Building Design

6 months ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Coop Full time

**Building Design and Innovation Lead**
£45,000 - £55,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 5)
Manchester city centre (hybrid working) (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy)

12-month secondment/fixed term contract (maternity leave cover)

We’re looking for a motivated Building Design and Innovation Lead to help us to lead, maintain, govern and continually improve business unit design standards for Co-op. In this role, we’ll look to you to align strategic change initiatives into property design standards. It’s an exciting opportunity for you to have a real impact on the look and feel of our Co-op property, and to gain fantastic exposure across the wider Property team.

**What you’ll do**
- Govern change initiatives across Co-op Property, making sure our construction methods and design specifications are fit for purpose
- Control trials within Property model governance forums, and support business case submissions, helping to change model design and technical standards into Property delivery workstreams
- Take a lead on identifying opportunities to drive commercial opportunity and reduce costs associated with change initiatives
- Make sure that change impacts are communicated into Food and Funeralcare Property Finance governance forums
- Be accountable for creating design manuals
- Optimise design details and processes for creating and maintaining the Co-op estate
- Create solutions to innovate and drive change in our design processes
- Manage and deliver change initiatives, trials, concepts and new projects

**This role would suit people who have**
- A background in design
- A good understanding of our Co-op stores
- Great communication skills and the confidence to influence others
- Project management experience
- Strong commercial acumen
- Great presentation skills with the ability to create engaging presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint

**Why Co-op?**

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).
- An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
- A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- Private healthcare
- Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
- Coaching and training to support your career development
- Wagestream app - giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn
- YuLife app - rewarding you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

**Building a diverse environment**

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing



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