Executive Director - Design Excellence - 20013062 CM5
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About the Role
Lead Design Excellence for hospitality assets, ensuring high-quality design, sustainability, and alignment with strategic vision while mentoring teams and managing consultants.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the Design Excellence function across creative disciplines, design standards, BIM and project embedded design management resources
- Curate creative design responses integrating Qiddiya, district and Operator visions to deliver distinctive, emotive and commercially viable assets
- Define design principles, typologies and benchmarks for each hotel tier
- Lead consultant strategy and governance including scope definition, briefing, selection and performance management
- Provide technical design oversight through design and construction, resolving interfaces and deviations
- Guide design reviews across key milestones to ensure alignment with design intent and project objectives
- Guide value engineering and design optimisation, assessing impact on design intent and asset performance
- Champion sustainability and low carbon design, embedding ESG and Vision 2030 priorities
- Mentor teams and drive continuous improvement of design processes, standards and best practices
Requirements
- Extensive experience in design leadership for large scale hospitality, entertainment, or mixed use projects
- Proven ability to set design direction and manage design teams and consultants
- Strong knowledge of design standards, BIM, and sustainability practices
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
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About the role
- At Qiddiya Investment Company, we are shaping a landmark destination redefining entertainment, culture and hospitality in the Kingdom.
- The Hospitality Business Unit is developing a portfolio of hotel assets central to this vision.
- In this role, you will lead the Design Excellence function across the hospitality portfolio, setting the creative and technical design agenda from strategy through to delivery.
- You will act as the senior design authority, ensuring all assets deliver distinctive, high quality and commercially robust environments, underpinned by strong design integrity, innovation and alignment with Qiddiya's vision.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the Design Excellence function, across creative disciplines, design standards, BIM and project embedded design management resources, shaping and endorsing design direction across the portfolio and guiding outcomes through key governance stages
- Curate creative design responses, integrating Qiddiya, district and Operator visions to deliver distinctive, emotive and commercially viable assets
- Define design principles, typologies and benchmarks for each hotel tier, establishing consistent, validated design baselines
- Lead consultant strategy and governance across the portfolio, including scope definition, briefing, selection and performance management
- Lead technical input to development briefs and integrated coordination across disciplines, shaping planning, spatial configuration and system integration
- Provide technical design oversight through design and construction, resolving interfaces and deviations to maintain quality and design intent
- Guide design reviews across key milestones to ensure alignment with design intent and project objectives
- Guide value engineering and design optimisation, assessing impact on design intent and asset performance
- Oversee consultant performance to ensure quality, coordination and alignment across disciplines
- Champion sustainability and low carbon design, embedding ESG and Vision 2030 priorities
- Mentor teams and drive continuous improvement of design processes, standards and best practices
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