- Attending, hosting or coordinating department meetings
- Ensuring that the design work is of sufficient quality and that all directives are being followed
- Collaborating with your own team and with other departments to achieve design goals
- Working to meet the expectations of the customer or client
- Delegating work where necessary and reviewing that work when it has been completed
- Creating creative ideas and designs and putting them into a context that the rest of the team and the client/customer can understand
- Developing a budget and analysing that budget regularly to ensure it remains tenable
- Mentoring and guiding team members and motivating them to achieve their goals and yours
- Conducting team training on developments within the design world or new business guidelines