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Head of Design (m/w/d) Non-Food

Kik Textilien Und Non-food Gmbh 🇩🇪 59199 Bönen, Germany

Hybrid Full-time Senior

You will be responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of the Non-Food design area. This includes developing creative design strategies, managing design projects, and collaborating with various departments.

Responsibilities

  • Developing creative design strategies, seasonal themes, and packaging concepts with your team
  • Managing design projects and continuously optimizing processes and workflows
  • Collaborating closely with product management, category management, marketing, and other departments
  • Coordinating promotion and campaign themes for online and print, as well as collaboration between non-food and textile departments
  • Analyzing international trends, creating mood boards, and preparing quarterly trend presentations for management
  • Accompanying international supplier trips, preparing sign-offs, and coordinating licensing issues
  • Presenting design concepts and decision templates professionally to management

Requirements

  • Successfully completed degree in design, graphic design, communication design, or comparable qualification
  • Several years of professional experience in a leading design position, preferably in the non-food, retail, or consumer goods sector
  • Experience in leading and developing creative teams
  • Strong sense of trends, colors, materials, and brand staging
  • In-depth knowledge of packaging design and development of seasonal design concepts
  • Proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud and PowerPoint
  • Structured, solution-oriented work approach and high organizational skills
  • Ability to work cross-functionally with various teams
  • Very good German and English language skills
  • International travel readiness

Benefits

  • Intensive onboarding
  • Hybrid work model
  • Very good highway connection / free parking / electric charging columns
  • Comprehensive e-learning offer and subsidy for VHS courses of your choice, as well as further in-house training opportunities
  • Subsidized company restaurant
  • Personal discount in the online shop and our branches, as well as corporate benefits
  • Company health management, including various sports groups

Key Skills

Design strategy development Seasonal theme development Packaging design Team leadership Creative team development Trend analysis Mood board creation Trend presentation Design project management Process optimization Workflow optimization Collaboration with cross-functional teams Adobe Creative Cloud PowerPoint Structured work approach Solution-oriented work approach Organizational skills German language skills English language skills International travel readiness Communication skills Leadership skills Problem-solving skills

About Kik Textilien Und Non-food Gmbh

Once started out with only one small discount shop in Germany in 1994, KiK has now grown to employ 31,000 people in over 4,100 stores throughout Europe. One of our distinctive competencies deals with the word opportunity: We value character and skills of applicants over a perfect résumé and grades. We know that life sometimes resembles a rocky path. KiK also went through several ups and downs in the past 30 years. We are looking for employees, who are motivated to belong to our KiK team and to support us with their energy and creative ideas. And finally, and what’s most important for applicants – we have a vision for the coming years. The long-term goal is to operate 5,000 modern shops in Europe. If you want to help develop this vision with us - you can find current vacancies on our homepage. Impressum: http://www.kik.de/impressum/

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