Title: Senior Design Manager
Location: United Kingdom-United Kingdom (County level)-London-100VE
Job Number: 160001OA
Job Title: Senior Design Manager - Co-creation Centre, London
Salary: upto £64,000
Benefits: Car Allowance £7,200, Location Allowance £3,500 Bonus, Pension, Healthcare, Agile Working
Location: London Blackfriars
Travel: Minimal
About our Co-creation Center
Our co-creation Centre was developed within Unilever Personal Care with the intention to create a game changing approach and process for ideation and co-creation, in order to deliver bigger better faster initiatives and breakthrough innovations.
Through co-creation the new Centre offers marketers and other functions an experience inspired by design and creativity.
Our Centre is operated by an experienced team of beauty insiders and a management team experienced in leading some of the world’s biggest personal care brands.
We are searching for an experienced design manager, a creative leader who will manage and mentor a team of in-house designers, supplemented by a network of freelance creative professionals, that they will help to shape and develop.
The Job: Senior Design Manager:
As the Senior Design Manager, you will be responsible for leading, defining and shaping design at the Centre.
You will lead, oversee, and define best practices for organizing and creating processes and shaping cutting-edge design experiences.
You will also lead in building an in-house creative team, whilst also shaping and forging external creative relationships
Specifically:
Lead design activities, as well as in-context design technical capabilities. Oversee and provide leadership for all 2D and 3D design needs.
Effectively plan the design requirements of all workshops, partnering with brand teams and Creative Centre leadership to build the perfect creative agenda.
Identify opportunities to create value and improve the design experience; organize and exploit opportunities to create visually compelling designed environments.
Co-develop and deliver impactful design training on behalf of the Personal Care organisation.
Partner with complimentary internal and external experts (e.g. trends, consumer insights, R&D teams) to increase the impact of design delivery within the co-creation centre.
Develop and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Drive the development of the design team, reconcile technical and creative needs; execute top-down structure, build design knowhow from the ground up.
Operate as a Design facilitator within workshops. Co-ordinating design activity and output across the Unilever team and external creative partners.
Work in close partnership with co-creation staff in London and New York to drive a single design agenda underpinned by open communication, sharing of learnings, and smart resourcing.
Skills:
Great Pitcher
Strong communicator. Influencing how creativity drives thinking, how ideas materialize, how design shapes the outcome. Ambition will be matched to passion and expertise.
Talent Savvy
Expected to promote talent. To build and promote a creative team of external and internal partners whose talents and purpose accelerate “thinking through design”. As designers they will be knowledgeable in how they work and experts in what they say and do.
Connected with the right places and people
Socially connected. Linked to the London creative network and plugged into other European design hubs. Able to create fantastic opportunities to engage the creative community, beyond “rules”, creating connections that evolve design in a way that is constantly being rewritten.
Prepared to help
Crisis can hit at any time and being prepared is part of the job, it makes the difference between success and failure. As the creative leader you’ll roll your sleeves up and do whatever it takes to make creativity happen.
An eye for beauty, attention to detail and perfection
Experienced. You will lead a creative team and develop leading edge design thinkers. You are knowledgeable in trends with an awareness of beauty/luxury brands. You are keenly aware of fashion, architecture, interior design, Art and any adjacent industries where beauty and design can be expressed.
Experience:
The Senior Design Manager must have a deep understanding of front-end concept development, brand strategy, and an interest in experience design. You will be working with multi-disciplinary teams in the development of high impact creative solutions and innovative brand design.
Bachelor's degree in design-related discipline: Industrial Design; Graphic Design; Communications; Design Innovation.
Solid verbal communication skills, with experience presenting to all levels of clients and co-workers
Well versed in studio based design methods and traditional design techniques.
Must be prepared and capable in sketching ideas and expressing visual concepts.
Must be experienced in a client-facing role, have project experience working with teams on varied creative projects.
Ability to gracefully handle multiple activities in a fast-paced and at times stressful environment.
Proven leadership in leading creative teams along with ability to work as one of the team, in a very diverse team
Some web design experience a plus
Standards of Leadership:
Bias for Action
Building Talent and Teams
Growth Mindset
Consumer and Customer Focus
Accountability & Responsibility
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Unilever is a global Fast-Moving Consumer Goods company in the UK and Ireland.
We are already on target to achieve our huge ambition to double the size of our business globally whilst reducing our environmental impact. We are growing our business and also doing what is right for our consumers, community and environment.
We are developing brands for people’s lives today and for the changing environment tomorrow - making sustainable living commonplace.
Working at Unilever means that you get to take part in this exciting journey and work with amazing people who are really passionate about our large portfolio of famous brands. We want to improve billions of lives and you too can join us in making a sustainable difference.
HOW TO APPLY
Please attached a copy of your portfolio in addition to your most recent CV
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