POSITION: Senior Manager, Spatial Brand Design

POSTING END DATE: 18/04/2025

LOCATION: Gaydon, Warwickshire / London (UK)

SALARY: Competitive

At JLR, we're on a continual journey to reimagine the future of modern luxury, and we want you to be part of it. Through our exquisite and timeless house of brands – Range Rover, Defender, Discovery and Jaguar – we're defining a new approach to sustainability and providing exceptional experiences. As a leader here, you have the opportunity to influence the way we think, providing your unique insight and vision for a better future. It's time to become a proud creator.
 
WHAT TO EXPECT
 
At Jaguar Land Rover, our Creative Organisation is evolving to support our ambitious ‘Reimagine’ strategy, redefining modern luxury across our four iconic brands: Jaguar, Range Rover, Defender, and Discovery.

Our dynamic creative structure includes multiple disciplines—Exterior and Interior Vehicle Design, Brand, Digital, and Materiality—all dedicated to crafting exceptional luxury experiences for our customers.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our newly established Brand Design team as a Brand Design Spatial Manager. In this role, you will be a design leader with an established industry reputation, driving creative excellence across all JLR brands in collaboration with internal teams, commercial partners, and external agencies.

You will:

• Shape and elevate client experiences by designing impactful touchpoints across all brand interactions
• Bring a strong creative vision to every project, balancing hands-on design with leadership and direction
• Lead and inspire teams by providing clear creative guidance, ensuring a seamless and compelling brand experience
• Be a key influencer in the evolution of JLR’s brand identities, setting us apart in the luxury automotive landscape

This role is an opportunity to leave a lasting impact on some of the world’s most revered automotive brands, ensuring we continue to lead with innovation, creativity, and modern luxury.

THE ROLE
 
Key Responsibilities

As Brand Design Spatial Senior Manager, you will be responsible for directing, shaping and setting the strategy for Spatial Design and translation for each Brand House, through all human-made surroundings and settings, articulating and embedding Modern Luxury. The senior manager for spatial will have a background in architectural/interior and furniture design and an intrinsic knowledge of art and sculpture, bringing a new skillset and transforming the built worlds for all brands. This role is pivotal in uniting cross functional teams responsible for delivering spatial design across the enterprise.

• Creatively manage external suppliers/agencies to ensure initial goal and requirement for all spatial projects is delivered, in line with our House of Brands (HoBs) strategy and Modern Luxury design integrity
• Overall ownership of designs through conception, execution, prototyping and verification, whilst consistently working at pace & successfully
• Define and meet the Retail standards of environments, working in collaboration & supporting the Commercial Retail Teams, Centres of Excellence (CoE) and the HoBs teams Brand aspirations
• Understand human needs in all spatial projects, to translate and create spaces that drive maximum user impact and emotion through the design of events
• Drive global consistency, local relevance and desirability of each spatial project
• Ensure aesthetic integrity of each Brand is maintained across all spatial projects
• Work in collaboration with Brand Chiefs to pro-actively develop new and exciting spatial design prospects
• Mentor and manage a Creative team that consistently delivers on projects and is well-balanced across the different design skill sets
• Responsible for team performance and health, resource allocation, project prioritisation, and building a culture of design excellence
• Understand and drive the importance of sustainability in all spatial design concepts and execution
• Develop and build individual brand stories, events etc via spatial social engagement

Key Performance Indicators

• Brand equity/engagement measurement
• Consistency and quality of creative output
• Adherence to project timing and budget
• ROI in conjunction with Commercial

Key Interactions

• Commercial House of Brand and CoE teams, multi-disciplinary design and brand development, Programmes in Business Planning & Transformation, Vehicle design and Materiality
• External third-party agencies, suppliers, consultants

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience

The ideal candidate will be a visionary design leader with a proven track record in delivering exceptional creative outcomes. You should bring:

• High performing and experienced spatial design senior creative, with a proven track record of leading and managing teams and client-side experience
• Innovative and creative, challenging convention & maximising resources available
• Ability to understand how a brand story can be depicted in a built space and create maximum impact
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously working with a cross functional team to design and deliver major projects for our Hob’s
• Construction knowledge – Understanding of RIBA process
• Strong visualising approach - know how to work in 2D CAD software (AutoCAD, Vectorworks and 3D CAD Software (Autodesk 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Rhino)
• Strong skills in building and managing relationships, collaborating with multiple stakeholders to drive consensus through diverse perspectives
• Strong leadership, role modelling authenticity and inspiring the best in employees
• Progressive and pioneering in their ideas and approach to developing ambitious and realistic ideas
• Knowledge of design trends and styles and understanding of spatial balance

Personal Profile

• Demonstrates our Creators' Code behaviours of Customer Love, Unity, Integrity, Growth and Impact
• A sophisticated communicator who is able to communicate directly, clearly and openly
• An individual who can demonstrate good capability in leadership and management skills, who can motivate, develop and lead functional and cross-functional teams

Creating Modern Luxury requires a modern approach to work. At JLR, hybrid working is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement providing employees flexibility around how, when and where they work. Some roles require more on-site work, but details of this can be discussed with the hiring manager during the interview stage.

We work hard to nurture a culture that is inclusive and welcoming to all. We understand candidates may require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process. Please discuss these with your recruiter so we can accommodate your needs.

JLR is committed to equal opportunity for all.

Please be aware that we may close this vacancy for applications before the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of interest. We strongly advise you to submit your application as early as possible.