Job Description

Required Skills:

• 8 - 12 years' experience
• Degree in Interior Design or related internationally recognised degree
• Strong space planning skills and attention to detail.
• Commercial Workplace experience - offices, retails, restaurants
• Exceptional design thinking skills.
• Adobe Suite AutoCAD skills are essential.
• Graphic Software: InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Rhino and Revit
• Possess excellent communication and presentation skills.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating and leading design concepts through creative thought processes focussed on user experience, materiality and sustainable approaches, and represents the company's standard quality of design.
• Demonstrate design and technical aptitude, with developing design and technical confidence.
• Present design solutions to the client.
• Lead the selection of FF&E and production of interior specifications.
• Contribute to and manage the preparation of mood boards, material & finish selections and presentation material.
• Maintain constant professional communications with client, project team, and consultants
• Have a project focussed view, across multiple projects.
• Demonstrate knowledge of industry wide furniture & design suppliers, able to lead procurement and client selection discussions.
• Have responsibilities for managing teams with specific roles, areas or packages within projects.
• Work within an agreed scope and deliver complete packages of work to deadline.
• Develop design work in close coordination with other members of the team.
• Implement designs, contracts and strategic decisions reporting to the project lead.
• Lead the delivery of projects at different stages.
• Manage all aspects associated with projects including proposals, exhibits, contracts, project budget, and profitability

Skills and Abilities required:

• Effective communication skills: Strong communication skills, both verbal and written. Ability to read and interpret information.
• Leadership skills: Able to assume a role of authority, as necessary; sets an example for co-workers; delegates responsibility and empowers associates to make decisions and take personal accountability for decisions.
• High accuracy and attention to detail: Able to perform work and job function with precision and accuracy; carefully monitors processes; concentrates on details, organizes and maintains a system of records.
• Strategic thinking: Develops strategies to achieve organizational goals; Understands organization's strengths and weaknesses; Adapts strategy to changing conditions.
• Design: Generates creative solutions; translates concepts and information into images; collaborate with others to modify design; applies design principles.
• Ownership Mentality: Possesses a sense of ownership in all deliverables. Utilizes knowledge and opportunity to continually strive for excellence within an empowering culture. Collaborates and supports fellow employee owners in ongoing improvements. Understands personal accountability within their role in the company.

Job Type: Full-time Ability to commute/relocate:

• Abu Dhabi: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)