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Senior Design Manager

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

Full-time Senior

Manage design processes and external consultants across hotel conversion projects, monitoring deliverables, programmes, and information quality. Coordinate specialist contractors and internal teams, lead design reviews, resolve risks, ensure regulatory compliance, and oversee design documentation and construction-stage quality.

Responsibilities

  • Manage design processes and external consultants across hotel conversion projects, monitoring deliverables, programmes, and information quality. Coordinate specialist contractors and internal teams, lead design reviews, resolve risks, ensure regulatory compliance, and oversee design documentation and construction-stage quality.

Requirements

  • Applicants need 10+ years of design management experience in a main contractor, developer, or consultancy, a degree in architecture or a related discipline, and experience with hotel, hospitality, or residential conversions. They should understand hotel fit-out, building envelopes, MEP services, construction methods, buildability, and Building Regulations, and be commercially aware and confident managing stakeholders, budgets, and programmes; Procore experience is desirable.

Key Skills

Design management Hotel conversion design Process monitoring External consultant coordination Programme management Information quality control Specialist contractor coordination Design reviews Risk resolution Regulatory compliance Construction‑stage documentation Buildability assessment MEP integration Building envelope knowledge Construction methods Commercial awareness Stakeholder management Budget control Procore Cross‑functional teamwork Leadership 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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