Head of Design Management

Head of Design Management

Location: Midlands Area (East Midlands & West Midlands)

Competitive Salary + Benefits

Permanent/Full Time

Internal Vacancy

Do you want to be involved in creating iconic buildings, using intelligent solutions to deliver bespoke projects to our clients and be part of the future of construction? Then join our team asHead ofDesign Management and start the future, today!

About Morgan Sindall:

Morgan Sindall Construction is an Investors in People Platinum employer providing national construction services to private and public sector customers across a range of markets. Together, we create great results for our customers, partners and people. We are one of the UK’s most successful Tier 1 contractors. As a progressive and ambitious company, our employees benefit from a safe and rewarding working environment.

About the role:

We are looking for an experienced and talented Head of Design Management.

• To provide leadership, direction, support and guidance supported by coaching and mentoring for the Design Managers
• Ensure consistency and adherence to Morgan Sindall processes and procedures.
• Communicate Group direction and procedural change via regular communication and instigate forums to promote best practice/lessons learnt/Innovation
• Manage resource with commercial consideration in collaboration with the Business Unit Senior Leadership team
• Promote a collaborative culture with a hands-on team engagement approach
• Create a regular means of 2-way-communication with our core external consultants

You will be educated to degree or HNC/HND level in a relevant technical discipline and you will be a member of an industry recognised professional institute (eg. RIBA or CIOB).

A full UK driving licence is essential.

For Internal candidates applying for the role please find the required summary brief, which should be presented at the interview :

Presentation duration : 30 minutes

Brief Overview : Demonstrate your plan of how you will implement and manage the below to create a positive and supportive culture across the Business Unit geography, whilst maintaining regular dialogue to the Senior Leadership team.

1. Maintain regular dialogue with your design community ensuring the transition of workload is productively managed between the preconstruction/build/post-completion phases of our workload.

1. Support, develop and challenge the design managers to create a collaborative team approach within both the preconstruction and delivery phases.

1. Implement team development programmes to ensure their experience and training is aligned to our work-sector.

1. Ensure group direction and procedural change are communicated and implemented efficiently.

1. Monitor Design Manager resource allocation in line with preconstruction and project budgets.

1. Develop Consultant appointments and scope documents to align with project needs and manage risk proportionally.

1. Create a regular and open dialogue forum, with our key external design consultants.

1. Highlight any concerns or support needed to allow the transition from your current role, into the new Head-of-Design, leadership role .

To thrive in our business, you should share our passion for the project at hand and enjoy working in an inclusive and hardworking team environment. At Morgan Sindall Construction our employees work collectively, encouraging and challenging each other to succeed. Across our business we treat everyone equally and have developed a community where voices are heard, and respected.

What can we offer you!

You will be part of a dynamic team of people who are passionate about what they do and enjoy the challenge and pace of work in a hardworking and fun environment. No day will be the same and we challenge each other to deliver what’s right for our customers.

Our culture is so important to us and defines the way we go about our business. We are inclusive, supportive and team focused and take pride in the longstanding and committed relationships we have with our supply chain partners.

Our culture places a huge amount of trust in our team – we all know what is expected of us and we are committed to delivering as individuals and as a team.

We strive to support our colleagues to achieve a healthy work-life balance. We understand that many of our people have family and personal responsibilities and so we are committed to providing that support.

Here are just some of the benefits you can expect: Pension scheme; Generous holiday allowance; Private healthcare cover; Life assurance up to 4 times your basic salary; Recognition for professional qualification/membership achieved; Mental wellbeing and employee Support; People portal for high street discounts; Long service awards; Sharesave plan; Incentive scheme; Enhanced family leave and more!

If you are interested in furthering your career in an inclusive and supportive environment, apply to us today!

Equality Statement

Morgan Sindall Construction seeks to recruit the best person for each of our roles, based on merit alone and free from bias. We’re committed to treating all our job applicants fairly and with respect, irrespective of their background, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

We recruit individuals who embody our core values of professionalism, expertise and trust which has given us a fantastic variety of people and cultures across our organisation.

We celebrate our diverse teams who make Morgan Sindall Construction the inclusive, collaborative and rewarding place it is to work. We hire the best in the industry, provide them the support to achieve their goals and challenge them to make a real impact on our business. If you want to join an organisation that truly sees and harnesses what makes you unique, apply to us today.

Diversity and Inclusion Statement

Our aim is to create a workplace built on acceptance, respect, and inclusion, where everyone feels that they belong and can make a meaningful contribution. We encourage applicants regardless of religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family, or parental status. Morgan Sindall Construction is an equal opportunities employer and has been accredited with the Positive About Disabled People ‘Two Ticks’ accreditation. We are also an Investors in People company.

Morgan Sindall is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK. In the recruitment process all applicants are required to provide the necessary right to work information and documentation. Our recruitment process should be accessible to all.