Overview
Luxury high end hospitality studio in Central London are looking for a Senior Interior Designer. There is an urgent need for a creative senior designer with high level hospitality experience within hotel design, restaurant design or leisure projects. This role will be client facing with a strong emphasis on working with a team producing amazing cutting edge designs. You\'ll be working in the UK and internationally, with a small team to manage, run all the stages of design, client handling, FF&E and project management.
Responsibilities
* Act as the creative senior designer on hospitality projects across the studio overseeing output with the creative director from concept to completion
* Leading and inspiring the junior members of the team, problem-solving and mentoring
* Ensuring design output meets the brief and comes to life brilliantly and within budget
* Overseeing the creation of exciting concepts, developed design schemes, detailed technical design packs, specifications and tender documentation for sharing with clients and contractors (inputting your own design ideas)
* Doing hands-on concept and AutoCAD and hand-sketching, art directing CGIs, sourcing, procurement and putting together schemes and all other creative assets and project documentation relating to projects
* Leading site meetings and internal studio meetings with clients, suppliers and contractors, also mentoring others to do so
* Managing project budgets, estimates and reconciliations
* Training other team members in creativity, project leadership and client handling
Qualifications and skills
* A really exciting design portfolio across hospitality design both highly creative and technically strong
* Experience working in a client-facing capacity at a senior level in established, stylish design agencies
* Strong understanding of project set-up
* Evidence of successful experience running large-scale, stylish projects, specifically Hospitality & F&B
* Strong construction and onsite knowledge and experience
* Inventive, stylish sourcing and specifying of products, lighting, furniture and decorative finishes (FF&E)
* Proven experience working with fabricators and specialist suppliers and manufacturers to design and procure bespoke products and finishes
* Excellent organisation skills and proven ability working well under pressure
* Ability to prioritise and deliver projects within agreed budgets and timescales
* Excellent technical skills with a beady eye for detail
* Proficiency in AutoCAD (essential), same with InDesign, Photoshop, basic SketchUp and Microsoft Office/Excel
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Design
Industries
* Interior Design, Design Services, and Architecture and Planning
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