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Design Manager

Bovis 🇬🇧 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

Onsite Full-time Senior

The Design Manager will deliver design management on projects, integrating with senior project teams and managing complex projects across various sectors. They will also represent the business with clients and manage the design review and approval process.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver Design Management on projects using relevant experience and judgement
  • Integrate and work alongside senior project team
  • Represent the business with clients, consultants and supply chain partners
  • Manage complex projects in a variety of different sectors, client types and procurement contexts
  • Bid for new work collaboratively with project teams
  • Manage consultant design through pre-construction period
  • Manage process of design review and approval

Requirements

  • Appropriate CSCS card for the role
  • Professional Construction Qualifications relevant to the role
  • Ability to Plan, Manage and Monitor Design in line with the duties of the Building Act Regulations
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Able to use robust judgement in weighing up multiple, complex, sources of information
  • Able to direct and negotiate with consultants at a senior level
  • Competent IT skills and experience in relevant types of programmes

Benefits

  • Car allowance
  • Up to 10% employer pension contribution
  • Private medical health benefit
  • Life assurance
  • 25 days annual leave
  • Health and wellbeing support and initiatives
  • 24/7 confidential Employee Assistance Programme

Key Skills

Design management Project management Communication Negotiation IT skills Microsoft Office Adobe InDesign Autodesk Construction Cloud BIM Construction law Building regulations CDM regulations RIBA Work Stages Design and construction technical details Contract conditions Liability and responsibility Construction methodologies Safety protocols Sustainability Digital project integration Common data environments Project delivery programmes

About Bovis

Since 1885, we’ve built enduring partnerships grounded in trust, expertise and shared purpose. We bring together the right people, capabilities and resources to deliver complex, high-quality projects – from commercial and residential developments to cultural spaces, universities, prisons and essential public infrastructure. We’re a catalyst for economic growth, a leader in sustainable construction, and we deliver projects that make a lasting impact on people, places and the planet. Backed by robust governance, our agile, one-team approach enables us to navigate complexity, minimise risk and unlock long-term value for clients and communities alike. Through Bovis Consulting, we combine on-the-ground specialist skills with strategic project leadership — drawing on the insight, innovation and technical expertise of our construction business to deliver intelligent, precisely tailored solutions. We don’t just build. We build with purpose, care and clarity. And we always take the l

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