designer

designer Leicester, England

Dunelm
Full Time Leicester, England 32594 - 25600 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

We’re the UK's number one choice for homewares – we’re ambitious about our brand, about being a good company, and about profitable growth.

With 13 million active customers in the last 12 months, we offer over 50,000 products, including our own Dorma and Fogarty brands, across 170+ stores. We operate the UK’s largest Made to Measure factory for curtains and roman blinds. We’re also developing products to help customers live more sustainably by introducing new materials and circular design and broadening our Conscious Choice product lines.

Our purpose is ‘to help create the joy of truly feeling at home, for now and for generations to come.’ We have three ambitions: ‘ambitious about our brand’, ambitious about being a good company’, and ‘ambitious about profitable growth’. We’re focused on growing as the number one choice for home, furniture and more, loved by our customers shopping more frequently in a fast-moving, post-pandemic environment.

Design Team

Design are responsible for the design and development of exciting new product ranges to drive sales and wow our customers with sustainability and circular design at its heart. They continually research new trends in product design, consumer lifestyle, colour forecasting and new materials. They produce the creative direction for all categories each season which are then incorporated into department strategies.

Role Summary:

We are a hugely collaborative team of designers, each striving to create collections and ranges that co-ordinate perfectly together in the home.

With a love of all thing’s textiles, pattern and colour, this role will assist both the textiles and hard good teams on print and pattern and woven fabric development.

What this role requires of you:

A varied and creative role, responsibilities will cover the following:

  • Work directly with the design team on the generation of pattern across departments.
  • Work closely with the Window and Upholstery designer on the construction and briefing of new seasonal fabric developments.
  • Work alongside the studio team to organise swatches, samples, and artwork printouts for meetings throughout the season.
  • Input ideas into seasonal and promotions trend packs, including the formatting of the packs themselves.
  • Help with creative administration such as pulling together trend packs, collating notes, updating display boards and sample postage.
  • Keep up to date with competition and conduct thorough inspirational research and present this to the line manager.
  • Assist the studio team in stock checking and ordering of stationary for the design area.

Essential skills:

  • A creative eye with a real passion for design and homewares.
  • An exciting portfolio demonstrating curated research, creative colour sense and original print and pattern work.
  • Highly organised, with clear ability to be able to prioritise workload.
  • Good attention to detail.
  • Curiosity and willing to listen and learn.
  • Proficient in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
  • Microsoft toolset (Office, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Teams)
PLEASE ATTACH YOUR PORTFOLIO TO YOUR CV OR EMAIL TO [email protected]

Dunelm is committed to becoming a fully inclusive business that is representative of our customers and locations.
We recognise the value in diversity and welcome applications from all candidates regardless of sex, age, race,religion, ability, gender or sexual identity, socio-economic background or education.
We are committed to making Dunelm a place where everyone can enjoy a successful career and have systemsin place to support all our staff.
We are seeking applications from candidates who share our values and celebrate diversity in all its forms.

designer
Dunelm

www.dunelmcareers.com
Leicester, United Kingdom
Nick Wilkinson
$2 to $5 billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Home Furniture & Housewares Stores
1979
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