project management or procurement platforms is advantageous.
• Experience in Singapore or the broader Asia-Pacific region is desirable, with familiarity in local authority submissions, procurement practices, and contractor coordination.

Mansioni

• Lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of multiple interior design projects across hospitality, retail, workplace, public space, or mixed-use sectors.
• Develop and maintain project work plans, milestones, schedules, resource allocations, and delivery timelines from concept stage through construction completion.
• Coordinate project activities across internal design, FF&E, branding, and documentation teams, ensuring clear ownership of deliverables and deadlines.
• Identify risks, constraints, dependencies, and potential delays early; develop and implement practical mitigation plans.
• Support project mobilization, design development, tendering, procurement, construction, installation, snagging, and closeout.
• Develop, monitor, and control project budgets, including design fees, FF&E, materials, consultant fees, procurement, logistics, and contingency.
• Prepare and maintain cost plans, procurement trackers, purchase orders, budget forecasts, and financial reporting.
• Obtain, evaluate, and negotiate quotations from suppliers, manufacturers, contractors, and specialist vendors.
• Manage FF&E procurement, lead times, delivery schedules, storage, installation sequencing, and site logistics.
• Assess scope changes, variations, and design revisions for cost, schedule, and contractual impact; obtain necessary approvals before proceeding.
• Monitor project profitability, cash flow, invoicing, and financial performance in collaboration with senior leadership.
• Represent the studio professionally in presentations, site meetings, and stakeholder discussions.

Conoscenze

Communication skills

Leadership

Project management

Budget management

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design

Strumenti

AutoCAD

Revit

SketchUp

Adobe Creative Suite

Descrizione del lavoro

A career at SAA gives you the opportunity to be part of a team that makes a real difference to people’s lives; creating places and spaces that form meaningful experiences in the way people connect with their communities. From the moment of ideation to the exhilaration of creation, you will be amongst passionate and talented colleagues from around the globe, working together to make a mark in the evolution of our urban societies. At SAA, we continually strive to enrich the greatest endeavour of all – human life – the quality of which all good designs are benchmarked against. And in this endeavour, we share with you the opportunity to give true meaning to the work that sustains it. SAA. Building Dreams, Enriching Lives.

Key Responsibilities

Project Planning & Delivery

Lead the planning, coordination, and delivery of multiple interior design projects across hospitality, retail, workplace, public space, or mixed-use sectors. Develop and maintain project work plans, milestones, schedules, resource allocations, and delivery timelines from concept stage through construction completion. Coordinate project activities across internal design, FF&E, branding, and documentation teams, ensuring clear ownership of deliverables and deadlines. Identify risks, constraints, dependencies, and potential delays early; develop and implement practical mitigation plans. Support project mobilization, design development, tendering, procurement, construction, installation, snagging, and closeout.

Budget, Procurement & Commercial Control

Develop, monitor, and control project budgets, including design fees, FF&E, materials, consultant fees, procurement, logistics, and contingency. Prepare and maintain cost plans, procurement trackers, purchase orders, budget forecasts, and financial reporting. Obtain, evaluate, and negotiate quotations from suppliers, manufacturers, contractors, and specialist vendors. Manage FF&E procurement, lead times, delivery schedules, storage, installation sequencing, and site logistics. Assess scope changes, variations, and design revisions for cost, schedule, and contractual impact; obtain necessary approvals before proceeding. Monitor project profitability, cash flow, invoicing, and financial performance in collaboration with senior leadership.

Client & Stakeholder Management

Serve as a primary day-to-day point of contact for clients, ensuring clear, timely, and professional communication. Lead internal coordination meetings, client meetings, progress updates, design reviews, and project reporting. Manage expectations around scope, budget, programme, approvals, and decision-making. Build trusted relationships with clients, architects, consultants, contractors, suppliers, and end users. Represent the studio professionally in presentations, site meetings, and stakeholder discussions.

Design Coordination & Technical Execution

Coordinate closely with the Design Director and design team to ensure that creative intent, quality standards, and technical requirements are maintained throughout delivery. Review drawings, specifications, FF&E schedules, finish schedules, millwork details, submittals, shop drawings, samples, and mock-ups. Coordinate with architects, MEP consultants, structural consultants, lighting designers, acousticians, AV/IT consultants, and specialist vendors. Resolve design, coordination, and technical issues proactively, balancing aesthetic intent, buildability, cost, programme, and compliance. Conduct site visits, inspect installed work, review progress against drawings and specifications, and manage RFI and defect resolution. Ensure that materials, workmanship, finishes, and installations meet the approved design intent and project quality standards.

Team Leadership & Studio Standards

Provide clear direction, delegation, and day-to-day support to project coordinators, junior designers, and project team members. Mentor team members on project management processes, documentation, coordination, client communication, and problem-solving. Foster a collaborative, accountable, and high-performance working environment. Uphold and improve studio standards for project documentation, templates, reporting, quality control, and knowledge sharing. Maintain awareness of current materials, products, construction methods, codes, regulations, and sustainability practices relevant to interior projects.

Pre-requisites and Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design, Interior Architecture, Architecture, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• At least 8 years of professional experience in interior design project management, interior fit-out, construction management, architecture, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated experience delivering medium to large-scale projects in hospitality, retail, workplace, public space, or comparable sectors.
• Strong understanding of the full project lifecycle: briefing, concept development, documentation, tendering, procurement, construction, installation, and handover.
• Proven ability to manage budgets, schedules, procurement, contractor coordination, variations, and project risks.
• Experience reviewing and coordinating construction documents, FF&E specifications, millwork packages, submittals, shop drawings, and site installations.
• Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills, with confidence presenting to clients and senior stakeholders.
• Highly organized, commercially aware, solution-oriented, and able to manage competing priorities across multiple projects.
• Proficiency in project management tools and Microsoft Office; familiarity with AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp, Adobe Creative Suite, and project management or procurement platforms is advantageous.
• Experience in Singapore or the broader Asia-Pacific region is desirable, with familiarity in local authority submissions, procurement practices, and contractor coordination.

Real Impact, Made Together

SAA is a member of the Surbana Jurong (SJ) Group, a diverse and collaborative collective of problem solvers for the built environment, continually reimagining ways to create a smart and sustainable future. As one of SJ’s 10 member companies, SAA is part of a global network of professionals in more than 120 offices in over 40 countries.

Guided by our core values of being Urbanistic, Humanistic, and Optimistic, our practice delivers projects that engage seamlessly with the built environment—creating meaningful relationships by placing people, their culture, and their communities at the centre of our designs. Over the last decade, our focus on surpassing expectations in design and service delivery has allowed us to create and deliver works diverse in scale, typology and complexity. Today, our consultancy has grown to include Master and Urban Planning, Interior Design, and Medical Planning; strengthening our vision to positively shape the world around us.

As a member of the Surbana Jurong (SJ) Group, SAA has access to the increased resources and wider scale of SJ’s global platform and infrastructure, heightening our ability to provide clients and partners greater value in our design and service offerings.