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Architect | Aspiring Design Manager

Grõ Careers 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

Onsite $40,000 - $62,000 Contract Senior

You will lead major projects, ensuring effective coordination and communication among teams while managing project scope and responsibilities. Your role will involve setting direction, clarifying objectives, and facilitating alignment among stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Sitting at the centre of major projects, working across cultural, civic, education, mixed-use, public-sector and large-scale global projects
  • Helping create the structure that allows ambitious design to happen properly
  • Setting direction early, clarifying scope, mapping responsibilities, building sensible programmes, coordinating teams, and managing information flow

Requirements

  • Experience within a respected design practice or similarly complex project environment
  • Strong grounding across RIBA stages 0-4/5
  • Meaningful coordination or leadership responsibility on substantial projects or packages
  • Confidence around programmes, DRMs, risk, change, tender information and stakeholder management
  • The communication skills to represent a project well internally and externally

Benefits

  • A clear move into Design Management or Senior Design Management within a major international practice
  • Exposure to significant, high-profile and genuinely complex work
  • A role that values leadership, judgement and coordination as highly as technical or design pedigree

Key Skills

Architecture Project management Leadership Coordination Communication RIBA stages Design management Programme management Risk management Stakeholder management Teamwork Collaboration

About Grõ Careers

At Grõ Careers, we believe recruitment works best when it’s personal, focused… and built on trust. We don’t work with everyone… instead, we partner with organisations and individuals who share our values and are committed to lasting success. This focus lets us give every client and candidate the time, attention and care they deserve. Much of our work comes through recommendation… clients introducing us to others, and talented professionals seeking us out after hearing how we work: hands-on, detail-driven, and committed to doing what’s right for the long term. For Companies: We tailor each search to your culture, goals and vision. From refining roles to shaping hiring strategies and interviews, we provide an insight-led service that helps you stand out and secure the right talent. For Candidates: Whether you’re progressing, pivoting, or exploring new paths, we offer clear, practical guidance. We’ve helped architects and other BE professionals move into client-side, project managemen

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