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Senior Design Manager- Residential

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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Scentre Group (Owner of Westfield destinations in Aus and NZ) Full time

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The Development, Design & Construction (DD&C) team brings our strategic vision to life by shaping, building and delivering our assets. From early-stage planning and design through to construction and handover, the team creates high-quality, sustainable, and innovative spaces that enhance the experience for our customers, retailers, and communities. DD&C ensures that our centres continue to evolve, stay relevant, and drive long-term value for the business.

Day-to-day you will be responsible for:

As a Senior Design Manager, you'll lead consultant teams to deliver concept designs for Authority Approvals—making sure every drawing and dossier reflects our project vision, meets regulatory requirements and hits our commercial goals. You'll also own the design journey for our large-scale residential builds from concept through pre-construction. By shaping standout, compliant designs and guiding our partners, you'll help us unlock value, satisfy regulators, and set the stage for smooth delivery.

  • Lead full end-to-end design for high-rise, mixed-use, and/or BTR residential projects using your Class 2 residential expertise, together with your strong understanding of rezonings, planning controls local authority requirements and design excellence principles.
  • Draft and manage architectural briefs that balance vision, market fit and planning rules.
  • Review and refine consultant deliverables—ensuring quality, feasibility and budget alignment.
  • Guide the hand-over of design into early delivery, maintaining intent through construction setup
  • Plan design milestones and resource needs across multiple projects.
  • Lead the engagement and management of external design consultants, including architects, planners, and specialist advisors, as well as regulatory bodies.
  • Chair design coordination forums—setting agendas, driving clear actions and tracking progress.
  • Collaborate daily with Development, Construction and Engineering teams to keep everyone on the same page, navigate any challenges, and maintain alignment.
  • Navigate complex approval pathways—liaising with councils, state authorities and specialist advisors.

You will be someone who:

  • Plans design milestones and resource needs across multiple projects.
  • Leads the engagement and management of external design consultants, including architects, planners, and specialist advisors, as well as regulatory bodies.
  • Chairs design coordination forums—setting agendas, driving clear actions and tracking progress.
  • Collaborates daily with Development, Construction and Engineering teams to keep everyone on the same page, navigate any challenges, and maintain alignment.
  • Navigates complex approval pathways—liaising with councils, state authorities and specialist advisors.
  • Thinks big-picture: use market and site insights to steer concept direction and innovation.
  • Anticipates design risks—whether regulatory, technical or budgetary—and propose clear mitigation.
  • Blends commercial and creative thinking to deliver designs that impress and perform.

About us

Scentre Group owns 42 Westfield destinations across Australia and New Zealand. We create extraordinary places and experiences that connect and enrich communities.

We are focused on our customers and creating more reasons for more people to visit our Westfield destinations more often and for longer.

With approximately 75 professions within our business, our team has the expertise to design, construct, operate, manage and market our Westfield destinations and platforms.

We want to be the place where talent thrives. To support you thriving with us, we promise to respect, inspire and develop you, and that you will do work that matters.

Diversity, equity and inclusion underpins our culture, and our vision is that 'Everyone Belongs'. We foster a workplace experience where everyone feels valued, supported and motivated to realise their full potential.

We aspire to create a workforce reflective of the communities in which we operate and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, cultural background, faith, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or life stage.

We offer a range of unique benefits designed to support your wellbeing, career development and lifestyle, including five days paid Life Leave on top of your four weeks annual leave (pro-rated for part-time), 18 weeks gender neutral paid parental leave for primary carers, with no qualifying period and super paid for the duration of the leave period and free parking at your local Westfield destination.

Discover more aboutworking with us.

Applications close:Friday 22 nd August (unless filled prior).

Seniority level
  • Seniority levelMid-Senior level
Employment type
  • Employment typeFull-time
Job function
  • Job functionDesign
  • IndustriesDesign Services and Real Estate

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