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Senior Design Manager – Landscape

Buro Happold 🇸🇦 Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia

Onsite Contract Senior

Lead landscape design management across project stages, overseeing consultants and landscape packages while ensuring design quality, technical coordination, authority compliance, and integration with architecture and infrastructure. Manage design reviews, risks, programme and interface issues, value engineering, stakeholder coordination, consultant deliverables, and procurement support.

Responsibilities

  • Lead landscape design management across project stages, overseeing consultants and landscape packages while ensuring design quality, technical coordination, authority compliance, and integration with architecture and infrastructure. Manage design reviews, risks, programme and interface issues, value engineering, stakeholder coordination, consultant deliverables, and procurement support.

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture, Architecture, or a related design discipline is required, along with significant landscape design management experience on high-end hospitality, residential, mixed-use, or destination projects. Candidates should have strong public realm and external works knowledge, multidisciplinary coordination and stakeholder skills, and familiarity with design approvals and construction support; BIM and Middle East experience are preferred.

Benefits

  • Attractive Salary And Benefits Package

Key Skills

Landscape design management Design review coordination Technical coordination Authority compliance Integration with architecture and infrastructure Risk management Programme and interface issue handling Value engineering Stakeholder coordination Consultant deliverables management Procurement support Public realm design External works knowledge Multidisciplinary coordination BIM Construction support Design approvals process Project management Leadership Communication Negotiation Problem solving Strategic planning Client liaison Sustainability considerations Middle East project experience Presentation skills Team mentoring

About Buro Happold

We are an international, integrated consultancy of engineers, designers and advisers. For over 45 years, we have built an unrivalled reputation by delivering creative, value-led solutions for the benefit of people, places and planet. Described by our clients as 'passionate', 'innovative' and 'collaborative', Buro Happold is synonymous with the delivery of exceptionally complex projects on every continent, working with the world's leading architectural practices and organisations, such as the United Nations, UNESCO and C40 Cities. Through our global community of driven, world-leading engineering, advisory and design professionals, we are acting to address major challenges in an ever-evolving world.

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