Senior Designer - Furniture and Upholstery

About the role

Are you a Senior Furniture Designer looking for your next big opportunity? We're looking for a highly experienced and creative Furniture designer to join our team, designing and developing own brand products including cabinetry, freestanding furniture and upholstery.

Responsibilities

• Design:
• Create the individual category design strategy, ensuring it is aligned to the overall strategic direction and providing insight into your area of Own Brand products.
• Play a critical role in delivering product design that will form a coherent category assortment aligned to brand / sub brand guidelines and in service of our customers. You will focus on technically more complex products and/or lead the design of a more complex sub-category.
• Align to the Own Brand assortment strategy with a strong focus on understanding our customer and their evolving needs and desires to ensure that we deliver appropriate and relevant products. You will have high involvement in trend and forecasting.
• Recommend, prepare and present relevant and appropriate category trends through high quality research to the wider team.
• The role requires the application of a diverse set of skills to effectively bring design concepts to life. Candidates must demonstrate proficiency not only in traditional design and development techniques-such as drawing, painting, and model making-but also in the use of modern design
• The role requires you to effectively communicate the technical designs of your designs to suppliers and manufacturers for costing, prototyping and production.
• Stakeholder Management:
• Work collaboratively with all levels of Buying, Merchandising and the Technical team to co-create the briefs and deliver identified outcomes ensuring that these align with the brand guidelines.
• Build and maintain strong supplier relationships, including co-creating designs.
• Lead success-driven, cross-department working through effective stakeholder relationships. Lead through change.
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Requirements

• A versatile design 'handwriting' capable of adapting to multiple styles.
• Extensive experience in product development across various home furniture products.
• Exceptional research skills with a proven ability to identify key furniture trends and successfully translate them into commercial, market-ready products.
• As a Senior Furniture Designer, you will support the Leadership team in creating the individual category design strategy, ensuring it is aligned to the overall strategic direction and providing insight into your area of Own Brand products.
• Contract type - This position is a Permanent contract.
• Location - This role is based at our London Head Office campus in Pimlico. Please note, any cost incurred as a result of travel to the office is the responsibility of the successful candidate. There is no travel allowance for this role.

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