Senior Landscape Design Manager
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About the Role
A tier 1 developer in Dubai seeks a Senior Landscape Design Manager to lead landscape design strategy across mixed-use, hospitality, and public realm projects. The role requires managing consultants, ensuring design quality, and aligning with commercial and sustainability goals.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Lead the landscape design vision and delivery across a diverse development portfolio
- Define landscape design principles, public realm strategies, and placemaking initiatives aligned with project objectives
- Drive innovative and sustainable design solutions that enhance project quality and user experience
- Maintain consistency in design standards, character, and quality throughout all project phases
- Balance design excellence with commercial, operational, and technical requirements
- Manage landscape architects and specialist consultants from concept through project completion
- Review consultant deliverables to ensure alignment with project goals, timelines, and quality standards
- Lead design workshops, presentations, and coordination meetings with internal and external stakeholders
- Provide clear design direction and timely feedback to support successful project delivery
- Oversee the review and approval of design packages, including concept, schematic, detailed design, IFC, and tender documentation
- Ensure designs comply with company standards, authority requirements, sustainability objectives, and operational needs
- Identify design risks, resolve inconsistencies, and coordinate with architecture, planning, engineering, infrastructure, and project delivery teams
Requirements
- Degree in Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Architecture, or a related discipline; postgraduate qualification is an advantage
- Professional registration or membership with a recognized industry body is preferred
- 10–15 years of experience delivering landscape, urban design, or public realm projects
- Strong background working with developers, master developers, and large scale mixed use or urban developments
- Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary consultants and managing projects through all design stages
- Solid understanding of project delivery within the Middle East/GCC market is highly valued
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The Role
- The Senior Landscape Design Manager will lead the landscape design strategy across a diverse portfolio of masterplans, mixed use, hospitality, residential, commercial and public realm projects. The role is responsible for guiding design quality throughout the project lifecycle while managing consult
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the landscape design vision and delivery across a diverse development portfolio.
- Define landscape design principles, public realm strategies, and placemaking initiatives aligned with project objectives.
- Drive innovative and sustainable design solutions that enhance project quality and user experience.
- Maintain consistency in design standards, character, and quality throughout all project phases.
- Balance design excellence with commercial, operational, and technical requirements.
- Manage landscape architects and specialist consultants from concept through project completion.
- Review consultant deliverables to ensure alignment with project goals, timelines, and quality standards.
- Lead design workshops, presentations, and coordination meetings with internal and external stakeholders.
- Provide clear design direction and timely feedback to support successful project delivery.
- Oversee the review and approval of design packages, including concept, schematic, detailed design, IFC, and tender documentation.
- Ensure designs comply with company standards, authority requirements, sustainability objectives, and operational needs.
- Identify design risks, resolve inconsistencies, and coordinate with architecture, planning, engineering, infrastructure, and project delivery teams.
Requirements
- Degree in Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Architecture, or a related discipline; postgraduate qualification is an advantage.
- Professional registration or membership with a recognized industry body is preferred.
- 10–15 years of experience delivering landscape, urban design, or public realm projects.
- Strong background working with developers, master developers, and large scale mixed use or urban developments.
- Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary consultants and managing projects through all design stages.
- Solid understanding of project delivery within the Middle East/GCC market is highly valued.
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