Senior Manager - Design
by Al Ghurair in Real Estate Development & Property Management
Senior Manager - Design responsible for leading and coordinating the development of urban design strategies and small to mid-scale master plan design across real estate development projects in the UAE. The role involves ensuring cohesive integration of architecture, landscape, mobility, and public realm to create high-quality, people-centric environments aligned with UAE regulatory frameworks, climate conditions, and cultural context. The position oversees placemaking initiatives across projects, shaping vibrant destinations through strong narrative development, activation strategies, alignment with development vision, and responsiveness to local market expectations and lifestyle trends in the UAE. Responsibilities include supporting development and refinement of design briefs, RFPs, consultant scopes, conducting design benchmarking and market research, and creating internal reference documentation to inform design direction. The role includes evaluating and prequalifying architectural and specialist consultants, maintaining consultant performance insights, providing input on design strategies to enhance quality, efficiency, and sustainability, and ensuring adherence to internal design processes, standards, and governance frameworks. The Senior Manager coordinates multidisciplinary design activities, manages design documentation using Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC), ensures version control and timely distribution, reviews consultant submissions including drawings, reports, and presentations, and provides structured feedback. The position supports technical reviews of construction documents, specifications, and schedules, conducts site visits to monitor design compliance, resolves issues, tracks progress, liaises with consultants, contractors, and vendors, maintains project files and design trackers using ACC platform, prepares meeting agendas, schedules, and manages design-related correspondence. The role requires strong proficiency in BIM, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Microsoft Office, AutoCAD, Revit, SketchUp, Adobe Suite, and experience managing external design consultants, overseeing design processes from concept to completion, managing consultancy agreements, design deliverables, value engineering, cost optimization, and mitigating design risks across development lifecycle.