Brand Creative Sr. Retail Store Designer EMEA

<p>Brand Creative is the Art of Storytelling. We are the storytellers. We are the voice of Nike’s heart &amp; soul. It's about telling powerful, meaningful stories across the entire brand ecosystem, leveraging all existing and new platforms to inspire, enable and engage athletes*, while driving brand distinction and business impact. We aim to make people feel and help them do sport on a daily basis.</p><p></p><p>In its pursuit to bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world, plus making sport a daily habit, Nike has driven a new global offense to move simpler, with more purpose, and at the speed of the consumer across our Global, Geo and City Network.</p><p></p><p>This has created many focus areas for the brand, to accelerate new opportunities for growth and build stronger consumer relationships whilst driving better engagement with our members.</p><p></p><p>One area of focus is Store Design. We are accelerating the growth of our EMEA marketplace, and we are looking to build new concepts and member-led services across an expanding fleet rollout. This is driving the need for more internal resources to deliver against this expansion plan. We will be looking at a cross section of roles, from Architecture, Store Story Design, Layout Planning and Project Management, to bolster our internal team and will be recruiting rigorously over the next few months to deliver against our new objectives.</p><p></p><p>WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR</p><p></p><p>As a Brand Creative Store Design Senior Designer based in the Nike European Brand Creative Studio, your role will be to deliver work that aligns with both the Retail Design Strategy and EMEA Brand Creative functional goals.</p><p>A central member of the creative team reporting into a Store Design Director you work on the development of innovative and original retail environments and programs that reflect Nike’s design ethos and enhance the consumer retail experience.</p><p></p><p>You lead projects, working closely with both store construction and storytellers to deliver well-crafted and innovative creative, providing direction and support to Designers and Junior Designers whilst also collaborating frequently with agencies, architects, and other external creatives.</p><p></p><p>You are passionate and connected to the creative industry – looking at the latest trends in architecture and design and this ever-expanding knowledge, network, and interest both inspires and drives your creative thinking.</p><p><br/>WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON</p><p></p><p>The work will be varied and will involve working on briefs that are focused on retail design to deliver against our consumer direct offense.</p><p></p><p>You will evolve retail concepts and stores, support enhanced product presentation, service engagement and membership strategies aligning with global retail creative direction. The expectation is that you will elevate and strengthen premium and purposeful retail design from the consumer perspective.</p><p></p><p>You will define, pilot, perfect and scale design solutions. Leading projects and project teams you will establish direction and advance projects by collaborating with peers, design counterparts and partner groups to ensure project design continuity across all areas of focus.</p><p></p><p>Confident and influential in communicating and presenting design concepts to internal partners, both in EMEA and WHQ, you will have the ability to effectively elevate concerns to design leadership in a timely and accurate manner.</p><p>Delivering high quality concepts and solutions at every stage of the creative process will require executional excellence, attention to detail and the knowledge to drive this forward.</p><p></p><p>You will need to be able to communicate design concepts to various internal and external audiences and self-evaluate through your own creative process. You'll work with store construction and Nike Direct to manage design processes and ensure design deliverables and timelines are met. In addition, you'll provide ideas that influence, increase and enhance Nike Brand Creative and initiate and drive "standard methodologies".</p><p></p><p>WHO WILL YOU WORK WITH? </p><p></p><p>In strong collaboration with the Store Design Director or Snr. Design Director you will designs stores to deliver the EMEA Marketplace Strategy.</p><p>You are part of the group that is most integral to our consumer direct offense, with an exceptionally diverse set of partners. From creative leadership on an EMEA level right through to day-to-day liaison with Nike Direct store construction, real estate, and concepts teams.</p><p></p><p>The shape of your day-to-day leadership will vary significantly, and therefore your style will have to adapt accordingly. You approach is collaborative and intuitive, seeking new and innovative ways to maximize the effectiveness of individual as well as collective thinking.</p><p></p><p>Partnering with the production and operations teams you ensure that the cre