Design Manager

Company Overview Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

Job Category Engineering & Science Position Summary This position manages architectural due diligence and design across all Bridgestone Retail store formats, including new builds, remodels, and expansions. The role leads technical negotiations and document reviews with external developers and officials to produce construction contracts, while also driving cross-functional initiatives with internal teams (Marketing, Operations, EHSS, Real Estate). Ultimately, this position is responsible for project budget management, risk mitigation, and financial stewardship from inception to completion.

This role is a hybrid position (Tu-Th) based at the Nashville, TN headquarters.

Responsibilities Manage the A&E (architectural and engineering) conceptual design, due diligence, document development, and jurisdictional approval processes to establish and maintain project schedule integrity.

Continuously value engineering and monitoring designs and construction activities for conformity to project specifications.

Manage the flow of all A&E information between BSRO internal departments and various outside agencies, vendors, architects, engineers, developers, and landlords. associated with a project.

Ensure timely and accurate review of documents throughout the planning process for completeness, alignment with approved criteria, cost effectiveness and coordination of the A&E groups associated with each project.

Review the design and construction activities initiated by third parties (i.e., Developers, Co-Tenants, Sellers, Landlords, etc.) relative to sitework, utility installations, exterior elevation and entrance designs, structural elements, and similar which may affect an existing or proposed BSRO retail location. Responsible for ensuring conformance to current minimum site standards, providing creative design solutions, incorporating business and operations criteria into final design.

Coordinate activities related to jurisdictional code investigations, development of local approval documents, construction drawings and specifications, contractor and vendor bid packages including document management.

Manage internal development meetings to monitor performance of ongoing projects.

Select, train, and retain outside consultants and contractors capable of providing design and/or design build services across all Bridgestone Retail Operations LLC formats.

Coordinate and conduct asset evaluation survey and construction document turnover meetings with Construction Managers to ensure the smooth communication of information they may need to complete design and construction activities.

Assist in the negotiation of construction issues for the Real Estate Department and establish the terms, milestone schedules, criteria etc. incorporated as exhibits to various types of Agreements that include Milestone Schedules, Established Criteria, Definition of Work Responsibility, Detailed Scope of Work etc. as may be required for each Agreement.

Participate in the RPF process through contract execution for architects, engineers, and other design consultant services.

Develop and maintain a digital library of all design details, specifications, and prototypical drawings.

Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in architecture required; master’s degree in architecture preferred.

Minimum 10 years experience in the field of architecture with preferred experience in real estate design, planning, and  depth knowledge of all engineering disciplines; civil, structural, architectural, electrical,…