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Head of Design

Nando's Australia & New Zealand 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Full-time Senior

Lead the design of new restaurant builds, refurbishments, and innovation projects across Australia and New Zealand. Manage external architects and design partners while ensuring brand consistency and commercial success.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design of new restaurant builds, refurbishments, and innovation projects across Australia and New Zealand. Manage external architects and design partners while ensuring brand consistency and commercial success.

Requirements

  • Requires experience in designing hospitality, restaurant, or retail environments including back-of-house and kitchen layouts. Candidates must possess strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to balance creative design with commercial outcomes.

Benefits

  • Free meals
  • Parental leave
  • Hybrid work
  • Wellness support
  • Mental health resources
  • Fitness resources
  • Nutrition resources
  • Financial wellbeing resources

Key Skills

Hospitality environment design Restaurant and retail layout Back‑of‑house and kitchen planning Brand consistency enforcement Commercial outcome optimization Stakeholder management External architect coordination Design leadership Project management Creative concept development Cross‑functional collaboration Strategic thinking Presentation skills Team mentorship Change management

About Nando's Australia & New Zealand

Nando’s isn’t just about selling chicken, we’re about the people who make the chicken! This is why our global purpose is Changing Lives, Together. At its core, this means we want to change the world around us by making a real difference to people’s lives. This passion to make a difference starts with our Nandocas (how we say staff), because when they’re being their best, brilliant selves, epic things happen. You’ll also find us out doing good in our local and global communities and taking every opportunity to be a force for good. There’s nothing ordinary about working with Nando’s. We have a saying here that ‘everyone is welcome to dine at our table’, and we hand-on-heart mean it! For us, championing diversity, standing for equal opportunity, supporting development and growth, and having fun while we work is serious business.

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