Retail Design Manager

**Job no**: 498032
**Work type**: Fixed Term Full Time
**Location**: Melbourne
**Categories**: Design and Construction

**Retail Design Manager - Full time 12 month contract**

**Your opportunity**:
The Retail Design & Delivery team provide guidance, advice and support to our stakeholders through the shop opening journey within our assets. The Retail Design Manager role is critical in guiding and influencing our business partners to best practice.

As the Retail Design Manager, you will be responsible for executing the Retail Design elements of the Strategic Asset Plans and stakeholder's designs for each asset. They are responsible for efficiently delivering inspirational retail design outcomes and delivering tenancies that exceed our customers' expectations, through efficient management and completion of tasks associated with and in support of the shop opening process.

Key accountabilities:

- Provide input into the Retail Design Strategy to ensure each Asset’s needs are reflected
- Utilise the Retail Design Strategy and industry research to ensure shop designs and shop improvements are inspirational, relevant and deliver on the product and tenancy visions in the Strategic Asset plans
- Manage the quality of the build with shopfitters, with the Retail Delivery Coordinator
- Obtain all necessary approvals and work to tight deadlines
- Issue drawings to our Scentre Group Construction team for pricing and liaise with retailers to facilitate the works
- Ensure shop designs adhere to Design Companions, Design Requirements and any relevant Precinct Specific Design Criteria
- Influence internal and external (shopfitters, designers etc.) stakeholders to deliver the best practice retail design outcomes for each asset
- Act as the one point of contact for Retailers, providing ongoing guidance, consultation and partnership and to develop business and design direction

This role will have you supporting several projects working closely with the Leasing & Retail Solutions team, Shopfitters, Designers and broader Asset teams. Strong communication and engagement with stakeholders and your team is imperative in achieving positive outcome of effective project delivery.

**What sets **you** apart**:
You will be a passionate, dynamic, self-motivated individual who enjoys working in a high performing culture. You’ll be a confident communicator and enjoy developing relationships cross functionally. Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to lead, negotiate, influence and collaborate is essential in this fast paced and exciting role.
- Degree/Diploma in Design/Interior Design/Architecture
- Minimum 5 years working in the Retail Design Industry
- Proven experience in onsite project management and delivery in the Retail Design space
- Working within teams and leading others to achieve results
- Possess excellent problem-solving, communication skills and inter-personal relationship building skills
- Leadership and people management experience
- Negotiating, influencing, problem solving, concise and clear communication, concepts design

**About us**

Scentre Group owns 42 Westfield destinations across Australia and New Zealand. We create extraordinary places and experiences that connect and enrich communities.

We are focused on our customers and creating more reasons for more people to visit our Westfield destinations more often and for longer.

With approximately 75 professions within our business, our team has the expertise to design, construct, operate, manage and market our Westfield destinations and platforms.

We want to be the place where talent thrives. To support you thriving with us, we promise to respect, inspire and develop you, and that you will do work that matters.

Diversity, equity and inclusion underpins our culture, and our vision is that ‘Everyone Belongs’. We foster a workplace experience where everyone feels valued, supported and motivated to realise their full potential.

We offer a range of unique benefits designed to support your wellbeing, career development and lifestyle, including five days paid Life Leave on top of your four weeks annual leave (pro-rated for part-time), 18 weeks gender neutral paid parental leave for primary carers, with no qualifying period and super paid for the duration of the leave period, and free parking at your local Westfield destination.

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Applications close: 18th October unless filled earlier.

**Advertised**: 04 Oct 2024 AUS Eastern Standard Time
**Applications close**: 18 Oct 2024 AUS Eastern Daylight Time

**_Scentre Group exclusively recruits for roles based in Australia and New Zealand. If you are contacted regarding employment opportunities with Scentre Group based in any other country, we encourage you not to disclose any personal information. _