Kitchen Designer

The Food Design team is responsible for creating food spaces in our Clients" offices that promote collaboration and engage & energize employees throughout each day. With more than 350 active cafes globally, the team works with a variety of vendors to provide great service, delicious food, and innovative food experiences. As a Food Design Manager - Food Spaces, you work as part of a regional food design team and support the development process that creates the spaces where employees interact with food. 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 help to ensure everything gets done by the right people at the right time to bring these venues to life. Responsibilities: Subject matter expertise in the design of the front of house food spaces and implementation of project-specific Food Program. Food Program planning with the project team. Design review of project deliverables after the project team review and implementation of guidelines. Overall project design coordination. Review of all the food spaces in a building like cafes, Kitchen, Break Spaces, etc., and provide comments on ID elements incorporating KDMs comments for all design stages. Support the Regional food design manager with the management of all required documents, including reporting and data management tools, design templates, New initiatives apart from projects, etc. Track all details of the design and schedule regionally, and be able to communicate potential pain points to the Client, the broader food team, and project teams. 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. Understand and identify the unique complexities of each project early on in the process to objectively identify the most capable resources, specifically but not limited to restaurant/ cafe designers and food service equipment consultants. Overview the 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 to maintain the 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. Coordinate and manage Operators" requirements. Manage the handover process, including any Day 2 requests. Minimum qualifications: BA/BS degree in Project Management or Design (Architecture/ Interior) (In lieu of degree, 10-12 years of relevant work experience). A minimum of 5-7 years of professional project management work with a focus on Food & Beverage spaces. Interested candidates can reach out to us at fiza.shaikh@cbre.com.,