Job description

Archibat HR Asia is looking for a Senior Associate/Principal – Interior Design for a Leading Global Architecture and Interior Design firm to be based in their Shanghai Office.

 

About the role

In this market-facing role, and working in close partnership with our Heads of Design, your role is two-fold.

 

Firstly, leveraging your reputation as an industry-leading designer, you will advance opportunities to develop and strengthen the company’s Interior Design profile within the Asia market, with a focus on Shanghai.  Actively engaging with clients, you will grow and manage key relationships to drive the conversion of project opportunities.

 

Secondly, as a leader within the practice, you will strengthen our Interior Design Leadership in Shanghai.  You will be actively contributing to the design culture at the company. Motivating and mentoring design teams, you will steward the company’s client focussed collaborative design processes to achieve design excellence – specifically leveraging your wealth of expertise to provide leadership, direction, and knowledge input for the design and delivery of projects and managing project deliverables, programs, and deadlines and developing the capability of the team.

 

About you

You are an established leader with a passion for great design and an impressive background delivering exceptional and sustainable contemporary projects in the Shanghai market.  Your involvement in delivering these projects, combined with your knowledge of design and market trends make you highly networked within the local market. This network will be instrumental in your ability to identify opportunities for client engagement/partnerships for the company 

Required profile

A curious and creative thinker, you’re a designer who balances creativity with business nous and brings ingenuity to challenging briefs.  You can confidently take the lead running high-profile, large-scale projects and have the ability to clearly communicate your knowledge of exceptional interior design to both your team and clients.  

Specifically, you will bring to this role:

•a strong client, design, and delivery focus;

•a record of successful leadership of medium to large scale projects or a contribution to an award-winning project;

•a network of deep client relationships across sectors, organisations, and professions;

•expertise in business development with a proven ability to win and manage work;

•exceptional communication and presentation skills;

•executive-level stakeholder liaison and management experience;

•practice management experience

•commercial acumen and previous accountability for financial performance.

 

Position based in Shanghai.

 

Please send your CV to Oliver at o.hon-pin@archibat.com

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