Senior Manager - Hospitality Design Management📣 Job Ad
| Contract Type | Full-time | |
| Workplace type | On-site | |
| Location | Riyadh |
About the Role
Parsons Corporation is seeking a Senior Manager - Hospitality Design Management to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role is integral to cultivating an environment that empowers individuals and drives innovation within the company's leadership vision.
Role Overview
The Senior Manager - Hospitality Design Management is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the design development of hospitality assets from the initial briefing stage through to final delivery. The role focuses on translating project visions into buildable and distinctive design outcomes, ensuring quality, guiding key decisions, and maintaining alignment with guest experience, brand positioning, and Operator requirements. Collaboration with consultants, Operators, and internal stakeholders is essential to coordinate design interfaces, decision-making processes, and ensure designs are integrated, compliant, and meet program and quality objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and coordinate the design development of hospitality assets from early-stage briefs through to delivery, ensuring alignment with guest experience, asset positioning, and client objectives.
- Lead, manage, and coordinate consultant teams, Operator interfaces, and stakeholder inputs to support the delivery of integrated, buildable design solutions.
- Monitor design progress across all project stages, ensuring deliverables, reviews, approvals, and timelines are met.
- Drive design quality and integrity across architecture, interiors, and landscape, including mock-up rooms, materials, FF&E, and OS&E.
- Guide and contribute to design decision-making by evaluating design solutions against operational, technical, guest experience, and commercial objectives.
- Coordinate across stakeholders to resolve design interfaces, risks, and coordination issues.
- Ensure design packages comply with project briefs, Operator standards, technical requirements, and applicable authority regulations.
- Support design governance and reporting, including the preparation of presentations, design reviews, and communication of design intent.
- Drive innovation and benchmark design solutions against global best-in-class hospitality standards.
- Contribute to the ongoing improvement of design management standards, processes, and project delivery practices.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Interior Design, or a related discipline.
- Professional membership or recognized certification is preferred (*, RIBA, AIA, RICS, or equivalent).
- A minimum of 15 years of experience in design management, architecture, or interior design.
- Strong design management capability and good design judgment.
- Commercial awareness.
- Experience in delivering high-quality design outcomes.
- Experience working with consultants and multi-disciplinary teams across complex projects.
- Experience in KSA / GCC or similar large-scale development environments is preferred.
- Established key relationships with stakeholders, including Hotel Operators, Consultants, Contractors and Suppliers, Delivery Partners / Project Management Consultants, and Government Authorities.
Required Skills and Proficiencies
- Architecture
- Interior Design
- Design Management
- Coordination
- Stakeholder Management
- Clear communication with strong presentation skills.
- Ability to influence design decisions and contribute to design direction.
- Experience working with Hotel Operators and Brand Standards.
- Experience working with Multi-disciplinary Teams.
- Design Governance
- FF&E (Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment)
- OS&E (Operating Supplies & Equipment)
- Proficiency in design management tools such as Aconex and Autodesk Construction Cloud.
Work Environment and Location
This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role requires comfort operating in fast-paced environments, managing ambiguity, and shifting priorities.
Requirements
- Requires +10 Years experience
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