Description

Organizations

For more than a century, our client – Bolsius International (HQ located in Schijndel, The Netherlands) – has been pioneering in candle making bringing light in the homes and lives of people. With a broad portfolio of candle products and fragrance diffusers, it is creating desirable and memorable experiences for customers worldwide.

Vacancy

Being known product quality and manufacturing capabilities, our client has embarked on the next pioneering strategy of creating ‘new irresistible home ambiances’. To accelerate this direction, to create the products and brand experiences their customers desire they are now looking for ‘Head of Design (with a focus on Styling, Brand Design and Design Thinking)’.

Profile

In this role you are expected to drive ‘design and relevance’ by displaying your strong artistic and design thinking expertise. By observing trends, understanding the needs of people, connecting with the world of interior architecture and furniture design, you are becoming it’s creative conscious, setting its creative directions, inspire innovations and ensuring brand consistency.

Becoming its design voice and face you develop relationships and collaborations across the industry, you represent the design vision and direction to its stakeholders in- and outside the organization.

Reporting to the CMO, you will work with other in-house departments and core-functions on innovating and developing new product propositions, and other brand experiences. Starting with one direct design report you are expected to grow the design function for the company.

The MUST HAVE’s

For us to consider your candidacy we have a few must-have’s

• Trained as product, home-furniture or lifestyle designer (or equivalent)
• Minimum of 10 years of industry (or corporate) experience: design firm or in-house design team
• Strongly embedded in the interior-, furniture-, home ambiance design industry
• Credible (ideally award-winning) diversified design portfolio
• The capability of transforming a multi-brand product portfolio
• Internationally experienced, having worked in matrix organizations
• Cultural nomad in personal background and/or work experience
• Fluent in English, preferably Dutch or one other European language

If you recognise yourself in the above requirements and minimum qualification; AND you have not yet applied for the same role via other channels already, we invite you to reach out to us. We appreciate if you can include a short motivation and portfolio (link) with your application.