Senior Design Manager

Overview

In this Senior Design Manager role, you will provide strategic design leadership across a portfolio of complex construction projects from bid through completion. You will collaborate with clients, consultants and internal teams to drive design excellence, innovation and value while ensuring safety, compliance and alignment with programme and commercial objectives. The role supports major healthcare, education and commercial projects and helps build design capability within project teams. You will shape design strategies and governance to deliver high-quality, buildable solutions at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary and car allowance
• 26 days annual leave
• private medical insurance
• life assurance and pension matched
• flexible and agile working
• volunteering days

Responsibilities

• Provide senior design leadership across multiple projects and frameworks (2m–40m), coordinating consultants, subcontractors and project teams from bid to completion
• Lead development and implementation of design strategies that are innovative, buildable and compliant with programme and client objectives
• Drive design governance, risk management and value engineering to improve quality, sustainability and project performance
• Build and maintain relationships with clients and stakeholders, lead design workshops and facilitate decision-making throughout the lifecycle
• Support business growth via bid and pre-construction activities, including design planning, technical submissions and winning proposals

Key requirements

• Experienced design management professional with a proven track record leading multidisciplinary teams on complex construction projects in a main contractor environment
• Experience across healthcare, education, commercial and public sector settings in pre-construction and construction phases
• Strong knowledge of procurement routes (frameworks, negotiated, single-stage, two-stage) and ability to influence project strategy
• Excellent technical expertise across architectural, structural and building services; solid understanding of Building Regulations, CDM and sustainable design
• Outstanding leadership, communication and stakeholder management; ability to mentor Design Managers and project teams
• Strong commercial awareness, planning and problem-solving to manage risk and deliver outcomes in complex environments
• Degree or HNC in a construction-related discipline (desirable) or equivalent technical experience; CIOB membership (advantageous)
• Experience with Microsoft Office, document management platforms and planning software (Powerproject or TeamPlan)
• CSCS card and driving licence required

• leadership
• stakeholder management
• mentoring and development
• architectural, structural and building services expertise
• Building Regulations
• CDM

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