Senior Interior Designer

Harrison. Royal Sutton Coldfield, England, United Kingdom

Help us take hospitality and leisure experiences to the next level.

Hospitality, F&B and leisure design experts, Harrison, are evolving into a true brand, architecture and interior experience provider. That means we're developing a dynamic brand design team, based in Sutton Coldfield, creating fully integrated, engaging brand worlds in a fast-paced and exciting sector.

Working on exciting new concepts for clients like Imago Venues, Hilton and Hickory's. This is a 'next step' opportunity for an experienced senior interior design lead – somebody passionate about hospitality – ambitious to take their career to the next level. You will help to forge a team of specialist hospitality brand designers into industry leaders from the ground up. That means starting 'hands-on' with agility, and then managing growth.

Harrison is an industry leading, creatively driven agency. Passionate. Provocative. An independent company obsessed with crafting beautiful, engaging stories which add character and bring brands to life.

Harrison takes pride in creating a warm, nurturing and inclusive working environment with a family feel – coupled with a strong international presence and global clients. The Senior Interior Designer will work closely with Harrison's Creative Brand Director and Design Directors.

Job brief

We are looking for a confident, experienced Senior Interior Designer to provide the creative team with guidance, inspiration and strategic direction to launch new impressive, commercially successful projects, as well as working strategically with existing clients to evolve and develop their interiors. You will devise strategically driven interior concepts for a particular venture, allocate/schedule required resources to bring your creative vision to life and monitor and direct its progress through to completion.

Our goal is to achieve the best possible outcome for our projects both creatively and commercially, meeting customer and other stakeholder expectations, whilst driving Harrison's sustainable growth.

Responsibilities

• Conceiving and implementing new concepts, guidelines and strategies in various creative projects and overseeing them to completion.
• Collaborating with the wider Harrison creative teams to obtain knowledge of the clients' requirements and ensure full integration between design disciplines.
• Directing and motivating teams of interior designers to help them use their talents effectively.
• Lead brainstorming/creative sessions to generate ideas.
• Act as a responsive/proactive senior point of contact with clients, building client confidence and satisfaction.
• Write and design unique and well-crafted design solutions that meet our clients' needs as well as our own.
• Step into a senior design role where required in order to meet client's expectations.
• Revise content and presentations, approve/reject ideas, utilize new technologies such as AI and provide feedback to the team.
• Guide and train team members on their journey to becoming accomplished professionals.
• Monitor results of the team skills & competencies and propose actions for the future.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a senior interior designer or a similar creative role.
• Minimum of 10 years experience working in the hospitality sector.
• This is a Birmingham based role.
• Hand-on experience of the full creative process, developing brands and interiors across international markets.
• Excellent knowledge of industry standard software: - Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign.
• Outstanding leadership and organisational skills.
• A strong network of industry contacts.
• Exemplary interpersonal and analytical abilities.
• Graduate level qualification in Interior Design, equivalent in a relevant field.
• Postgraduate qualifications will be considered an asset.
• An eye-catching portfolio demonstrating new concept expertise in the hospitality and leisure sector.

Please forward your CV and a covering letter to kgrima@weareharrison.com

No Agencies please.

Mid-Senior level

Full-time

Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

Design Services