Head of Design & Style

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Overview

We're Kingfisher, A team made up of over 78,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. That's right, we're big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that's where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

As the Head of Design & Style you'll be responsible for leading the O&S design and style direction for all categories. You'll define and develop a 'Style & Design' strategy that enhances performance by delivering customer-focused, inspirational direction across all product categories. This role can be based in the UK or France.

What's the job?

• Lead and develop a cross category design and style language and strategy for OEB products.
• Lead as the primary design interface for all product development process with design team , driving consistency between categories.
• Working closely with customer insight team to ensure CMF recommendations are relevant to OEB customer expectations.
• Drive the approach and influence the category thinking on gap analysis for trend and design insight .
• Support the product development and engineering teams with allocating right resources from design team into relevant product development projects
• As part of Product Development Leadership Team , reinforce OEB by ensuring the desired quality and sustainability standards are considered through the design and material selection process.
• Conduct regular store, competitor, vendor, raw material specialists and trade show visits.

What you'll bring

• Proven leader and business influencer with strong experience in a creative and design insight role - a true subject matter expert in design & style management.
• Strong knowledge of how sourcing, buying, and product design functions operate and how trend and design expertise can grow sales for commercial advantage.
• Powerful and influential communicator who can influence a wide variety of stakeholders and able to challenge at different levels in the right way.
• Experience of influencing, leading, developing, and coaching cross functional teams to drive high performance.
• Achieves results - is organised and structured, keeps commitments, builds an effective control environment, recognises the framework within which the business operates and manages/controls risk.
• Global & national travel required.
• Experience of working across multiple product categories

Be Customer Focused - constantly improving our customers' experience

• We listen to our customers and colleagues
• We innovate products and experiences to stay ahead

Be Human - leading with purpose, humanity and care

• We do the right thing
• We invest in our people and build great teams

Be Curious - thrive on learning, thinking beyond the obvious

• We focus externally, globally and build the long term
• We experiment and share our learnings

Be Agile - building trust and empowering people to work with agility

• We act with pace, not perfection, role modelling 80/20
• We take risks, fail fast and adapt quickly

Be Inclusive - inspiring diverse teams to achieve together

• We celebrate difference as a strength
• We collaborate, breaking down silos

Be Accountable - owning the plan, delivering results and growth

• We focus on performance outcomes
• We prioritise and simplify for others

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here!

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

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