Designer - Home

**Homewares Designer - Hard home**
- The ‘Designer’ brings our Own Brand offer to life by developing great value, inspirational products that our customers & team love.
- Customer centric and strive to deliver coordinated ranges, at the best prices that differentiate BIG W.
- Homewares Designer with a focus on Hard Home; Home Decor, Tabletop & Kitchen

We’re a proud part of the Woolworths Group - 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives working together connected by a shared Purpose - ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.’

Here you’ll be supported and empowered to explore new ideas, make brave commitments and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week. Backed by a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and the support to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

**What you’ll do**
- Curate, create and develop customer first ranges for multiple categories each season, managing the design and development of products within the Own Brand portfolio
- Partner collaboratively with the Category Managers and other commercial stakeholders to deeply understand and influence range strategy, option plan and brand, using clear researched global and local market intel and trend intelligence to identify design opportunity.
- Communicate design direction and concept through organised design boards, detailed briefs and clear product specifications, delivering skilled rendered design concepts in 2D rendered line drawings for feedback and approval or working with a partnering Product Developer to produce these.
- Deliver products that comply with all necessary product safety, quality and responsible sourcing standards. Work closely with Quality and Sustainability partners to understand key category frameworks.

**What you’ll bring**
- Previous experience in designing Hard products is highly regarded
- Technical understanding of product design & production processes
- Experience partnering with a global supply base and working cross functionally with various internal and external stakeholders
- An understanding of the domestic and international market and competitive landscape
- Strong Creative Cloud experience; Illustrator and Photoshop

**What you’ll experience**
- A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline - with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.
- A commitment to flexibility through a hybrid working model which combines time spent at a support office or hub and time working from home, supporting both in-person connection and balancing the flexibility that remote working provides for our teams
- Bring your eye for trend and design to product planning and development, making sure we have the newest and most exciting ranges for our customers
- Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work.

**Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group**

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.