Senior Design Manager – Interior Design
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About the Role
Buro Happold seeks a Senior Design Manager – Interior Design for a luxury project in Riyadh. You will lead interior design management, coordinate consultants, and ensure quality delivery.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Lead interior design management process across concept, schematic, developed and detailed design stages
- Manage and coordinate interior design consultants, specialist designers and subconsultants
- Review interior design submissions for quality, compliance, functionality, luxury standards and project brief alignment
- Coordinate interior design packages with architecture, MEP, structures, procurement and operations teams
- Support design gateway reviews, mock up reviews and technical approvals
- Manage issues, risks and project change requests related to interior design
- Participate in value engineering and cost validation exercises
- Support Project Manager and Project Director in overall project deliverables
- Prepare RFPs for interior design consultants and specialist suppliers
- Write weekly and monthly reports on design progress and key decisions
- Act as primary client liaison on interior design matters
- Define organization of design and delivery process
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design, Architecture or related field
- Significant experience in interior design management on luxury hospitality, residential, retail, mixed use or destination developments
- Strong understanding of premium interior design standards, detailing, materials and multidisciplinary coordination
- Ability to operate in a BIM environment; familiarity with Revit, BIM360 and Navisworks preferred
- Excellent written, visualization and verbal communication skills
- Positive and resilient attitude, ability to manage high volume deliverables
- Highly organized, creative and conscientious
- Middle East project experience strongly preferred
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Your next role
- Provide proactive Design Management to deliver major building projects in the Middle East.
- Responsible for successful project execution and delivery, client interface, and leading technical quality of interior design for a landmark luxury project in Riyadh.
Your key duties
- Lead interior design management process across all design stages.
- Manage and coordinate interior design consultants.
- Review interior design submissions for quality and compliance.
- Coordinate interior design packages with other teams.
- Support design gateway reviews and technical approvals.
- Manage issues, risks and change requests.
- Participate in value engineering.
- Support Project Manager and Project Director.
- Prepare RFPs.
- Write weekly and monthly reports.
- Act as primary client liaison.
- Define design and delivery process organization.
Your Skills And Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design, Architecture or related field.
- Significant experience in interior design management on luxury developments.
- Strong understanding of premium interior design standards.
- Able to operate in BIM environment; Revit, BIM360, Navisworks preferred.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Positive and resilient attitude.
- Highly organized and creative.
- Middle East project experience strongly preferred.
What We Offer You
- Chance to influence landscape identity of a world class luxury project.
- Senior role in design led environment.
- Attractive salary and benefits package.
- Collaborative and ambitious team culture.
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