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Lead CMF Designer - Colour Material and Finish

Warwick
2 weeks ago
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Our premium brand Automotive client is currently recruiting for the following role:

Lead CMF Designer - Colour Material and Finish - £50/hr (Inside IR35) - Warwickshire - 9 Months (potential for yearly renewal)

This role has the lead responsibility for designing and developing sustainable and responsible colour and materials content for our client's automotive brands. As a Materiality Lead you will create and realise material solutions for both interior and exterior applications through to production. Delivering more sustainable and responsible material initiatives Is key to the role. The position is full time located in Warwickshire UK and reports to the Materiality Design Manager.

Key accountabilities and responsibilities

  • leads research to identify trends, landscape shifts, analogous industry and new ideas for next generation vehicles
  • identifies and leads competitor benchmarking and co-ordinate and collaborate with external suppliers
  • leads and co-ordinates the development and implementation of colour and material design proposals feeding into materiality strategies, concept cars, and vision properties. - Create inspiring materiality concepts through digital and physical assets and prototyping ideas.
  • collaborated across business with all functions required to deliver program requirements. Predicts and identifies issues.
  • leads and co-ordinates the project management of vehicle builds and development related to colour and material design.
  • leads co-ordination and collaboration for all material commodities with external suppliers to develop colours, materials, finishes, grains for all parts through to production.
  • collaborates with creative design teams & design model operation teams to deliver property builds (this could include providing quotes to business office to procuring materials, providing renderings/callouts as well as being on location to support the builds)
  • demonstrates a good understanding of product and knowledge of automotive materials, process and suppliers.
  • translates material concepts from 2d to 3d product / support of the production of components to specification
  • acts as a source of expertise to others. Demonstrates and shares best practice with the team and offer direction as appropriate
  • identifies solutions to non-standard tasks and queries.
  • support on projects from concept to realisation and proceeds to repeat and improve this process.
  • mentors and coaches others

    Skills Required:
  • Relevant design degree
  • design software competency: Photoshop/illustrator/vred
  • design experience

    Experience Required:
  • Degree level qualification ba or equivalent.
  • Textile, fashion, graphics, product, automotive design or similar.
  • Experience as a senior designer with proven experience or examples in portfolio of colour and material design application. Can creatively and pragmatically work at speed.
  • Proficient in adobe creative suite: Photoshop or illustrator or indesign.

    Desirable Skills:
  • Experience working with luxury & premium lifestyle brands.
  • Proven ability to adjust to changing design, feasibility and cost requirements
  • Proven ability to plan and undertake projects to a strict deadline
  • A good understanding of automotive design and delivery processes.
  • Additional software skills like vred, video editing software good to have yet not essential.

    Additional information:
    This role is on a contract basis and is Inside IR35.
    The services advertised by Premea Limited for this vacancy are those of an Employment Business.
    Premea is a specialist IT & Engineering recruitment consultancy representing clients in the UK and internationally within the Automotive, Motorsport and Aerospace sectors

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