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Design Manager

Criterion Hospitality Ltd 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom

Full-time Senior

Lead design delivery and manage external consultants, overseeing technical design, documentation, approvals, regulatory compliance, and RIBA Stage 5 packages. Coordinate with project, construction, and commercial teams to meet budgets and programmes, assess designs for buildability and operational suitability, and identify risks and value engineering opportunities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design delivery and manage external consultants, overseeing technical design, documentation, approvals, regulatory compliance, and RIBA Stage 5 packages. Coordinate with project, construction, and commercial teams to meet budgets and programmes, assess designs for buildability and operational suitability, and identify risks and value engineering opportunities.

Requirements

  • Requires 5+ years of design management experience with a main contractor or developer, including delivery of RIBA Stage 5 packages as a Design Manager or Senior Architect. Applicants should have a degree in Architecture or a related discipline, relevant hotel, hospitality, or residential conversion experience, strong technical and construction knowledge, and confidence managing consultants and multidisciplinary teams; Procore experience is desirable.

Key Skills

Design management RIBA Stage 5 delivery Technical design Construction documentation Regulatory compliance Design approvals Budget management Program coordination Buildability assessment Value engineering Risk identification Architectural design Hotel and hospitality design Residential conversion Procore Cross‑functional teamwork Stakeholder communication Leadership Project coordination Construction knowledge Design review facilitation Problem solving Design documentation standards Team mentoring

About Criterion Hospitality Ltd

Criterion Capital is a real estate asset manager that identifies, acquires, develops and manages real estate on behalf of long-term investors. As an entrepreneurial, privately-owned business we offer a proactive, results-driven culture and a collaborative environment for investors.

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