苏州招聘

TITLE

Design Manager

BUSINESS UNIT

Corporate Solutions – Project & Development Services

REPORTING TO

Functional to Project Manager

DIRECT REPORT POSITIONS

TBC

JOB RELATIONSHIPS

Internal

Project team, Ops team, Account manager, Management team

External

Client, Consultant, QS, Contractor

POSITION GOALS

Manage and lead design activities on schedule and within budget, and ensure design deliverables are satisfactory with fully coordination and have good quality to guide procurement and construction.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Overall Design Management and Cooperation

- Collecting client requirements and fully understand client intent

- Set up proper design management procedure agreed by client and design team

- Fully coordination with design team and within design team to avoid misunderstanding and design gap

- Plan and drive reporting meeting with client & relevant government authorities

- Plan and drive design coordination meeting/technical workshop within design team

- Drive and manage value engineering throughout the design

- Drive design counterchecking/reviewing meeting and ensure design deliverables quality

- Coordinate designers to align the Design program with the Procurement program

- Identify specific Hold Points that will require specific Client decisions during the design development process.

- Identify, evaluate, manage and track design changes

- Manage handover sessions

- Cooperate with procurement team and provide technique support during the procurement process

- Coordinate with design team provide technique review and guidance during the construction administration stage

- Coordinate with design team to attend the practical completion and provide defect lists.

Design Schedule Management

- Work out practical design schedule which can match master schedule

- Monitor design team performance against the design schedule and advise on progress

Risk Management

- Identify and alert delay risk to Project Manager in advance and work with Project Manager for rectification solutions

- Design risk management

KEY PERFORMANCE

MEASURES

See individual Performance Measurement Targets

EMPLOYEE SPECIFICATIONS

Education /Work Experience Requirement

- A degree in architectural, civil engineering, or MEP engineering related discipline or related field or a combination of formal education and work experience in excess of ten (10) years, all of which must be related to all aspects of Design/Construction/Project Management

- A strong understanding of all aspects of Design Management

Technical and Administrative Skills

- Strong technical background

- Expert in design management and coordination

- Skills for MS Project, Excel, Word and/or other scheduling software, AutoCAD is preferred

Business Skills

- Ability to conduct business development presentation to potential clients in both English and Chinese.

- Understand the legal environment in design contracts and be able to manage the design contract accordingly.

- Assist the Project Manager as appropriate to carry out commercial negotiations with design consultants.

- Control, manage and negotiate variation orders of design consultant.

Interpersonal Skills

- Motivate design team members.

- Provide leadership to design team

- Maintain and cultivate good relationship with all stakeholders.

- Create an environment where all team members are encouraged to contribute.

- Manage design team members to achieve enthusiastic and effective contribution to the project.

- Communicate effectively with entire project team.

COMPETENCIES

Understanding the business

- Very well versed in project products, systems, processes, tools and best practices

- Effectively uses all appropriate online systems and tools

- Manages project safety requirements and demonstrates a ‘safety first’ mindset

- General knowledge of key industries and local market

- Knowledge of both real estate and construction (or specialist) business / vendors

- Understands client’s business requirements

- Basic understanding of drivers that move margins at the site level

- Knows contractual, financial and time related goals as they relate to site operations

- Ensures follow-on business through flawless execution and delighted customers

Flawless execution & Results orientation

- Committed to flawless execution. Drives to achieve KPIs for the site

- Proactively seeks client feedback and acts on it. Receives positive customer feedback scores

- Implements “best in class” standards

- Proficiently manages multiple activities (including different people, vendors and resources) across the project to accomplish a goal

- Seen as a team player, cooperative

- Accepts the value of being part of a larger firm

- Encourages collaboration within and outside the team

- Willingly shares information and resources

- Actively supports both the JLL and PDS brand

- Demonstrates perseverance in the face of obstacles

- Maintains solution oriented mindset at all times

Problem Solving & Strategic Thinking Skills

- Demonstrates good understanding of the clients needs and develops sound solutions to address these

- Able to handle site-specific problems & delivers integrated solutions

- Quickly adapts to changing environment, displays positive attitude towards change

- Be able to handle ambiguity

- Can negotiate to generate risk assessed solutions

- Be able to address root causes of problems, not just symptoms

- Anticipates problems proactively and devises contingency plans

- Understands the strategic priorities set for the project

- Demonstrate mindset and ability to improve client service experience on the site

- Supports account or client specific change programs.

- Supports regional initiatives as required

- Actively contributes to local peer group and supports knowledge sharing within the account or client

Client Focus & Relationship Management

- Comprehensive knowledge of what’s happening on the project

- Demonstrates that s/he values and respects other people’s views

- Adopts style of interaction to client/situational needs

- Able to manage client expectation

- Able to resolve conflict at site level but maintain compliance within boundaries of established policies

- Understands client needs and knows how the firm delivers against these

- Builds and works to sustain lasting relationships with clients

- Is viewed as valuable resource by clients

- Demonstrates “client first” mindset

- Understands the CRM process

Communication & Presence

- Demonstrates credibility

- Clearly seen as being “in charge” of the site

- Earns the clients’ trust

- Respectful of people from different backgrounds

- Respects different points of view as being as valid as own

- Understands and can apply JLL ethical goals

- Articulates ideas and facts clearly, logically and concisely in oral and written communication

- Manages detail appropriately in reporting

- Actively listens to others and has patience to hear people out

- Can get message across and have desired effect

- Maintains calm when dealing with difficult clients / vendors

Leadership & People Development

- Well respected individual, leads by example

- Reactive, responsive, visible, approachable

- Invites exchange of opinions and ideas

- Shares information proactively

- Manages performance and self-development

- Engineers situations for team members to practice and demonstrate new skills

- Motivates project member to give their best

- Upholds the firm’s values and culture