Junior Retail Designer

FOOTASYLUM; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job description

Description

We are looking for a Junior Retail Designer, who will be responsible for the design & manufacture of fixtures, fittings & equipment to be used within our retail spaces.

This role includes design development, technical development & prototyping.

The Team

The Property Development team play a lead role to the overall delivery of our new store & store upgrade programme.

We are passionate about your development, and we are keen for you to learn new skills. Footasylum will enable you to gain experience in areas you feel passionate about plus excel in confidence in your working practices. You will be encouraged and supported through your projects by the team and the wider business.

About You

The successful candidate will ideally have some previous experience within retail.

• A creative background with experience in a retail environment (inc. retail sales).
• You will have a keen eye for retail & have the ability to bring new ideas to the business to keep the store concept developing.
• Knowledge for what it takes to design FF&E for retail.
• Basic understanding of manufacture processes & prototyping.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD, Sketchup or other design software.
• Experience working in 3D visual software such as SketchUp (or similar).
• Able to work in Adobe Software such as Illustrator & InDesign.

Responsibilities

• You will be working with a brief to deliver technical drawings of in store components to external suppliers for prototyping.
• You will create new, bespoke joinery, upholstered furniture & custom metalwork fixtures for use in retail spaces alongside our Marketing & Visual Merchandising teams.
• You will value engineering existing in store fixtures, fittings & furniture.
• You will offer input to creative meetings.
• You will build lighting, design & furniture packs relating to individual projects.
• You will work alongside our implementation designer on new store projects as well as the development team on small works projects.
• You will provide visual renders of any fixturing & store concept ideas which could be presented internally & externally.
• You will create bespoke design packs to company guidelines.

Why Footasylum?

We are one of the leading omni-channel retailers across the UK, but more than that we are a brilliant place to work. We value you and your development. We have loads of examples of people moving upwards, across to other departments and given training to excel their personal and professional skills.

Our aim is to create a fun environment, where your success is paramount to ours and you are given the right tools, support and platform to achieve your goals.

Diversity

We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are building products and services. We know that this will help us build useful and accessible things which our customers will love. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about designing happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences.

Recruitment Process

We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit we'll invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role, and to see if we're a good fit for you.

We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, giving you a chance to learn about what we are doing in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel that this is the opportunity for you.