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About the Role

Develop innovative, creative solutions across the estate, on brand and budget to provide a retail experience that is commensurate with New Look’s ambition.

Responsibilities

• Provide drawings from initial feasibility through full architectural co-ordination, technical detailing, specification control, buildability, statutory compliance & governance, tender pack, onsite/as builts for all new stores, refits and adhoc projects.
• Lead architectural coordination across design consultants, internal stakeholders, contractors, landlords, and statutory authorities to ensure store designs are technically robust, commercially viable, operationally practical, and fully aligned with brand standards.
• Provide technical design direction on store planning, customer journey, operational layouts, materials, finishes, fixtures, signage, services interfaces, and architectural detailing to support consistent, compliant, and high-quality project delivery.
• Maintain specifications and guidelines that relate to architecture, visual & fixtures and producing comprehensive guides.
• Develop a clear understanding of project proposals and organize activities and responsibilities within each project to ensure deadlines and project timelines are met.
• Be aware of competitor store design activity as well as current, relevant retail design trends and how they might impact the New Look store experience.
• Fulfill the Principal Designer role on construction projects, ensuring compliance with CDM and Building Safety Act requirements, overseeing the management and maintenance of Golden Thread information throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate and maintain records including As builts, Landlord’s approvals, planning applications and advertising consent plus risk assessments, change control documents and detailed design in all areas that relate to Architecture, Visual & Fixtures that align from a procurement and H&S view inline the Building Safety Act requirements of the management of Golden Thread Information within the construction industry.
• Manage multiple aspects of project coordination including structural, MEP, lighting and other consultants.
• Design new fixtures in line with the needs of the business and suitable from a H&S view.
• Create mood boards and sample boards for presentations.
• Ensure all design packages, including plans and elevations, are created within a timely manner with a scheme that can be delivered on budget and allow the projects teams to plan effectively.
• Work with the Procurement team to ensure the change control process is followed and work with them to ensure project planning, specifications and designs can be installed on budget and fully comply with all the relevant regulations and H&S standards met.

Requirements

• Highly skilled in AutoCAD and all other standard Microsoft Office packages especially Inc Microsoft Excel.
• Skilled in Sketch up and rendering software.
• Strong knowledge of retail design methods.
• Full knowledge of Building Regulations, Principal Designer and the construction industries Golden thread.
• Experience managing external consultant teams and resolving complex technical and design issues.
• Proven experience of working from conception to finished design.
• A keen eye for detail and quality.
• Ability to follow and maintain a visual style across multiple projects and platforms.
• Ability to work within a fast-paced & demanding environment on multiple projects concurrently.
• Excellent customer service and communication skills.
• Desire to learn.

Skills

• AutoCAD
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Microsoft Excel
• Sketch up
• Rendering software
• Retail design methods
• Building Regulations
• Principal Designer
• Golden Thread (construction industry)
• Project coordination
• Fixture design
• Mood board creation
• Sample board creation
• Change control process
• Procurement
• Health & Safety standards

Location

• UK

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 5 Years Post PQE minimum

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Interior Design or Architecture

Benefits

• 40% staff discount
• Friends & family discounts
• Reward platform for external discount and offers
• Private pension scheme
• Profit related bonus scheme
• Healthcare Private Medical Scheme option
• Virtual GP access for employee and children
• Life assurance policy from day one
• Buy more holiday scheme
• Extra paid day off on birthday
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Shared parental leave (eligible after 2 years service)
• Interest-free season ticket loans
• Cycle2Work scheme

About the Company

• A feel-good fashion brand making style accessible and fun for over 55 years.
• Operates via website, mobile app and over 300 stores in the UK.
• Values: Play to win, customer obsessed, we are one, it starts with me.
• Cares about employees and the planet, believing fashion should be a force for positive change.
• Celebrates inclusion and diversity.
• Proud of an inclusive culture and talented team members who embrace shared purpose, behaviours and values.
• Prioritizes development with training to support progression.
• Flexible employer with a range of working patterns, open to discussing specific needs.

Equal Opportunity

• We celebrate inclusion and diversity in everything we do.
• We’re proud of our inclusive culture.