What’s the role about?

This is an exciting opportunity to join the John Lewis Partnership as a Store Concept Designer.  

As a Store Concept Designer you will be designing the visual expression of the John Lewis & Partners brand vision. You’ll be working as part of a team in the design and development of design solutions for use in all John Lewis Interior Store Formats. This includes ensuring the delivery of consistent and uncompromising commitment to creative excellence, customer experience and commercial and operational effectiveness of our shops.

In this role you’ll create, develop design concept solutions to meet design and commercial briefs whilst delivering a consistent approach to the 3D look & feel of shops, customer areas and omni channel experience. There will be a focus on optimising the customer experience through effective interpretation of design briefs, insight and business cases. 

In addition, you will manage prototyping and trial assessment of design solutions gathering and acting on stakeholder feedback, including Customer and functional experts. You’ll be responsible for contributing to and maintaining a thorough understanding of store design planning principles, the overall look and feel of John Lewis,shop fit, equipment and related capital and operational costs across multiple shops. You’ll also facilitate the approval of all proposals, internal elevations and finishes, lighting and ceiling plans though design governance process.

What will you be doing?

• Ensure all design solutions are provided on time within realistic estimates and cost targets for approved budgets.

• Work collaboratively with Design,Construction and Procurement teams to establish and agree a set of standards with associated and affordable costs for new and existing concepts and schemes to inform future projects.

• Responsible for ensuring the due diligence element of the design process is effectively developed, documented, managed and delivered for all design solutions.

• Ensure all Health & Safety and DDA requirements are met.

• Work to agreed budgets and production processes you will ensure the creative outcomes are line with stakeholder expectations and agreed deliverables.

• Use and interpret the latest customer insight and data you will concept and deliver design solutions that support the creative strategy, resulting in engaging and relevant in-store customer experiences.

Why do our (job title) love working for us? 

The John Lewis Partnership is the UK’s largest employee owned business and parent company of our two cherished retail brands – John Lewis & Partners and Waitrose & Partners.  Everything we do is powered by our unique purpose, which puts the ​happiness​ of our Partners at its core. Our ​Partnership Values​ define how we work. Every one of us is committed to offering our customers quality products, great quality food and outstanding service, because ​for us, it’s personal​. This role is within the Store of the Future team, which contributes to shaping how our physical stores will look and feel for our customers. 
 

What you\'ll have

• Extensive proven experience of design in the retail space

• Ability to lead a team through the briefing of a concept through to delivery

• Experience of working collaboratively across multiple teams with a variety of levels of stakeholders
   

What else could you bring?

• Working experience of AutoCAD, 3D Design, Sketch up, Adobe Creative Cloud, Inventor, Revit

• BA Hons in 3D Design or similar,

• Experience of working with 3rd party resource (e.g. architects, shopfitters and Design agencies

Please note: 

• As a business we encourage flexible working. We have a number of different ways to work flexibly, so at your interview feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you. There are no guarantees, however, examples of how our Partners already work flexibly include part-time, job share, home working and compressed hours

• We occasionally close vacancies early in the event we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore, we recommend you apply early.