Purpose and Overall Relevance:
Collaborate with sourcing, suppliers, and cross-functional teams to develop industry-leading creative, functional, and cost-effective solutions for assigned concepts or categories. Responsible for all aspects of the colour and material mastering process—driving quality, innovation, and production feasibility for world-class products.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop, revise and oversea Technical Packages for assigned projects, ensuring all requirements for aesthetics, proportion, manufacturing, and costing are met.
- Interpret design intent; provide alternative and supplementary solutions as a technical resource to stakeholders and factories.
- Guide all aspects of colour, material, and finish mastering, including analysis and approval of colour, material, finish, and grain to validate appearance and quality.
- Track and facilitate prototyping of multiple products. Identify and address manufacturing/costing issues and deliver against tight timelines.
- Manage multiple parallel-path projects and high-volume workloads in a fast-paced environment.
- Communicate status of material masters and prototypes to Design Quality, CMF Design, Procurement and Engineering teams and escalate risks where needed.
- Participate in global annual and long-term creative direction strategies to influence innovation.
- Present and communicate creative solutions clearly and effectively to stakeholders.
- Seek new design resources to elevate and inspire the design team.
- Review and approve development stages of sample execution.
- Develop supply base and track timelines to ensure materials are production ready.
- Support and implement tactical protocols, procedures, tools, and software to streamline the material mastering system.
- Distil complex Excel / Data into clear, visually compelling, single-slide summaries that quickly communicate the current project status to stakeholders.
What you’ll bring:
- Bachelor's degree in design, Textiles, CMF, Industrial Design, Product Development or relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
- UK + Chinese Language.
- Demonstrate high colour acuity and ability to articulate precise colour and appearance differences; pass the Munsell Hue Test with a superior score.
- Experience with colour quality evaluation using colour measurement tools, digital data, and visual analysis.
- Experience tracking supplier performance metrics and supporting corrective action plans to meet timing and quality goals.
- Proven ability to implement procedures and systems for tactical protocol.
- Pragmatic approach to facilitating creative projects, focusing on process and coordination rather than direct design execution.
- Excellent at building and maintaining external and internal relationships including travelling to suppliers.
- Bring an excellent knowledge of technical material knowledge to educate and influence the design team.
- Strong communication and organised skills; obsessive attention to detail.
- Self-motivated, adaptable, and able to manage multiple projects with short timelines.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Exceptional visual communication skills - can extract meaning from raw data and translate it into understandable, actionable graphics that fit onto a single slide.
What to expect:
You’ll build and oversee material masters, collaborate closely with suppliers, drive quality in every stage, and thrive in a dynamic, creative, and fast-paced environment. Your acute eye for colour and detail, paired with operational excellence and top-tier visual communication, will help you clarify, influence, and propel the delivery of world-class solutions.
Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.