Job Summary

The incumbent will be responsible for producing high quality project design deliverables in both FF&E and construction documents. The incumbent will also coordinate with interior designer teams for projects as well as preparing and developing drawings and materials related to the design.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities by Dimensions:

A. Shareholder & Financial:

- Ensure the appropriate engagement of all relevant stakeholders and their engagement at the appropriate level throughout the project.

- Play committed role in delivering team's objectives by fulfilling or surpassing expectations of supervisor and fellow team members.

- Prioritize routine tasks to complete the most urgent and important tasks first.

- Action assigned tasks as per the set timelines without any delay, maximizing individual's contribution to the success of team or function.

- Support interior designer team when the issue is complex.

- Promote cost consciousness and efficiency and enhance productivity, to minimise cost, avoid waste, and optimise benefits for the bank.

- Implements KPI’s and best practices for Interior Designing.

- Promote cost consciousness and efficiency and enhance productivity, to minimise cost, avoid waste, and optimise benefits for the bank.

B. Customer (Internal & External):

- Attend to departments needs efficiently and ensure delivering designs in a timely manner.

- Use defined internal processes and always strives to meet and exceed service standards.

- Understand difficulties in design as a result of specific customer needs in QNB branches and subsidiaries to assist customers in all their queries on Bank’s product and seek solution to their requests.

- Maintain activities in accordance with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with internal departments/units to achieve improvements in turn-around time.

- Build and maintain strong/effective relationships with related departments/units to achieve the Group’s objectives.

- Assist customers in all their queries on Bank’s product and seek solution to their requests.

- Maintain activities in accordance with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with internal departments/units to achieve improvements in turn-around time.

- Build and maintain strong/effective relationships with related departments/units to achieve the Group’s objectives.

- Provide timely/accurate data to external/internal Auditors, Compliance, Financial Control and Risk when required.

C. Internal (Processes, Products, Regulatory):

- Develop initial ideas and acquiring key information about potential projects, discussing requirements in detail with business (the brief) and setting project schedules.

- Document project requirements from user departments to develop the design specifications.

- Coordinate with the concerned stakeholders to ensure proper integration of their requirements and the design (IT security, corporate communications)

- Develop advance materials and finishes board and provide to the VP interior designing for approval.

- Estimate cost and amount of materials required, present plans to VP interior designing for approval, estimate bids, and prepare contracts for interior installation.

- Based on the approved project specifications, review working drawings, designs, plans, models and schemes and submit them to the VP interior designing for approval.

- Review final layouts and suggest improvements as needed before the submission to the VP interior designing.

- Review initial layouts and attend to floor plan/ design requirements through designing and ensuring design is reflected in AutoCAD drawings.

- Preparing tender documents and evaluation reports of tenders with recommendations, share it with VP interior designing for approval.

- Coordinate with consultants & contractors and ensure the execution of project as per the specifications and drawings.

D. Learning & Knowledge:

- Strong creativity and the ability to take instructions, formulate design decisions.

- Understands Architectural and Structural needs.

- Identify any areas for professional development of self and all direct reports, and act to enhance professional development of self and others.

- Be able to communicate well with the concerned stakeholders to ensure proper integration of their requirements and the design (IT security, corporate communications)

- Proactively identify areas for professional development of self and undertake development activities.

- Seek out opportunities to remain current with all developments in professional field.

E. Legal, Regulatory, and Risk Framework Responsibilities:

- Comply with all applicable legal, regulatory and internal compliance requirements including, but not limited to, Group Compliance Policies and Procedures (AML & CTF, Sanctions Policy, Data Protection Policy, Fraud Control Policy, Whistle Blowing Policy, Conflict of Interest and Insider Dealing Policy).

- Understand and effectively perform your role under the Three Lines of Defence principle to identify measure, monitor, manage and report risks.

- Ensure systematic good outcomes for clients in accordance with Conduct Risk policy.

- Support the framework of RCSA, KRI, Incident reporting and remediation, as appropriate, in accordance with the Operational Risk Management requirements.

- Maintain appropriate knowledge to ensure full qualification to undertake the role.

- Complete all mandatory training provided by the Bank, attain, and maintain the required levels of competence.

- Attend mandatory (internal and external) seminars as instructed by the Bank.

F. Other:

- Ensure high standards of data protection and confidentiality to safeguard commercially sensitive information.

- Maintaining utmost confidentiality concerning customer and internal bank information obtained during the course of business and provide such information on a need to know basis only to Senior Management of QNB, Audit and Compliance functions, and relevant Regulators.

- Maintain high professional standards to uphold QNB's reputation and to strengthen its market leadership position.

- All other ad hoc duties/activities related to QNB that management might request from time to time.

Education and Experience Requirements

- University degree or technical diploma in interior design.

- Minimum 8 years’ experience as an interior designer.