Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Your new company
One of the UK's leading contractors operating across a number of sectors including Infrastructure and Build
Your new role
Senior Design Manager required to join the construction team, based out of Welwyn Garden City. As Senior Design Manager, you will lead the design process from bid through delivery, ensuring coordinated, innovative and commercially aligned solutions.
Your responsibilities will include:
Design leadership – Establishing and managing the project design resource, ensuring the right expertise is in place throughout the project lifecycle.
End-to-end design management – Providing a comprehensive, sustainable design service for customers, partners and suppliers.
RIBA stage coordination – Overseeing the full design process, challenging briefs, driving innovation and embedding continuous improvement.
Design governance – Ensuring compliance with internal procedures at bid and delivery stages.
Design strategy – Shaping the design approach and developing clear scopes of service for each project stage.
Programme management – Leading design reviews, coordination meetings and ensuring a fully integrated design strategy.
Commercial alignment – Ensuring design solutions meet construction requirements and align with cost plan allowances.
What you'll need to succeed
- Strong experience within the main contracting sector, ideally with exposure to Healthcare and Education projects.
- A solid understanding of construction design techniques.
- HNC/HND in Design Management or a related commercial discipline, and/or CIOB membership.
- Experience working on both single-stage and two-stage tenders.
What you need to do now
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