Senior Designer – Furniture and Upholstery

About The Role

Are you a Senior Furniture Designer looking for your next big opportunity? We're looking for a highly experienced and creative Furniture designer to join our team, designing and developing own brand products including cabinetry, freestanding furniture and upholstery.

What you’ll bring:

• A versatile design 'handwriting' capable of adapting to multiple styles.
• Extensive experience in product development across various home furniture products.
• Exceptional research skills with a proven ability to identify key furniture trends and successfully translate them into commercial, market-ready products.

As a Senior Furniture Designer, you will support the Leadership team in creating the individual category design strategy, ensuring it is aligned to the overall strategic direction and providing insight into your area of Own Brand products. You will be responsible for designing, developing and delivering original, relevant, customer-centric and distinct best-in-class own brand products, utilising customer insights, to inspire, excite and delight our customers.

You will tangibly contribute to the delivery of planned growth for Own Brand categories. You will take a leading role in designing more complex products / design briefs within the category, working independently, alongside or in collaboration with the wider Design and Commercial community. Additionally, you will work strategically with smaller suppliers to support longer-term plans (as an example).

Contract type – This position is a Permanent contract.

Working pattern/flexible working – The Partnership has adopted a hybrid working approach, meaning you’ll be able to work a mixture between the office and home based upon your personal needs whilst balancing the needs of the business. The Product Design team aims for 3 days a week in the office to connect and on a more ad- hoc basis to attend key meetings.

Location – This role is based at our London Head Office campus in Pimlico. Please note, any cost incurred as a result of travel to the office is the responsibility of the successful candidate. There is no travel allowance for this role.

Next Steps – The application process requires you to upload recent portfolio / examples of your work as well as your CV and application answers. An initial shortlist will be invited to a virtual Portfolio review which will be held wc/ 13th July 2026. A final shortlist will then be invited to attend a formal interview where you will be required to present a small project that will be provided to you in advance.

INTERVIEWS WILL BE HELD IN PERSON AT OUR HEAD OFFICE IN PIMLICO W/C 3rd AUGUST 2026.

• Design – Create the individual category design strategy, ensuring it is aligned to the overall strategic direction and providing insight into your area of Own Brand products.
• Create product design that will form a coherent category assortment aligned to brand / sub-brand guidelines and in service of our customers. Focus on technically more complex products and/or lead the design of a more complex sub-category.
• Align to the Own Brand assortment strategy with a strong focus on understanding our customer and their evolving needs and desires to ensure that we deliver appropriate and relevant products. High involvement in trend and forecasting.
• Recommend, prepare and present relevant and appropriate category trends through high quality research to the wider team.
• Ensure the sampling process is efficient. Produce precise design packs and fulfil seasonal design briefs with commercial and innovative solutions, supported by illustrating / briefing / sourcing key materials and details. Ensure accurate samples are produced. Maintain comprehensive records of design projects.
• Apply a diverse set of skills to effectively bring design concepts to life. Demonstrate proficiency in traditional design and development techniques – drawing, painting, model making – and in modern design software. Includes tools for 3D modelling, furniture & hard goods design, and 2D applications (pattern and surface design). Working knowledge of emerging technologies such as 3D printing, rapid prototyping, and AI integration in the design…