Retail Designer

Are you a Retail Designer / 3D Designer / Interior Designer looking for an exciting and unique opportunity to work in Cruise Retail?

Can you take concept work all the way through to reality, including building models in SketchUp and creating renders?

Do you want to work in a role that gives you an opportunity to work across the entire design process?

If so, our Retail Designer vacancy here at Harding+ could be the perfect opportunity for you!

About the role:

You'll assist the Senior Design Manager in creating highly dynamic and commercial stores onboard cruise ships. The designs will showcase the latest global brands in an innovative retail setting, focused on capturing the customer imagination and aspiration. This will drive guest footfall to maximize sales and optimise the revenue return per SQM.

The role is based in Avonmouth on a hybrid working basis 3 days per week along with national/international travel as required.

Compensation - competitive salary, bonus scheme, pension, 4 x life assurance, healthcare cash plan, 25 days leave annually (including Christmas shutdown).

What you’ll be doing:

• Take a brief and develop a truly aspirational, aesthetically pleasing and functionally designed solution that maximises revenue
• Design furniture and retail spaces that fulfil the brief within the set budget and constraints, being mindful of the ergonomic elements to all design practices
• Create designs being respectful of current retail trends and technology
• Create clear and concise design specifications using InDesign
• Complete design projects on time to tight deadlines set by the Senior Designer
• Working with sales data to plan and optimise space on a macro level
• Establish good communication channels with brands when working on relevant projects
• Work under pressure in a team environment and under your own initiative, putting in the hours required
• General administrative work as required
  
  

About you:

• Graduate in a design field combined with relevant work experience (ideally in retail design)
• Highly creative with a keen eye for detail
• Fully trained in MS office, Adobe Photoshop, and InDesign as well as AutoCAD and SketchUp Pro (exposure to Lumion would be highly desirable)
• Ability to produce technical drawing sets and finished renderings
• Strong awareness of the current trends and influences in the retail design market would be advantageous
• Commercially astute, making design decisions to maximise revenue return through innovative design
• Strong project management skills: organised and punctual, you’ll manage multiple projects concurrently and manage own time working within strict time constraints
• Good communication skills, able to listen und understand what the brief requires as well as strong presentation skills
• Must have a full UK driving licence and an existing right of eligibility to work in the UK
  
  

Key Attributes - trust, collaboration, respect, passion, drive, resilience.

About us:

Harding+ is leading the way in innovative onboard cruise retailing, working closely with our cruise line partners and brand partners to ‘make every cruise better’. We stay at the forefront of retailing and consistently provide outstanding customer service, culminating in winning the Cruise Retailer of the Year award for 2022 and 2023.

Harding+ is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Harding+.