Design Manager

Overview

As Design Management Lead, you will steer the Design Management team across the UK and beyond, aligning design initiatives with project goals and the firm’s mission to deliver a better world. You’ll partner with leadership to drive business planning, performance reviews, and mentoring, while ensuring quality and contractual compliance. Your role spans governance, process development, and coordination of sub-consultants and design activities to deliver impactful infrastructure projects. This is an opportunity to shape projects, mentor talent, and contribute to a global, innovation-driven culture.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid work options
• competitive compensation and wellbeing programs
• global project exposure
• equal opportunity employer
• onboarding and development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Lead and support the Design Management team, including mentoring and performance reviews
• Assist in business development and monitor team targets and progress
• Oversee design management processes, quality, budgets, changes, and approvals
• Manage sub-consultants: responsibility matrices, back-to-back contracts, cash flow, invoicing, and monthly financial reports
• Prepare and update sub-consultant contracts and ensure all scope is captured
• Develop and implement design procedures, programmes, deliverables, and coordination efforts
• Organise project meetings and design workshops, monitor progress and outputs
• Ensure compliance with contractual obligations and quality benchmarks
• Achieve AECOM PM accreditation and lead design projects in the UK and internationally
• Support the development of junior team members through training and reviews

Key requirements

• Understanding of the design process
• Project and design programming skills
• Experience in development and implementation of design management tools and procedures
• Excellent communication skills
• Commercial awareness of projects
• Construction knowledge/experience
• Proficiency in MS Project/Excel/InDesign

• strong communication
• leadership and mentoring
• team collaboration
• MS Project
• Excel
• InDesign

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