designer London, England
Job description
Job Description
Would you like to spend your day designing amazing LEGO Retail experiences across the world?
Core Responsibilities
A wonderful opportunity to deliver the best toy store experience in the world! The LEGO Retail brand is evolving and moving into the next phase of our expansion - as the new Retail Senior Design Manager, you'll bring creativity, real-world thinking and specialist store format understanding to drive this evolution and bring those ideas to life.
- Creative storyteller who can combine conceptualising & ideation with real-world retail solutions experience.
- Develop close relationships with a variety of teams to ensure store format strategy and segmentation is met with consistency & standardisation of approach.
- Take the lead on retail design, creative direction & intent, technical understanding and store-fit out deployment guidance within LEGO Retail Development.
- You need to be an all-in design thinker, familiarising yourself with the entire ecosystem of retail design – from architectural materiality & specifications, building requirement standards to signage and graphic installations.
Play your part in our team succeeding
This is a newly created role and a pivotal position within the Retail Concepts & Design team. You'll create impact across the LEGO Retail organisation and in doing so, delighting our customers around the world. This role will require a dynamic individual who is energised by creativity & passionate about retail.
As Retail Senior Design Manager, you'll be a leading voice in the retail design studio and the broader project-focused teams of operational drivers, marketeers, project managers, program managers and construction specialists.
Do you have what it takes?
- Experience designing store formats (retail concept ideation, in-store design and roll-outs) for a global retail brand - this could be in-house or with an Agency.
- A natural conceptualist with the ability to communicate through component drawing, sketching & mark-ups.
- Site experience and project coordination will be key - comfortable in manufacturing environment (joinery/shopfitting), have a working knowledge of Building Codes and Accessibility Standards and be able to interpret specifications and manufacturers cut sheets.
- Collaborate and coordinate with a variety of teammates: VPs, SVPs, marketeers, project teams, engineers, designers, consultants and contractors as needed.
- Proficient in VectorWorx, CAD Pack development, Adobe CS or related and Microsoft Office.
- Able to deliver VR digital experiences and AR/animation experiences, 3D modelling, SketchUP, AutoCAD + Cinema 4D would be beneficial.
- Willingness to travel (no more than 30 days per year).
What’s in it for you?
Here are some of what to expect:
- Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
- Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
- Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.
- Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
- Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
- Your workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. The hiring team will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model 'Best of Both', role eligibility and frequency with you during the recruitment process.
Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.
The LEGO Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.
The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.
Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.
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