Director - Design Management (Healthcare)

Role Overview

Director - Design Management (Healthcare) at Qiddiya Investment Company. This role manages design across the healthcare portfolio within Healthcare & Education Assets throughout the full project lifecycle, from initial briefing through to final as-built documentation.

Role Purpose

Provide authoritative oversight of Lead Design Consultants and conduct rigorous technical reviews to ensure all design outputs align with approved development briefs, operator requirements, and organisational objectives. Ensure designs comply with all relevant regulatory standards and guidelines, incorporate robust Safety in Design principles, deliver demonstrable value for money, and support high-quality, buildable, and operationally effective project outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Management

• Manage and direct the design consultant teams to ensure the design evolves in line with project requirements and the approved program.
• Confirm that all activities are carried out in accordance with contractual obligations.

Program and Scheduling

• Develop and manage all internal and external stakeholders in alignment with the approved program.
• Ensure milestone dates are met and project delivery remains on schedule.

Construction

• Ensure the design delivered by the Lead Design Consultant is fully buildable and safe to construct.
• Assess contractor-initiated design changes for viability, coordination, compliance with relevant standards and guidelines, and alignment with the project brief, operator requirements, and QIC expectations.

Procurement

• Develop the design consultant scope of works and input into Contractor scope of works where design responsibilities are applicable.
• Define project and technical requirements across all disciplines and align with approved procurement strategies.

Value Engineering

• Ensure the design is effectively managed to budget by identifying and evaluating value engineering opportunities.
• Maintain required performance criteria, specifications, design intent, buildability, quality outcomes, and full regulatory compliance.

Design Approvals

• Lead and manage the design approval process in accordance with QIC and project requirements.
• Ensure all necessary endorsements are secured from relevant internal and external stakeholders in a timely and coordinated manner.
• Oversee the integration of all approved design changes to maintain alignment with development briefs, regulatory obligations, and organisational objectives.
• Provide strong governance and oversight to ensure that the approval pathway is transparent, well documented, and effectively managed.

Risk Management

• Provide proactive leadership in identifying, assessing, and managing design-related risks.
• Ensure robust mitigation measures are implemented across compliance, coordination, program, quality, approvals, stakeholder engagement, and buildability.
• Ensure risks are systematically tracked, communicated, and resolved to support informed decision-making and deliver compliant, coordinated, and constructible design outcomes aligned with organizational objectives.

Safety in Design

• Lead, coordinate, and monitor all Safety in Design activities across the project lifecycle.
• Facilitate and track formal Safety in Design workshops to ensure design outputs meet required safety, operational, and quality standards for construction, operationalization, and maintenance.
• Provide strong governance to ensure Safety in Design inputs are fully integrated, documented, and actioned in alignment with organizational safety expectations and regulatory obligations.

Coordination

• Conduct technical reviews of the design provided by the design consultant team to ensure documents are fully coordinated across disciplines.
• Confirm scope is clearly identified and defined while aligning with project brief and performance specifications unique to healthcare facilities.

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure expectations are clearly communicated.
• Incorporate requirements into the design and provide timely direction.
• Secure all necessary approvals.

Compliance

• Execute all activities in accordance with QIC policies, processes, systems, and reporting requirements.
• Maintain the highest standards of organizational compliance.

Governance and Reporting

• Uphold robust governance frameworks ensuring adherence to all compliance, audit, and reporting obligations.
• Provide clear, accurate, and timely project reporting to executive stakeholders.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor qualification in Architecture, Building, Construction, Engineering, or Quantity Surveying.
• 15+ years of relevant professional working experience.
• Registered Engineer/Architect (optional).