Design Studio Manager

Full time at Alpin Limited in Saudi Arabia

Posted on January 7, 2025

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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 Responsibilities

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 development-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 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, brainstorming 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 experience.

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 requirements of the business.
Demonstrated track record of issues and decisions ownership & accountability.
Demonstrable analytical thinking and business insight.
Proactive problem averter-mitigator-solver.
Project Management expertise.
Ability to deliver high quality results on time/on budget in a fast-paced environment.
Outstanding leadership abilities; effective, empathic, fair, and inspiring.
Excellent Client-facing skills.
Clear, concise & confident communicator: oral, written and reports preparation.
Fluent in Arabic language both oral and written.
Proficient in English language both oral and written.
Experience recruiting, training, and managing employees, mentoring and initiating Knowledge transfer programs.
Proficient in all typical Microsoft Office Applications, MS Project, MS Visio, Adobe Acrobat.
Proficient in managing & engaging via MS Teams.

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Alpin Limited

Alpin Limited is a multidisciplinary sustainable cleantech consultancy based in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi.
The local team is composed of a diverse range of experts who lead their respective fields, including LEED APs, PQPs, official Estidama trainers, commissioning authorities (CxA), construction managers, MBAs, and building physics PhDs. We also have commissioning authorities and consultants based in Munich, London, New York City, and other prominent global locations.
Our current projects include: The Abu Dhabi midfield Terminal Building, The Msheireb urban redevelopment project, Johnson Controls Research Center, SKMC Dialysis Center, Sowwah Square Abu Dhabi and several other high profile projects in the EU and GCC.
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