Job Title
Regional Design, Associate DirectorJob Description Summary
Professional and specialist workplace design for branches and office projects. Prepares design presentations and documentation, maintains design standards. Focus is on systematic and consistent design support for branches and commercial design in Asia region. Interface with regional and local project teams and centralized specialists to deliver compliant branch and commercial project design, customer journey and necessary detail design for the Bank project portfolio.Job Description
About the role:
- Provide Future focused and affordable project solutions
- Support Regional Design Lead to evolve the design outcome as required through on-going projects and initiatives. Document guideline escalations and changes through tools
- Provide regular country project portfolio reports to Direct and Matrix Leads, using standard formats
- Disseminate, implement, and uphold the Standards, Processes and Procedures relevant to project planning
- Responsible for the daily management and planning of the Design
- Interfaces with the Design Hub in preparing design solution for client’s premises.
- Provide mechanisms for monitoring and tracking progress regarding project design schedule
Dimensions (Describe budget, staff, major authority levels, constraints)
- Retail/ Workplace projects are undertaken in some 22 countries annually with each Regional Design Manager to be located in region. Limited travel is required.
- Work within the Property Workplace standards, process and guidance on design production
- Design manager to cover the Asia region for the following activities:
- Ensure that all projects have a consistent delivery for brief, master planning and design
- Present on regular workplace design meeting weekly calls and Design approval forum as requested
- Reg vendor management alignment
- Sit on Virtual team for capital and major projects
Design Management
- Project Design Variations – Log, review and make recommendations with regard to individual project requests, where adopted; communicate routinely to share application knowledge.
- Standards Specials and Component Variations – as business needs evolve, provide continuous review of standards programme (both fit-to-purpose and applicable to diverse geographic need)
- Support and update workplace design regional office and retail tracker
- Support to update escalation list
- Attend GDDC and WSC – present and supporting information/ comments
About you:
- Diploma / University Degree in Architectural / Interior Design, or equivalent
- At least 10 years relevant experience in fitting out / decoration project design and site management
- At least 5 years relevant experience in supervising a team of Draftsmen / Designers.
- AUTOCAD, MS Office, 3D Max, Photoshop, Illustrator and In-Design etc assuring good computer graphic presentation skills
- Experience in retail / commercial office design is essential, with multinational corporate exposure an advantage
- Fluency in written and spoken English is required and Chinese, Korean or other Asian, Indian or Arabic language considered an advantage
Why join Cushman & Wakefield?
As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from;
- Being part of a growing global company;
- Career development and a promote from within culture;
- An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion
- We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.
We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.
We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.
That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status. We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.
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