- 10% store discount at all our retail stores
MyHB colleague benefits platform with access to:
- Discounts UK wide on retail, leisure, hospitality venues
- Employee Assistance Programme with 24/7 confidential counselling and advice line
- Low-cost voluntary insured health cash plans and cancer cover
Job Introduction
Are you an experienced design professional with a passion for retail and leading creative teams?
We're looking for a Senior Homeware Designer to join our in-house design studio. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping our visual identity across a key product category, ensuring every design is on trend, commercially focused and fully compliant.
As a Senior Designer, you will lead a team of designers within the homeware category, delivering standout designs and artwork that resonate with our customers. Reporting to the Design Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the end-to-end design process, managing the critical path to ensure timely delivery of all creative assets.
Job Overview
- Lead a team of designers within a key product category.
- Manage the end-to-end design process, ensuring timely delivery of all artwork and creative assets.
- Plan and maintain the design schedule in collaboration with the Design Manager and Category teams.
- Oversee the creation, review, and sign-off of sample artwork and prototypes for products and packaging.
- Ensure all designs are visually appealing, on trend, and compliant with branding, licensing, and regulatory requirements.
- Develop artwork for production in line with style guides and category plans.
- Conduct market research, trend forecasting, including competitor reviews and trade show visits, to inform design direction.
- Set clear objectives and KPIs for your team, regularly reviewing performance and implementing improvements.
- Foster a culture of creativity, innovation, and continuous improvement within the design function.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders including Category Managers, Buyers, Product Approval Specialists, and external suppliers.
- Recommend and implement process improvements to enhance the efficiency and quality of the design team’s output.
- A degree in design or equivalent professional experience.
- Proven experience managing a team of design professionals.
- Strong knowledge of retail product design within a homeware category area.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite.
- Demonstrable experience of developing artwork for production, including packaging.
- A strong understanding of branding, compliance, and licensing in a retail context.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- A customer-first mindset, commercially aware with a drive for creative excellence.
- Surface pattern and hand paint skills would be advantageous.
- A proactive approach to innovation and continuous improvement.
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