Associate Hotel Interior Designer

• Confident and professional client facing skills and abilities
• Generate fee proposals and allocation of time against deliverables
• Understand project resourcing and forecasting and managing team to deliver to fixed deadlines
• Manage time and deliverables on projects and coordinate with finance department on invoicing
• Develop a design from original brief through to completion
• Run and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Chair and record client and consultant meetings when required
• Produce and manage design to client's project budget
• Self-motivated with a clear ability to use initiative & be pro-active
• Work effectively under the supervision of the directors, heeding direction and advice when given
• Adapt and respond to clients' requirements as they develop and recognise and manage change when this exceeds scope of services and original brief
• Work closely with the procurement department ensuring that the correct level of information is provided at the various stages of the
• Attend weekly project status meetings with directors and report on: progression of deliverables against scope/fee/timeline, resourcing requirements, stage completion against invoicing and any critical issues
• Maintain design integrity throughout the design development and construction processes
• Comfortable working to a deadline in a fast paced, busy environment

Management of Team:

• A team player, but with strong leadership skills and proven ability to manage people effectively and considerately
• Oversee and develop team members & delegate accordingly, bringing team together to work in the most effective way
• Identify team staffing and resourcing requirements and assist with the recruitment process and
• Participate in team staff appraisal system offering mentoring and career development with the assistance/under the direction of the Directors and

• Take and assimilate a brief, developing it into pitch presentation
• Under direction of the directors provide the creative lead on assigned projects encouraging team to strive for excellence at all times
• Monitor teams work, ensuring continuity and compliance with brief and project requirements
• Produce mood presentations using images, sketches, samples to best communicate ideas
• Space plan to a clients' brief
• Sense of scale & the ability to think 3 dimensionally, particularly in relation to project solving
• Confident presentation skills & design team communication

• Good technical background and the ability to fully understand, produce and oversee every aspect of the technical and furniture drawings, schedules and specifications
• A good understanding and knowledge of finishes and FF&E and how these are intrinsic to the overall design
• Ability to oversee and co-ordinate FF&E designers from concept to completed specifications and control books
• A good understanding of materials and construction techniques
• Strong co-ordination & communication skills and the ability to liaise with and communicate ideas and solutions with clients, consultants and suppliers coherently through drawings and conversations
• Maintain quality assurance: monitoring team's work - providing quality checks before issue
• Competent in all areas of documentation delivery
• Understand UK regulations and statutory requirements and take responsibility for gaining knowledge of requirements when projects are outside of the UK
• Understanding of local authority applications and processes

• Ability to perform all aspects of project running: administration, co-ordination, technical design, drawing production, delivery and site installation
• Confident and experienced in checking and marking up other consultant's and manufacturer's drawings
• Site experience at different stages of the construction process
• Ability to clearly communicate and record ideas and information
• Confident in attending site meetings and representing the company and client's interests by maintaining design integrity without compromising quality, time or cost
• IT literate
• A very good understanding of and competence in AutoCAD
• Good capability in Excel
• MAC experience
• Freehand sketching