Design Studio Manager

1 week ago

الرياض, Saudi Arabia Alpin Limited Full time

**About setec KSA**:
Setec is one of the world’s leaders in multidisciplinary engineering; an independent group owned by its engineers who rely on their talent, passion, and know-how. Over the last 60 years, Setec has gained an international reputation for services excellence, with a workforce of over 3,300 multidisciplinary specialists throughout the world.

Setec has prestigious references for a wide range of fields that cover infrastructure, transport, water engineering, energy efficient buildings, industrial installations, and project management consultancy services. Playing a role on some of the largest current design & construction projects worldwide, the group’s engineers take on challenges in real estate development by bringing value to the projects they engage.

**Key accountabilities**:
You are responsible for overseeing and managing all aspects of day to day operations, studio overall performance, ensuring key deliverables and milestones are achieved with continuous process improvement.

**Key Responsabilities**
- Driving the Design Studio’s successful establishment, operations and hand-over using proactive management, leadership, and collaboration skills.
- Focus on and be accountable for actualizing core business segments:
(1) Establishing an efficient operating Studio building on the current working studio offices including the physical plant and all operational systems & procedures

(2) Establishing the associated digital platform including web portal, library-archives, general administration, outreach, intraoperative and external parties training, submissions compliance certification workflow, and monitoring-reporting.

(3) Transacting the compliance review of submittals against set criteria on Urban Identities, Architectural Identity Guidelines (AIGs) including third party orientation-process induction, advice, submissions-review-certification, site audits, directives-guidelines-codes feedback and continuous process improvement/QA/QC review and feedback.
- Manage and be accountable for the business: facilities establishment, requirements fulfillment strategy, key deliverables during Phase 1 Establishment period & Ph.2 Operations period corresponding Objectives-Key Results-KPIs development-monitoring-enforcement, associated policies & procedures, program devpment-management, human-equipment-facilities resourcing & management, and budget-cost-accounting-P&L management.
- Assessing business requirements across all Design Studio segments.
- Collaborating with the Client to secure and maintain all required business registrations, licenses, and accounts.
- Managing operations and Supervising the Design Studio staff & works.
- Designing deployment schedules commensurate
- Designing and presiding over the employee performance appraisal process.
- Ensuring the workplace is conducive to maximum productivity, safe, free of security issues and in compliance with all government regulations.
- Preparing robust cross-coordinated business and program execution plans.
- Orchestrating workshops, awareness campaigns, brain-storming sessions, third party consultations, education seminars, town halls and making effective content-rich presentations to the Client, third parties, Setec and the Design Studio staff.
- Managing the Lean Process Design Program improving efficiency, eliminating waste, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and implementing team-wide planning & delivery with focus on making holistic decisions & integration of the business segments.
- Managing the Continuous Quality Improvement Program. Monitoring and implementing navigational actions to optimize and enhance performance.
- Leading the integrated team in driving forward a Center of Excellence.
- Taking ownership of all Design Studio decisions including firm but fair reconciliation of differences.
- Leading and being the Design Studio authorized signatory on all matters of general administrative, commercial, and QA-QC matters.
- Negotiating contracts and purchase orders including sub-consultants, seconded personnel, vendors, and suppliers; organizing & coordinating the same.
- Reviewing and approving the detailed progress and coordination of monthly and quarterly studio operations reports.
- Preparing Design Studio monthly and quarterly business summary including status reports accounting for all Objectives-Key Results-KPIs-P&L across the entire Design Studio business; reconciling the same with and assimilating the path forward with the Client and Setec KSA.

**Skills & experience**:
Bachelor of Architecture or Master of Architecture or Urban Design, with very substantial track record of business and project management responsibility & experience.

Minimum 15 Years post-graduate
- GCC experience, especially KSA
- Experience setting up and managing a Design Studio of approx. 15 personnel requiring the same or similar Responsibilities and Activities as outlined above.
- PMP Certification
- Understanding of legal and regulatory requi

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