Senior Design Manager; Maternity Cover

To drive and deliver world class environments in all Selfridges’ stores through innovative strategic planning and highly professional design management, creating outstanding and innovative environments and experiences. To manage internal communication both internally, and with external consultants while keeping key stake holders up to date. The Senior Design Manager will be a role model and ambassador for living the Selfridges values which will help in the management and development of their team.

The Senior Design Manager will lead and drive change to continue to evolve Selfridges unique retail environments

To support the Property Design Director, the Selfridges Executive team and the business in general in all Strategic Planning and Design related matters to deliver best in class solutions for all stores by:

• Informing, developing and implementing the Strategic Masterplans and the associated Design Guidelines
• Ensuring the effective Design Management of all projects through the entire design, development and delivery process
• Managing project requests from B&M taking them through feasibility studies where appropriate
• Overseeing the development and maintenance of digital drawing data for all Selfridges’ sites
• Effectively managing the internal and external design teams
• Oversee and responsibility for the design delivery of categories dependant on scale, and manage team workflow and allocation
• Manage and lead the Design Managers and Coordinators, through motivating, inspiring and mentoring the team

• Work with the Lead Design Manager and Design Planning teams to aid in developing and delivering strategic retail Masterplan briefs and feasibilities for all stores
  • Lead presentations up to Exec level to drive decision making and support in unlocking change for future projects
  • Produce planning and delivery sequence and timeline
  • Assist in producing high level budget cost to support capital planning
  • Monitor competitors, and carry out industry research
• Manage collation and production of strategic design guidelines, compartment design guidelines, project specific design guidelines and creation of temporary guidelines for refresh projects ensuring alignment throughout
• Manage projects up to complex flagship brands with full strip out and build
• Manage relevant design team members, with strong leadership and ownership skills

• Lead for a number of high profile category projects, managing directly key category projects, with allocated projects delegated to design team
• Run and lead a Masterplan scale project with full project team, and multiple business stakeholders
• Coordinate production of retail briefs for all projects and ensure alignment with proposed plans
• Lead brand design briefings as required, chaired by Project Manager
• Manage the approval of brand shopfit projects through concept and detailed design stages.
  • Manage business feedback and approval
  • Presentation of proposals to the Board for approval
  • Ensure projects adhere to Selfridges’ Masterplan and Store Guidelines
• Ensure timely and sufficient design information is passed to Project Manager’s for the delivery phase
• Work closely with the project management team to ensure design integrity is maintained at each stage of the design and delivery process
• Participate in post-project reviews and design analysis
• Manage creative consultants to ensure design solutions are developed in line with agreed cost parameters and project programmes
• Ensure designs meet or exceed defined quality standards and compliance with requirements of legislation and/or external authorities
• Ensure internal design approvals and financial sanctions are obtained at appropriate stages
• Encourage design innovation and creativity.

• First point of contact for B&M on all new project requests
• Carry out design feasibility studies with support from the delivery team (when appropriate)
• Manage the planning and feasibility process for upcoming strategic projects, taking them to business approval, producing planning layouts, budget cost and draft timeline (with support from the delivery team)
• Support shortlisting of architects for…