Director of Design & Planning/ Design Director

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Job Description For Director of Design & Planning/ Design Director

Description

Position Summary

The Director of Design & Planning/ Design Director will be responsible to the RVP/ VP Design Services for the execution of Technical Services within the assigned division maintaining product and brand standards as well as the integrity of Hyatt's Design Standards.
In addition, he/ she will be responsible to ensure that the Design Services Division is operated with compliance and integrity. Full support and cooperation will be exercised with Development, Legal, Owners, External Consultants and Corporate / Regional specialists to positively contribute, in the spirit of collaboration, to the growth objectives of the company.

Management and Leadership

Change Management -Generates activity and seeks new challenges to improve work performance;
demonstrate an optimistic outlook and recovers quickly from failure.
Commercial Awareness -Shows awareness of markets and ensures up-to-date knowledge of competitive environment; demonstrate an awareness of new business opportunities and seizes and acts upon them.
Decision Making -Makes sound decision quickly under pressure; Takes calculated risks based on adequate information and analysis; makes rational, balanced judgments on the basis of available information.
Managing the Work of Others-Works with an orientation to the future; Sets clear, appropriate, and well defined, quality objectives for the team. Encourages others to comply with legal and personal obligations.
Motivating and Influencing Others -Creates a climate of teamwork by encouraging harmony, cooperation and communication; Cares for others by monitoring their well-being; Inspires a positive attitude to work among subordinates and persuades others so that they can adjust their positions and readily gains agreement and support from others; Respects the contributions of others.

Organization Savvy -Maintains awareness of organizational structure and goals; accurately identifies and effectively presents the key points of an argument; Promotes ideas; Establishes links with people within and outside the business and uses this network for the organization's advantage.
People Development -Reconciles conflict and probes for information for more in-depth relevant information for decision-making; Analyzes numerical data and relevant sources of information in order to draw appropriate conclusions and check facts to establish causes and effects; produces new ideas and a range of solutions to meet the demands of the situation.
Strategic Orientation -Selects the most appropriate tactic(s) from a range of alternatives and conveys the plan to others; sets organizational strategy in line with organizational vision and uses multiple, relevant resources to achieve objectives; negotiates with a variety of approaches.

Design Services

• Work with Hyatt Operations and Openings and Transitions team as well as the Owner's Consultants during the whole design process with the purpose of safeguarding the Owner's interests and the Hyatt Brand Standards.
• Work with the internal DS team to service projects and produce the various Key Documents of DS.
• To prepare and update Preliminary Area Programs (a spatial requirement document).
• Evaluate and produce desk top reviews for potential projects including rudimentary or conceptual sketch designs to assess their viability.
• When required, attend coordination meetings and represent Hyatt Design Services.
• To produce written documents and sketch/Cad drawings in order to communicate effectively with the Owner's Consultants.
• Provide guidance on the implementation of Hyatt Global Technical Standards.
• To assist the Owners' design consultants on any initial space planning and conceptual design.
• To review the drawings and specifications submitted by the various design consultants.
• To attend kick off meeting as required in their respective regional office.
• To assist in BOH planning, information and coordinate with the Owner's consultants for incorporation into the drawing set.

• To assume responsibility for the cost-effective operation of the Design Services Department.
• To assist in the collection of Technical Service fees.

• Architectural Design Degree -Bachelor's Degree or Foreign equivalent.
• Minimum of 10+ years of post graduate hotel project experience in the Architectural field with experience in all phases of the design process. Ideally the candidate would have strong hand sketching abilities, detail design experience and on-site experience providing guidance to Owners, Contractors, and Consultants regarding the implementation of the companies global technical standards. Hotel technical services experience is essential.
• Excellent communication channels are to be maintained with RVP Design Services and
• Vice President of Design Services.
• Track record managing others and/ or teams within their current or past roles.
• Must be prepared to travel in their respective region.
• Must be fluent in English and Mandarin.
• Microsoft Office (word, excel and Power Point) skills are required. Data management and Autocadsystems experience a plus.