Design Project Manager - Food Spaces

Job ID

194819

Posted

21-Nov-2024

Role type

Full-time

Areas of Interest

Design

Location(s)

Bengaluru - Karnataka - India

The Food Design team is responsible for creating food spaces in our Client’s offices that promote collaboration, engage and energize employees throughout each day. The team works with a variety of vendors to provide great service, delicious food and innovative food experiences. As a Design Project Manager for Food Spaces you work as part of a regional food design team to develop design solutions that meet the client brief and create great spaces for the employees. The design, layout and experience of eating should promote healthy habits and social serendipity. Our food venues need to support the healthiest, happiest workforce and you will help to ensure everything gets done by the right people at the right time to bring these venues to life.

Responsibilities:

● Develop project briefs that are scoped sufficiently to the building dynamics to accommodate the food programme requirements, making sure design partners are fully briefed to the food space requirements.

● Support on development and design of food spaces in India; make sure all team members are engaged in each appropriate project phase; maintain and distribute necessary documentation to keep project phasing on track.

● Support the management of the different work streams which need to simultaneously occur in order to bring the food venues to life. These work streams include, but are not limited to, space planning, concept development, design development, project turnover, change and opening processes.

● Assist with the management of all required documents, including reporting and data management tools, design templates etc.

● Guide design teams on how to best create engaging and exciting food spaces to deliver unique experiences for our users including collecting and sharing best practices across multiple projects concurrently.

● Track all details of the design, schedule and budget of each project and be able to communicate potential pain points to the Regional Design Project Manager, the broader food team and project teams.

● Understand and identify the unique complexities of each project early on in the process in order to objectively identify the most capable resources, specifically but not limited to restaurant/cafe designer and food service equipment consultant.

● Act as the liaison to the Client Food team on all construction projects contacting and engaging the appropriate members in each project phase, managing the process, and ensuring all budgets are maintained.

● Manage final sign-off for all milestone project phases from block planning to project completion including schematic design, and design development, as well as mid and final review of all finishes and FF&E items are met to maintain schedule.

● Be able to travel within the country and go on construction sites / walk through food spaces at the end of construction/fit out to understand & identify any potential issues or snags.

● Project snagging during construction and timely follow up to ensure successful handover.

● Support the diligence of new projects.

● Value engineering solutions that drive efficiencies in cost, operations and time.

● Contribute to capital planning for the region and seek approval from the Design partner.

Minimum qualifications:

● BA/BS degree in Project Management or Design (Architecture/Interior). In lieu of degree, 3-5 years relevant work experience.

● Minimum of 7 years of professional project management work with a focus on Food & Beverage spaces.

● Experience within food service or retail operations and flow either through direct experience or professional design work.

Preferred skills:

● Skilled in the visual, written and verbal communication of design issues with capability to think outside the box and bring creative, non-standard, and innovative solutions to the table.

● Ability to work in a collaborative and fast-paced environment with a great degree of self motivation and initiative.

● Proven vision, leadership and strategic skills to prioritize evolving initiatives in a fast-paced environment; able to turn ideas and capabilities into effective initiatives that engage users.

● Detail oriented with ability to think, plan, and execute on multiple projects in different phases simultaneously with little direct supervision.

● Understanding of permitting process, construction terminology and building systems, and overall project sequence and timing.

● Experience with food service operations and flow either through direct experience or professional design work.

CBRE, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer (Women/Minorities/Persons with Disabilities/US Veterans)