Gensler
Design Manager
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Your Role
As a Design Manager, it’s your role to lead and deliver a variety of project types and sizes, through all phases. You will join our team of design thinkers and doers who specialize in helping to tell stories and create experiences in the context of workplace, hospitality and retail environments. As the main point of contact for the client in all work produced, you’ll draw on your extensive knowledge of the design and delivery process while mentoring junior staff to encourage the highest level of design and client satisfaction.
What You Will Do
- Develop and nurture positive relationships with existing client contacts, optimising all potential opportunities
- Maintain an awareness of existing clients’ business objectives, plans, target audience and market trends, and ensure that appropriate opportunities are identified to generate further demand for Gensler services
- Responsible for the day-to-day delivery of projects ensuring they are delivered on time and on budget
- Lead and facilitate the overall cross-functional project team
- Focus on the smooth management of the project process, ensuring clarity of requirements, deliverables, timelines and visibility against fees throughout the project life cycle
- Ensuring that the requirements regarding services, schedule and cost overview are met
- Prepare, communicate, and monitor project work plans, budgets, and deliverables for client and internal teams
- Prepare and review proposals, contracts, and consultant agreements
- Manage multiple aspects of client, team and project coordination, including full documentation coordination with structural, MEP, lighting, AV, landscape, civil and other consultants
- Actively take ownership of problems and successful resolution planning in consultation with Studio Director
- Support and contribute to new business development with both current and potential clients
- Contribute positively to Project reports and staffing meetings with concise and accurate information to continually improve the studio’s delivery and financial objectives
- Monitoring and increasing the studio's delivery and financial targets
- Review internal project accounting documents and process draft project billing
- Work alongside Design Director and the Marketing team to ensure that the project story is documented and that photography/videography is arranged, as needed
- Complete client de-brief and explore future opportunities with the client
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Your Qualifications
- Design Management / Project Lead experience, preferably in the Interiors Sector
- 10-15+ years of experience within the UK Workplace Market
- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Interior Design or Architecture
- Strong leadership, organisational, communication and relationship management skills
- Knowledge and experience in all phases of interior design / architectural projects
- Experience managing consultant teams and resolving complex technical and design issues
- Proven ability to provide excellent client service and account leadership
- Strong programming and space planning skills
- High level of design competence
- Understanding of how buildings are constructed and ability to create technical documents that succinctly, thoroughly and accurately describe the work to be done
- Knowledge of building codes
- Sustainable design experience
- Proficiency in Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, 3ds Max, Microsoft Suite, Tableau and Adobe Creative Suite a plus
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Life at Gensler
We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include medical and dental insurance, season ticket loans, pension and twice annual bonus opportunities.
As part of the firm’s commitment to professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional qualifications and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programmes or classes. We view our professional development programmes as strategic investments in our future.
NOTICE TO APPLICANTS
We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer of choice. All aspects of employment decisions will be based on merit, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status protected under applicable regulatory laws.
Individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable regulatory laws.
Gensler endeavors to make gensler.com/careers accessible to all applicants. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us.
Regarding Gensler’s approach to recruiting new talent, we will never ask an applicant for sensitive or personal financial information during the recruitment process. We advise all applicants seeking employment with Gensler to review available information on recruitment fraud. Anyone who suspects that they have been contacted by someone falsely representing Gensler should email talentacquisition@gensler.com.
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