Design Manager - Manner

Position Description

Position:
Design Manager

As The Manner Design Manager, you will work in partnership with our General Manager, Senior Executive team, and Corporate Design team in New York to deliver a diverse range of Interior Design and Creative initiatives for the property. The Manner SoHo is our flagship property for this new Lifestyle Brand, and you will have full responsibility for maintaining the staging of all public areas and outlets, guest rooms, suites, and special events, maintaining all finishing touches and Design elements that are in place, and maintaining our brand design ethos.

It is important that the design resonates with the local SoHo, NYC market and our brand DNA.

The ideal candidate has a background in and passion for hospitality, working with the team to deliver a detail and service-oriented experience at the property.

The Design Manager is hands on, implementing brand guidelines, overseeing important projects, and problem-solving operational needs that tie back to structural design, FF&E and OS&E, while ensuring Design concepts and interior schemes adhere to plan, timeline, and budget. On a day-to-day basis, you will support the Hotel, Restaurants and Bars with approved scopes of work, requests for proposals, project schedules related to renovation and FF&E projects and be the point of contact for all hotel design projects.

You’ll work closely with our senior Engineering teams to assist departments in overseeing and ensuring the accurate production of bid/construction sets and that the documents are completed in a timely manner, including needed permits, and that design and construction documents meet all requirements. Once project plans are approved you will coordinate orders and delivery with vendors and suppliers to ensure the seamless delivery of the project so there is minimal impact to the Hotel operation.

An important part of your role is the continual upkeep of the overall Design ethos of all guest spaces with regard to furniture layouts and room set-ups to ensure this remains consistent and that all colleagues are familiar with the specific design concepts and staging related to their areas so that daily checks are conducted by the team to review the set-up of all restaurants, bars and public areas to ensure that they are set to standard and that any special seasonal themes or activations are in place.

You’ll take ownership of all seasonal activations, such as holiday and New Year through the design and proposal of various schemes to the GM so that these are agreed in advance and are planned accordingly within realistic time frames via an annual calendar. In conjunction with the Events Manager and Marketing, undertake, design and stage all aspects of any key special events requirements on the behalf of clients and guests to apply bespoke ‘Finishing touches’ to guest events.

• Responsible for assisting the Regional Design Manager with design development, processing and follow through of all FF&E, remodel, repair and maintenance projects.
• Interact with departments and vendors to ensure all requests are being completed satisfactorily and in a timely manner.
• Coordinate all approved projects with selected departments and vendors. Ensure that all necessary communications are handled in a proactive and professional manner.
• Assist departments with the preparation of scopes of work, requests for proposals, project schedules related to renovation and FF&E projects.
• Assist departments in overseeing and ensuring the accurate production of bid/construction sets and that the documents are completed in a timely manner, including needed permits, ensuring that design and construction documents meet all requirements.
• Review all bids, proposals and invoices to ensure proper budget and payment.
• Work with Regional Design Manager on design requests and projects that require approval of FF&E funds.
• Assist Regional Design Manager in ensuring that all information necessary to prepare and distribute the project documents has been assimilated and that the documents are distributed accurately and on time with construction schedules and…