Hotel Design Manager - Acromas Shipping Ltd - London
As Hotel Design Manager, you’ll be expected to lead a small team that will play a key role in designing, developing and outfitting two new cruise ships to a world class standard. By owning and managing all hotel design aspects of this project, you’ll be integral to delivering a very high standard to our customers and key stakeholders. Reporting to the New Build Director, the role holder will be operating at a senior level within the business and will be critical to managing both internal and external relationships, ensuring the efficient and on time delivery of the project.
Requirements
- Prior experience of hotel design for cruise ships at a senior level
- Technical knowledge of cruise ship outfitting
- Knowledge of cruise ship hotel operations
- Experience of project management
- Supplier and stakeholder management experience
- Purchasing and buying experience
- Knowledge of relevant cruise ship construction Rules
Responsibilities
- Ownership and management of all aspects of the hotel design of the new build project
- Setting design direction in keeping with the ethos and standards of the Saga brand
- Creating design briefs to direct interior designers and consultants
- Setting technical and materials standards in respect of hotel design
- Contract management of designers and consultants
- Drawing review, development and approval
- Management of interiors and furnishings budgets
- Project resource planning and team management
- Project activity planning
- Definition and management of the entire interiors scope of supply
- Risk management: identification and controls
- Negotiation with shipyard and suppliers
- Gathering and interpreting the requirements of the ship owner’s operational teams and ensuring that those requirements are accomplished in the final design
- Reviewing architectural design specifications to ensure technical standards are met
- Driving value engineering activities ensuring that Saga brand standards and quality are not compromised in the process
- As needed and/or directed, making periodic inspections on site during the design process and installation of the project
- Building relationships with external design consultants, owners and all relevant Saga departments to ensure the advancement of the hotel design in a timely manner
- Offering guidance to design teams and New Build Director regarding advances within the industry including their availability and potential project application.
- Developing executing and managing contracts in accordance with divisional contracting policies and corporate guidelines
- Promoting the development of both internal and external resources to meet the changing new build project requirements.
The Individual
- Able to make things happen.
- Highly operationally focused and commercially astute.
- Able to drive change quickly.
- Collaborative team player who is resourceful and able to mobilise a team.
- Innovative and solutions orientated, very ‘can do’.
- Strength of conviction and ability to influence and negotiate.
- Courage to challenge and do things differently.
- Customer focussed and passionate about delivering to our customers and key stakeholders
- Good judgement and ability to create strong professional relationships at all levels. Able to work in a matrix structure where required.
- A natural leader with a desire to have a broad impact across the brand.
- Strong personal drive and alignment with Saga plc The Saga Way.
- Determination and resilient in approach with the ability to ‘find a way’.
- Exceptional planning and organisational skills.
Additional information
Foreign travel is a requirement of this role
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