Associate Director, Design Advisory and Design Management

Bengaluru - Karnataka - India

Role :
Associate Director, Design Advisory and Design Management

Location :
Bangalore

Experience:
17-20+ years

Reporting:
Vertical Head (Design Advisory and Design Management)

Broad Overview

• You will be a part of the Senior Design Management team for project delivery (design management through pre-construction to close-out), including stakeholder engagement, both internally and externally.
• You will have supporting resources on the projects (Design Managers), and your primary role will be to ensure that the client's vision and intent is being met through the project stages. This entails meeting the Clients on a weekly basis and ensuring that the commitments made are being delivered.
• Any gaps / loopholes in the understanding needs to be plugged in with the stakeholders and design team members
• This role may also translate into the Account Manager role for key accounts (for projects more than 0.5 msft) and will require at least 50% involvement in such projects
• New business generation opportunities to grow the business in Design Management along with timely invoicing and payments from clients will also be one of the key responsibilities.

For an Account (a project more than 0.5 msft, your involvement will be substantial (50%) , along with the design lead of project to drive the results.

For projects less than 0.5 msft, you will overview the project/ projects to ensure delivery is met.

Key Focus Areas
You will ensure

• timely Design Management Coordination for all disciplines along with the sub-consultants appointed on the project.
• technical Design quality is implemented as per the Client Brief.
• requirements and Codal Compliance are met with.
• collaboration with Cost Consultants (where needed) to confirm that the emerging designs are meeting budget targets.
• a systematic approach to Design Management through processes adopted - trackers and registers to capture design changes and decisions made
• creation of Fortnightly / Monthly Design Report / Dashboard highlighting critical issues
• follow up and implement comments and responses during design review stage gate processes

Responsibilities (detailed)

• Guide SME reviewing designs, and ensure that project requirements are met
• Sharing weekly reports and risk registers through planning and documentation manager – ensure accuracy of data and easy representation.
• Participation in all design workshops for assigned projects – leading the design workshops
• Coordination with internal discipline leads, vertical leads (Cost consultancy, testing and commissioning, sustainability)
• Enlisting all required dwgs, documentation on a project and delivery tracking are available and sequenced – through the planning and documentation manager.
• Ensuring the Design schedule is integrated with the Project management schedule and effectively tracked through the planning and documentation manager. Track and highlight any concerns on the same.
• Taking a step back and overview the project, highlight necessary escalations and take steps to ensure deliverables are on track
• Prepare a client signed off value management sheet (support from the team members on the project)
• Participate and steer all value engineering workshops
• Reviewing of all concept drawings / involve in concept closure (Civil+ MEP resource to assist)
• Detailed review of tendering stage. Adequate evidence to show the involvement
• Detailed review of GFC stage. Adequate evidence to show involvement
• Budget / estimate in sync with design. Validate from Cost Consultants where possible
• Coordination with Client's stake holders and raising red flags for delays in decisions from clients
• Coordination with Principal consultant (SMEs) and raising red flags for delays in deliverables / decisions from them.
• Coordination with other consultants (SMEs) and raising red flags for delays in deliverables / decisions from them.
• Quality Assurance of design and implementation of the vision
• Conduct Toll gate / stage gate checks
• Ability to solve design issues in a creative and pragmatic way by developing multiple design options that meet the design approach and budget, where necessary.
• Providing strategic guidance on technical design standards and philosophy.
• Leading technical design reviews and proposing design solutions that meet business needs and leverage global design standardization.
• Building a team consensus and enthusing team members to contribute their best efforts.
• Suggest Tools to manage the design management process effectively.

Leadership

• Prepare and deliver presentations, reports, and other communication materials tailored to stakeholder needs.
• Ensure that all stakeholder engagement activities comply with the relevant regulations and ethical standards.
• Utilize data analytics to drive strategies and decisions.

Culture and Values

• Act with honesty and integrity by following best practices, and upholding the robust standards and expectations set out in T&T's Code of Conduct.
• Maintain fair, ethical and professional work practices
• Adhere to T&T's Policies, procedures, and controls to ensure compliance with rules.

Service line:
None