Retail Design Project Manager

Retail Design Project Manager
Huddersfield
Up to £45,000 DOE

**Please note we are unable to assist with relocation/VISA assistance for this role. If you do not have right to work in the UK, we sadly cannot consider your application.
Our client, based in West Yorkshire, is a worldwide Branding agency who excels in developing company brands to maximise their growth and potential. With offices across the world, they are firmly on the map for global recognition.
They are looking for a Retail Design Project Manager to work directly with an automotive client to support them with recreating and developing their corporate and visual identity and to provide them with deliverable design solutions to achieve a consistent look and feel to their network of facilities.

This role would be ideal for someone who has a background in commercial/retail space/fit out planning, who has client management experience and a knowledge of associated design software's. Any understanding of loose fixtures/fittings/furniture is highly desirable.
Key Responsibilities:

- Responsible for the quality of the corporate and visual identity guidelines
- Ensure the content and requirements of the corporate and visual identity guidelines are of a consistent quality
- Support the development of any updates to the corporate and visual identity manual
- Provide architectural guidance to all current and upcoming projects
- Support and guide on the design intent pack process and manage the approvals process
- Provide recommendations on architectural drawings and design schemes
- Leads the communications between the client requirements and the design teams
- Acts as the point of escalation for design decisions that are outside of the normal design guidance
- Makes suggestions for value engineering or better design solutions that enables improvements in time, cost and quality of installations
- Develop and maintain a tracking system for the projects and drawings reviewed
- Support the training of all third-party architects in the core principles of the corporate and visual identity concept
- Managing enquiries and responses to corporate and visual identity related questions and queries
- Provide guidance on the approval of facility plans and advise on potential variations from the standards
- Management of the local variation governance process
- Processing and uploading project documentation / drawing reviews to the portal
- Liaise with key regional and market stakeholders to provide support in the implementation of the programme
- Facilitate communication between the key design, supplier and dealer points of contact
- Oversee and support any product development with the approved supply chain
- Collate and review technical drawings from the supply chain
- Manage compliance of facility plans
- Conduct or coordinate desktop compliance reviews, comprehensively reviewing sites and recording compliance data
- Update and maintenance of data management portal
- Obtain retailer facility cost from completed projects
- Collate and maintain information on CI costing elements
- Ensure collation of high-resolution photographs for each completed facility
- Work on ad-hoc projects as required.

Knowledge, Skills & Attributes:

- Experience in commercial space / retail planning
- Proficient in design software, such as 2D AutoCAD, Photoshop, In Design, Sketch Up
- Client focused, with excellent client management skills
- Flexible approach
- Willing to travel, including outside of the UK as required
- Strong attention to detail with relevant experience preferable
- Excellent organisational skills, focused and the ability to multi-task, prioritise projects and meet deadlines in an ever changing, fast paced environment.
- Full UK driving licence and valid passport

Salary & Benefits:
Up to £45,000 depending on experience, this is a full-time and permanent position offering flexibility on remote/hybrid-based working. Work related travel is expected both nationally and internationally, so flexibility towards this is expected.

- Company vehicle/car allowance
- 25 days’ holiday
- Cycle to work scheme
- Mental Health Support Service

And much more!