Design Manager

Overview

In this Design Manager role you guide high‑specification fit‑out interiors from pre‑construction through to handover, ensuring design intent is preserved while coordinating complex interfaces. You will lead cross‑disciplinary collaboration with clients, architects and subcontractors to deliver buildable, quality spaces on fast timelines. The role centers on protecting design vision, resolving clashes early, and driving value, programme and customer experience. This position offers autonomy to shape design quality and project outcomes within a supportive team.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary and car allowance
• 26 days annual leave (+3 via buy/sell)
• Long service leave at 3,7,10 years
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance and pension matched up to 8%
• Flexible and agile working

Responsibilities

• Lead the design management process across tender, pre-construction, design, construction, commissioning and handover on fast-paced fit‑out projects
• Coordinate interiors, MEP, joinery, ceilings, partitions, finishes, furniture, AV/IT and other subcontractor designs, resolving interfaces before installation
• Protect the design vision while challenging details for buildability, value, programme and compliance
• Drive design workshops, reviews and early coordination to close information gaps and clashes, especially with live base-build environments
• Own design information flow, approvals, trackers, samples, benchmarks and technical submissions to ensure timely, accurate site information and quality expectations

Key requirements

• Proven design management experience on commercial fit-out or high-spec interiors, ideally Cat B on fast-track programmes
• Strong knowledge of interior construction, finishes and building services interfaces; ability to interrogate drawings and translate design intent into buildable solutions
• Experience coordinating architects, consultants and specialist subcontractors across packages (partitions, ceilings, joinery, doors, flooring, lighting, MEP, AV/IT, furniture) with attention to detail
• Confident management of design information and approvals (design release schedules, RFIs, change control, samples, mock-ups) ; BIM/model-based design review is advantageous
• Excellent client-facing, stakeholder and problem-solving skills; capable of chairing design workshops and balancing design quality, cost, programme, compliance and buildability
• Qualification in construction, архитектural, engineering or design is desirable; professional membership (e.g., CIOB) advantageous
• Client-facing
• Problem-solving
• Stakeholder management
• Interior construction knowledge
• Buildability and value engineering
• Coordination across packages (interiors, MEP, joinery, ceilings)

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