Lead Retail Design Manager

Lead Retail Design Manager

We're looking for a talented individual to join our Retail Design Team as the Lead Retail Design Manager in a vibrant and fast‑paced environment.

• Manage design reviews, collaborating with retailers’ design teams to ensure clear understanding of requirements and compliance with Westfield’s design guidelines.
• Validate concept and detail design drawings to ensure compliance with Westfield’s design criteria and site‑specific requirements, while confirming all validations are completed in a timely manner.
• Assist the leasing team to attract, engage and inspire prospective new brands by developing and delivering imaginative, highly creative, visually impactful presentations that showcase the full potential of each opportunity.
• Ensure tenant fit‑out designs fully comply with the latest Westfield design guidelines and high‑quality standards.
• Collaborate with tenants to negotiate and implement compliant solutions for elements that fall outside standard guideline parameters.
• Develop and implement strategies to align design guidelines across the group, ensuring consistency.
• Prepare and manage review meetings with the Director of Concept Studio, delivering concise project updates and ensuring all critical and impactful issues are addressed effectively.
• Collaborate effectively with RPM, Leasing, Centre Management, and tenants’ design and construction teams to ensure stakeholder requirements are addressed professionally and constructively.
• Provide strategic direction and top‑level oversight of the design review and compliance process, maintaining consistency, quality, and excellence across a broad portfolio of projects.
• Assert decisive authority throughout the review process, ensuring all tenant concepts align with Westfield’s Retail Design Guidelines and contribute to a premium retail environment.

• Highly experienced Architect, Interior Designer, or Retail Design Manager with strong creative capability in retail concept development and end‑to‑end Retail Design Management.
• Fully skilled in Sketch Up (speed, model efficiency, and rendering).
• Ability to utilise in‑house AI tools to rapidly create high‑quality, creative visualisations and presentation materials that support leasing activity.
• Ability to self‑produce design, sketch and 3D modelling in addition to coordinating production by others.
• Ready to travel and be an active player in the real estate value creation process.
• Open character, comfortable sharing responsibilities and passionate when sharing ideas coherently in public.
• Bold approach to tasks, proactively challenging the status quo with well‑thought‑out solutions.
• Excellence in all tasks, willing to make extra effort.
• Natural team player, energized by people, leading from the front and skilled in delegation.

We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or other legally protected characteristics. We promote equal opportunities and embrace diversity in profiles, experiences and skills. We encourage applicants to request adjustments for interviews.