Design manager

️ Design Manager
📍 Gloucestershire

An exceptional opportunity has arisen for an experienced Design Manager to join a major construction project currently entering a critical phase of delivery in Gloucestershire.

Working as part of a high-performing project team, you will be responsible for managing the design process from pre-construction through to project completion, ensuring technical excellence, programme certainty, and successful stakeholder coordination throughout the project lifecycle.
This role would suit an ambitious Design Manager seeking exposure to a large, complex scheme with significant technical, logistical, and stakeholder challenges.

Key Responsibilities:
• Manage and coordinate the design process from pre-construction through delivery
• Lead design team meetings and drive design programme performance
• Coordinate consultants, specialist designers, subcontractors, and project stakeholders
• Ensure design information is delivered in line with programme requirements
• Review design solutions for buildability, compliance, quality, and cost effectiveness
• Identify design risks and develop mitigation strategies
• Support procurement activities and technical package reviews
• Manage design approvals and statutory authority interfaces
• Drive value engineering and continuous improvement initiatives
• Ensure seamless integration between design, commercial, and construction teams

The Ideal Candidate:
• Previous experience as a Design Manager, Senior Design Manager, Design Coordinator, or Technical Manager within the construction industry
• Experience delivering large-scale construction projects
• Strong understanding of design management processes throughout the project lifecycle
• Ability to manage multidisciplinary consultant teams
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Strong knowledge of planning, building regulations, and construction methodologies
• Degree-qualified in Construction Management, Architecture, Engineering, or a related discipline preferred

What's on Offer:
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Long-term project pipeline
• Opportunity to work on a flagship development
• Career progression within a growing project environment
• Supportive and collaborative leadership team

How to Apply?
This position would suit candidates from main contracting, major projects, infrastructure, defence, healthcare, commercial, education, or mixed-use development backgrounds. Appy now or for a confidential discussion, please contact Fiona at Thatcher Associates