Senior Manager, Projects & Design – South East Asia

HILTON INTERNATIONAL ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Hilton International Asia Pacific PTE LTD in Singapore is seeking a Senior Manager, Projects & Design – South East Asia to lead design, project management, and stakeholder collaboration across focus-service, full-service, and lifestyle hotels. You will manage timelines, coordinate owners and partners, ensure brand standards, and guide design direction from planning through opening.

Fluent English with Bahasa Indonesia is a plus; travel required; 10+ years of architecture/design and hospitality

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture or equivalent hospitality design/PM experience.
• Minimum 10 years in architecture design, hospitality design and project management.
• Excellent communication, presentation and public speaking skills.
• Ability to lead change and collaborate with Owners, Architects, and stakeholders.
• Strategic planning with ability to prioritize and implement plans to meet goals.
• Proficient with AI prompting using Copilot and ChatGPT for design data.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office; understands software applications.
• Ability to estimate project duration and foresee risks with stakeholders.
• Capable of training subordinates and sharing policies and procedures.
• Financial management skills; monitor expenses and funding priorities.
• Willingness to travel; English fluency, Bahasa Indonesia a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical services guiding planning and design phase of projects.
• Support Owner timelines and construction progress for seamless handover.
• Steward brand standards and recommendations to meet them.
• Oversee construction activities and report findings to Owners and Senior Director.
• Improve final product and prepare waiver requests as needed.
• Solve design problems with Owners, Architects, Consultants, and Hilton stakeholders.
• Implement efficient strategies to suit the organization.
• Plan meetings, site visits, and program deliverables with all parties.

Skills

Architectural degree / experience in L

Project management

Communication skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

AI prompting / Copilot / ChatGPT

MS Office

Time estimation

Team training

Financial management

Travel

English fluency

Bahasa Indonesia advantage

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture

Experience in lieu of degree

Tools

Microsoft Copilot

OpenAI ChatGPT

Job description

The SeniorManager, Projects & Design – South East Asia reports to the Senior Director, Projects & Design and is responsible for the management of project stakeholders, project timeline, design process, and the successful opening/conversion/renovation of the hotel project. As the point of contact between Owners and internal and external partners, you are a conduit of information, collaborator, and facilitator between Hilton and Ownership.

You will cover the South East Asia region and be responsible for focus-service, full-service, and lifestyle projects across all Hilton brands.

WHY YOU’LL BE A GREAT FIT

You have these minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture or experience in lieu of.

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in architecture design, hospitality design roles, and project management.

• Excellent communication, presentation, written, and public speaking skills.

• Ability to lead change, resolve issues, and ensure collaboration within teams and/or units; including maintaining the highest standards of ethical conduct and integrity.

• Ability to evaluate and find opportunities from a strategic perspective, develop, prioritize, and implement plans to meet the organization’s core strategic goals.

• Proficient skills in Artificial Intelligence (AI) prompting and a confident user of Microsoft Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT for generating design images, project schedules, and comparative data.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office products. Understanding the principles and practical application of the software.

• Ability to accurately estimate project duration and pre-empt potential pitfalls based on experience, scheduling analysis, and interaction with other stakeholders and ownership teams.

• Ability to assimilate new concepts and practices into the position and the department. To provide subordinates with effective on-the-job training, policies and procedures, departmental training topics, and professional development.

• Financial management and leadership skills, including the ability to monitor expenses against commitments, set priorities for funding, and develop annual financial goals.

• Ability to travel when required.

• Fluency in English with the added advantage of Bahasa Indonesia language abilities to cover the Indonesian markets, liaising with owners and local vendors.

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HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

Your role is important, and below are some of the fundamental job duties that make your work unique.

Project Management

• Provide technical services and guide all elements of the planning and design phase of the project.

• Supporting the Owner’s project timelines and construction progress to ensure a seamless hotel handover.

• Provide stewardship for the implementation of brand standards and any recommendations for meeting brand standards.

• Overseeing construction activities.

• Reporting to Owners, Stakeholders, and the Senior Director on findings, key dates, resolving project risks that will affect the hotel's success and opening, and conditional and final approvals.

• Improving the final product and preparing waiver requests.

• Assisting in the solving of design problems as they arise in collaboration with Owners, Architects, Consultants, and Hilton Stakeholders.

• Implement effective and efficient strategies to best suit the organization.

• Plan meetings, agendas, site visits, and program deliverables optimally, engaging/disengaging all parties promptly, allowing for accurate preparation and planning for the attendees.

• Plan meetings and travel in consideration of other Stakeholders and attendees' travel times and travel expense agreements for several trips.

Design Management & Development Assistance

• Provide Design Direction, Review and Approval of architectural planning, interior design, FF&E, art & accessories, landscape design, graphics and wayfinding designs to ensure they meet the Brand Design Narrative, Brand standards and Brand equity, under the direction of the Senior Director / Director

• Support Project Assessment, including Project Improvement Plan (PIP) inspections/reports to the Development team before application to facilitate project approval, under the direction of the Senior Director/ Director

• Contribute to country-specific addenda to global Brand standards for all Hilton brands