Design Specialist

Are you a detail-oriented and deadline-driven creative with a passion for design and visuals?

Then here an amazing opportunity for you to join the Belgotex Team

Belgotex is Africa’s leading carpet and artificial grass manufacturer. As a soft flooring specialist we design, make, and distribute high-quality broadloom and modular carpets with custom solutions available to the commercial market. Our extensive product portfolio includes luxury and specialist vinyls and artificial grass.

**Corporate Values**:

- **Better Together**: We believe that people inspire greatness. It takes a team to achieve our world class standards and we can’t do any of this alone.
- **We Tread Softly**: We are a recognised world leader for sustainability practices, asking less of the planet in all that we do.
- **Deep Focus**: We are on a journey of vertical growth to deliver specialised flooring solutions to Africa and the world.
- **Curiosity**: True innovation starts with a desire to explore and achieve the unimaginable.
- **Courage**: We’re not afraid to ask big questions, even if it means asking more of ourselves.

**Purpose of this role**:
The Design Specialist links the commercial direction related to colour and global colour tracking with the ability to run them into forecasts for the têxtile industry through product design of têxtile materials. This role considers sustainability in the design process with a keen focus on the impact on manufacturing. This role has the superpower of being able to translate our design process across the business and also with customers through effective facilitation and training.

**Key Responsibilities**:
1.** Translating concepts**into final designs using various tools and software. This includes creating detailed drawings, graphics, layouts, or models. For digital design, this involves using programs like Adobe Creative Suite or Sketch; for product design and CAD software.

2. Interacting with customers/clients to understand their needs, present **design concepts**, and gather feedback. This includes presenting ideas clearly, addressing concerns, and making revisions based on client input.

3. **Creating and refining design concepts**based on client requirements, project goals, and market research. This involves brainstorming ideas, sketching preliminary designs, and execution into final products.

4. **Overseeing** the design project from start to finish, ensuring it stays on schedule and within budget. This involves coordinating with other team members, managing timelines, and handling any issues that arise during the design process.

5. Ensuring that the final design meets the required standards and specifications. This includes reviewing work for accuracy, consistency, and adherence to brand guidelines or technical requirements.
- Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in design or art-related field.
- 5 - 8 years of experience in a relevant design role.
- Certification and/or training in relevant software programs required for the role.
- Previous experience working on a Design software/Textile software (For example, coral draw/Adobe/Nedgraphics)
- Must have a portfolio of high-quality professional work and project samples.
- Mastery of foundational design concepts and visual principles.

**Competencies: Leader of People and Process**

1. **Emotional Intelligence**:

- Establishing and sustaining trusting relationships by accurately perceiving and interpreting own and others’ emotions and behaviour; leveraging insights to effectively manage own responses so that one’s behaviour matches one’s values and delivers intended results.

2. **Execution** - Ensuring others contribute to organizations strategies by focusing them on the most critical priorities, measuring progress and ensuring accountability against those metrics.

3. **Continuous Improvement** - Originating action to improve existing conditions and processes, identifying improvement opportunities’ generating ideas and implementing solutions.

4. **Operational Decision Making** - Securing and comparing information from multiple sources to identify business issues, committing to an action after weighing alterative solutions against important decision criteria.

5. **Safety Leadership**:

- Actively protecting others’ well-being ensuring compliance with safe operating procedures and inspiring others’ commitment to create and maintain a safe working environment.