Creative Strategist-Healthcare

Responsibilities

• Creative Strategy + Engagement
• Lead creative efforts on strategic pursuits, RFP responses, and new business opportunities.
• Define creative deliverables and shape the design vision in collaboration with Sales, Marketing, and Client Experience.
• Develop and deliver high-impact client presentations, proposals, and interviews.
• Serve as a creative lead in early-phase engagements, including customer research, programming, and conceptual development.
• Curate and integrate offerings from across the organization to develop holistic and differentiated project strategies.
• Cross-Functional Integration
• Partner across business units to embed offerings such as furnishings, décor, technology, construction, and environmental graphics into unified client solutions.
• Develop internal processes and tools to support integration, quality assurance, and handoffs between disciplines.
• Internal Initiatives
• Lead or support internal projects such as showroom refreshes, rotating vignettes, and creative storytelling moments.
• Partner with leadership to support company culture, sustainability, and change management initiatives through design.
• Mentor team members and contribute to internal learning experiences, including workshops, thought leadership, and training.
• Brand + Market Engagement
• Contribute to marketing content, case studies, events, and public presentations.
• Participate in professional organizations (e.g., IIDA, ASID, CoreNet, CREW) to represent the brand and bring external insights into internal practice.

Qualifications

• Education/Experience
• 5+ years of interior design experience desired.
• Bachelor's Degree from a four year college or university preferred.
• Aasocitate Art's Degree or equivalent may also be considered.
• Council for Interior Design Accreditation (CIDA) or National Architecture Board (NAB) accreditation preferred.
• One or more professional certifications required: NCIDQ, CID, LEED AP, WELL AP, EDAC, 6 Sigma, PMI, etc.
• Knowledge/Skills/Abilities/Competencies
• Requires an optimistic people-focused leader who leads by example as well as experience.
• High comfort level leading workshops for groups of all sizes.
• Understanding of Design Thinking methodologies and mindset.
• High degree of empathy and emotional intelligence with the ability to understand issues from the perspective of others.
• Effectively manages complex projects with many players and objectives.
• Clearly and comfortably delegates both routine and important tasks.
• Highly effective in formal presentation settings; one on one and in large groups.
• Effectively facilitates conversations and interpersonal engagements such as workshops.
• Advanced proficiency in a variety of software: AutoCAD, SketchUp, and Microsoft Office.
• CET Designer, 20/20 CAP, Revit, BIM 360, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign desired.
• Expert level knowledge of commercial and healthcare furniture products and systems furnishings.
• Expert ability to apply interior design principles, to include texture, color, form, function, materiality balance, rhythm, repetition, proximity, symmetry, biophilia, historical precedent, sustainability, Gestalt, symbolism, cognition, and perception.
• Expert ability to deliver full-service interior design solutions including, architectural finishes, lighting, furnishings, and décor.
• Expert level understanding of building codes, regulations, ADA.
• Ability to draw/sketch by hand.
• Exceptional customer service skills with ability to provide solutions to client needs.
• Complex reading and writing skills, basic math skills, judgement/decision making, analysis/comprehension.