Head, Designs and Product Development at Asset & Resource Management Holding Company

Asset & Resource Management Holding Company – Established in 1994 as an asset management firm, ARM offers wealth creation opportunities through a unique blend of traditional asset management and alternative investment services. We enable businesses to thrive, and help our clients to maximize their returns and realise their most important goals.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head, Designs and Product Development

Location: Nigeria

Job Description

Ensure quality design and construction is of a consistent high quality across the Mixta Projects.

Duties and Responsibilities

Detail the design and quality criteria that each country is expected to adhere to.
Create new project design concepts and coordinate with different units to ensure the concepts are executable – financially and technically.
Periodically audit construction sites to ensure that criteria is being upheld.
Organise, co-ordinate and control acceptance of completed construction items from supervisory adviser as per current regulations and processes of countries where the company operates.
Co-ordinate with Design and Construction team to resolve any design issue arising during construction.
Publish frequent reports for the senior management identifying major progress, quality and cost issues impacting the project.
Conduct regular project review based on pre-defined review architecture, including setting up relevant templates for review by the design team b) No. of issues raised by operations/sales team during the handover process (15%).
Violation to design quality: Number of quality non-conformance reports issues by construction team of irregularity with design plan (15%).
Violations to safety: No. of safety incidents which occurred on site during the year including a) near misses b) accidents c) fatal accidents (15%).
Adherence to budget– variance between actual and budget of function should not be greater than 15% (5%).
Number of days of trainings conducted on standardisation and compliance (10%).
Quality of training conducted on standardisation and compliance (10%).
Timeliness of deliverables – Percentage of deliverables that are delivered to the target audience as per the agreed deadlines (5%)
Quality of deliverables – Percentage of deliverables that meet or exceed expectation (5%)

Requirements
Education and Experience:

Undergraduate and master’s degree or equivalent in construction, environmental design or architecture
Prior experience of managing multiple large construction and design projects
Minimum of 12 years’ cognate experience in an architectural firm or real estate company in similar role

Key Skills:

Sound understanding and interpretation of drawings.
Knowledge of key processes and phases in construction (Structure, M&E, Finishing)
Deep understanding of corporate functions like procurement and contracting, budget and planning, and de-bottlenecking other corporate processes.
History of strong leadership and proven track record for timely project delivery, management and cost control.
Sound knowledge in design, detailing, regulation and project implementation processes.
Proficient in creating and understanding a planning schedule and work break down structure.
Very detailed knowledge of material, equipment, logistics, storage and security.
Good communication skills, both verbal and oral.
Strong ability to motivate, influence, negotiate and manage contractors.
Good interpersonal skills, effective coordination across firm leadership and ability to work with consultants and peers to review, direct and critique design proposals.
Gathers information nationally and internationally about what could be; visualises the future and assesses what needs to change; thinks strategically, considers wider effects thoroughly, including customers, shareholders and people; promotes and builds enthusiasm for the vision.
Balances the needs of the stakeholder triangle; assimilates and analyses relevant information; identifies core principles, and applies them consistently to decisions; identifies and mitigates risks; creative in providing solutions; owns decisions.
Outstanding people leadership and management skills. Ability to drive change management across the organization.
Sets milestones and timeframes to achieve objectives and operational requirements; determines priorities and allocates responsibilities and manages workflow; establishes measures and monitoring systems; monitors unit and individual performance, putting (joint) action plans in place to address areas of non-compliance; anticipates hurdles and has contingency plans to get around them.