Senior Manager - Interior Designer - Mall/Hospitality Projects

Location-Mumbai

Reports to-Head of Department (EVP Architecture)

He must have Experience into Mall/Hospitality Projects.

He must have Experience worked in Top International Interior Designing companies.

Qualification - B. Arch/Interior Designing

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES OF THE ROLE

1. Contract Management

- Ensuring timely receipt of deliverables- Follow up where necessary

- Certifying payment requests/ invoices

2. Design and Procurement Coordination:

External Stakeholders

- Provide client brief to design consultants

- Manage weekly coordination meetings with different consultants. Circulate MOM's with action items and dates for follow ups.

- Review deliverables with respect to client and other stake holder requirements; provide feedback

- Channel feedback from various stake holders to consultants and ensure that they are incorporated in their documentation

- Review design documentation to ensure incorporation of all feedback. Also, obtaining sign-offs from various stakeholders prior to issuing documentation to site for tendering/ construction

- Interact with different vendors to obtain preliminary information for incorporation into the base design. This includes any technical details, space requirements, etc.

Internal Stakeholders

- Discuss initial design with the management and obtaining budgetary direction for projects

- Review deliverables with management for adherence to budgets, timelines and project brief

- Obtaining approvals from management for various components of the project including design direction

- Presenting design drawings to the management and obtaining signoff prior to allowing the consultants to proceed with the further design documentation

- Provide direction & guidance to the team for managing the design and coordination efforts

- Provide relevant project related information for internal stakeholders- statutory application to government authorities.

- Also, provide information to other departments like sales and marketing to update project marketing collaterals.

- Update management at regular intervals the status of project with respect to design deliverables and construction progress

- Coordinate with other departments- Architecture, Landscape, Structure, MEP, etc to ensure interior design intent is met. Also, identify constraints pertaining to the above and advice interior designer to align their design with the same.

Value Engineering

- Researching and obtaining alternate vendors/ material specifications to reduce project cost while maintaining the design intent

- Assist procurement team in responding to queries from alternate vendors to obtain competitive pricing

- Review comparative statements and present to management for approval

- Follow up with procurement team for options of materials and vendors.

Vendor Management

- Review and provide preliminary feedback; provide recommendation of alternate vendor to procurement team from the design point of view.

- Follow up with procurement team to obtain deliverable and production timelines

- Review and sign-off Purchase Orders prior to placing final orders.

3. Construction duration Design Management:

- Issue coordinated design documentation to sites

- Responding to queries pertaining to design documentation and forwarding them to relevant parties/ consultants.

- Carry out preliminary review of shop drawings and material submittals prior to forwarding them to consultants for their review.

- Regular site visits to verify construction progress adheres to design intent. Provide directions for rectification (if required)

- Resolve site related design/ coordination issues

- Issue snag lists to sites and verifying completion of the same prior to review by consultant. Provide final signoffs on behalf of the client

- Visiting production facilitates to review mockups, basic forms of furniture's prior to final finishing and advising changes/ modification if necessary.

- Visiting warehouses to select material like stone, veneer, etc.