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Senior Masterplanning Lead / Senior Urban Designer
Hire Pals
Dubai, UAE
Full Time
Senior
2 weeks ago
MasterplanningUrban DesignProject LeadershipBusiness DevelopmentClient Relationship ManagementMultidisciplinary Team Coordination
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About the Role
A multidisciplinary design consultancy in Dubai is seeking a Senior Masterplanning Lead / Senior Urban Designer to provide strategic design leadership and support business development.
Key Skills for This Role
MasterplanningUrban DesignProject LeadershipBusiness DevelopmentClient Relationship ManagementMultidisciplinary Team Coordination
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of major masterplanning and urban design projects across the Middle East
- Support strategic business development activities, including reviewing RFPs, developing technical methodologies and contributing to winning proposals
- Provide design leadership and mentorship across the studio, ensuring projects maintain the highest technical and creative standards
- Manage senior client relationships, facilitate design workshops and lead key project presentations
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, consultants and external stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle
- Guide projects through regional planning processes and authority approvals, ensuring compliance with local regulations and development frameworks
Requirements
- Extensive experience delivering large scale masterplanning projects across the Middle East
- Strong portfolio demonstrating projects from concept creation through to detailed design and authority approval
- Experience leading multidisciplinary design teams and mentoring junior professionals
- Excellent client facing and stakeholder management skills
- Strong understanding of regional planning regulations, urban design principles and development strategies
- Commercial awareness with ability to balance design excellence with programme, budget and client objectives
Full Job Posting
Opportunity Overview
- We're partnering with a highly regarded multidisciplinary design consultancy in Dubai to appoint a Senior Masterplanning Lead.
- This is a senior leadership opportunity for an accomplished Masterplanner with extensive Middle East experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of major masterplanning and urban design projects across the Middle East.
- Support strategic business development activities, including reviewing RFPs, developing technical methodologies and contributing to winning proposals.
- Provide design leadership and mentorship across the studio, ensuring projects maintain the highest technical and creative standards.
- Manage senior client relationships, facilitate design workshops and lead key project presentations.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, consultants and external stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
- Guide projects through regional planning processes and authority approvals, ensuring compliance with local regulations and development frameworks.
About You
- Extensive experience delivering large scale masterplanning projects across the Middle East.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating projects from concept creation through to detailed design and authority approval.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary design teams and mentoring junior professionals.
- Excellent client facing and stakeholder management skills.
- A strong understanding of regional planning regulations, urban design principles and development strategies.
- Commercial awareness with the ability to balance design excellence with programme, budget and client objectives.
The Opportunity
- Join an ambitious and growing design studio with genuine influence over project direction, client relationships and business growth.
- Work on some of the region's most significant development projects.
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