Design Manager - 12-month fixed term in Bromsgrove

We are recruiting a Design Manager for a fixed‑term 12‑month maternity cover period to support our Midlands Business Unit, with an opportunity to progress into a longer‑term, project‑based role as future projects develop.

Key Responsibilities

• Take independent responsibility for design management on medium to large‑scale projects, coordinating design activities and managing consultant relationships.
• Implement design management processes aligned to contract requirements and business objectives, including governance, review gates and decision rights.
• Foster a collaborative culture focused on quality, safety and continuous improvement across project teams and consultant partners.
• Develop and manage project design programmes, establish logic, interfaces and dependencies across design disciplines, and integrate consultant and supply‑chain TIDPs into programmes.
• Lead design coordination meetings focused on programme delivery, issue resolution and stakeholder alignment.
• Work with Document Control and Digital Engineering teams to implement Information Management plans (EIR/AIR/OIR) and BIM Execution Plans, and maintain CDE systems with naming conventions, workflows and approval processes.
• Ensure correct publication and maintenance of MIDP/TIDP, manage model federation and clash detection processes and oversee issue identification and resolution.
• Coordinate comprehensive approvals strategy, including Planning permissions, Building Control, highways, utilities, and environmental consents, and manage Building Control submissions and amendments.
• Ensure compliance with CDM 2015 and Building Safety Act Gateway requirements, including design risk management and designer competence management.
• Review and assess Employer's Requirements and Works Information; develop compliant Contractor's Proposals and design deliverable schedules with clear acceptance criteria.
• Support compensation event and variation assessments, coordinate technical submittals, maintain approvals tracking systems and support commercial recommendations.
• Support consultant appointment processes and manage novation processes, monitor consultant performance and implement improvement measures.
• Coordinate multi‑disciplinary design reviews, value engineering initiatives and constructability assessments, and identify standardisation opportunities.
• Implement sustainability plans in line with Vinci Building’s Environment Roadmap, coordinate carbon assessments, integrate outcomes into design processes, and support sustainability rating evidence compilation.

Equal Opportunity Statement

VINCI Building is an equal‑opportunity employer committed to fairness, inclusion and respect. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made as part of the application process, please contact us directly.