- Ensure the design center is a wonderful experience for customers and designers. Support community rules with empathy and professionalism for an optimal experience
- Cultivate interdepartmental relationships, primarily with the sales, purchasing, construction, and drafting teams.
- Promote the feeling of belonging of all designers, including them in all activities and meetings to create buy in to the company team
- Regularly hold one on one meetings giving help, development, updates, and constructive feedback
- Develop relationships with product suppliers / representatives and rely on their knowledge and feedback to help make the design center the best it can be.
- Maintain a clean, stocked, and on trend Design Center
- Support and promote Destination Homes' mission statement, vision, and core values.
- Review and approve the Design Consultant commission forms on a semimonthly basis
- Work with Purchasing on options, levels, prices and needed new products or materials
- Work with trade partners for trainings on product and materials for designers, and sometimes sales, warranty and construction for better product knowledge and warranties
- Plan and conduct weekly design center staff meetings coordinating all updated information regarding design center needs
- Coordinate with sales and ARB's to get approvals for design exteriors and colors
- Coordinate with Purchasing manager to reduce design VPO's and increased accuracy
- Ensure all Final Design documents are on time per the start calendar, audited and accurate.
- Regularly audit the finish samples displayed in the design center, making sure they are current, accurate, and available.
- Assist with all other tasks and projects as directed by management
- Interior Design Degree preferred
- 3+ years' experience successful Interior Design experience with new home sales, preferred
- 3+ years reading floorplans, preferred
- This position requires frequent walking, standing, and climbing stairs in/around construction site, apartment homes, models, and properties
- This position requires working outdoors in all weather conditions (to include but limited to rain, snow, heat, hail, wind, and sleet), around hazardous chemical, dust, dirt, and other particulates
- Must have the ability to read and comprehend large quantities of information, operate computer equipment, speak, hear, bend, stoop, reach, lift, move, and carry up to 60 lbs. independently
- Regularly required to sit, stand, bend, reach, and move about office setting
- To perform other duties as required
Design Center Manager - Sandy, United States - The Larry H. Miller Group of Companies
1 month ago
Description
Job Description:
Oversee the effective operation of Destination Homes' design center, maintaining an ongoing awareness of current industry trends and available products, offering buyers selections in accordance with established procedures, and ensuring design center displays are organized and up to date at all times to facilitate achievement of Destination Homes' business plan and customer satisfaction goals within the established department budget.
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To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies to perform the essential functions of this position.
Manage Complexity: Make sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively analyze situations and identify solutions.
Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives.
Plans and Aligns: Plan and prioritize work to meet commitments aligned with organizational needs and goals. Includes ability to break down objectives into appropriate initiatives and actions while anticipating and adjusting effective contingency plans.
Instills Trust: Gains the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity by following through on commitments, keeping confidences, and showing consistency between words and actions.
Strategic Mindset: Sees ahead to future possibilities and translates them into breakthrough strategies. Achieved by anticipating future trends and implications accurately and articulating credible pictures and visions of possibilities that will create sustainable value.
Note: The need may arise to revise, supplement, or rescind portions of this job description, and Destination Homes reserves the right to do so at any time. Employee shall be required to meet the qualifications and perform the duties of any revised job description.
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