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The Interior Designer & Space Planner will support the business by creating functional, practical, and visually compelling layouts, 3D renders, and design concepts for early learning and childcare environments. This role will combine interior design, space planning, product placement, visualisation, and sales support to help customers understand the potential of their spaces and create safe, practical, and inspiring environments for children and educators. Create interior design concepts, space plans, and layout solutions for early learning, childcare, and education-focused environments. Develop practical room layouts that consider functionality, child engagement, educator supervision, movement flow, safety, storage, and daily use. Prepare 2D floor plans, 3D renders, visual presentations, and design concepts to support customer proposals and sales discussions. Use design software such as AutoCAD, SketchUp, Lumion, or similar tools to produce accurate and visually engaging design outputs. Incorporate furniture, storage, play equipment, learning resources, and product range items into room layouts and design concepts. Support the sales team by creating visual design materials that help customers understand proposed layouts, product selections, and room possibilities. Research early learning room setup, childcare design principles, teaching approaches, and age-appropriate learning environments to inform design recommendations. Design spaces that balance aesthetics, practicality, product suitability, child development needs, educator workflow, and customer requirements. Create mood boards, product selections, furniture layouts, colour concepts, and presentation materials where required. Apply strong spatial awareness to optimise room zoning, circulation, quiet areas, active play areas, collaborative spaces, and storage solutions. Assist with product placement recommendations to ensure layouts are commercially suitable and aligned with customer needs. Use AI-assisted design, research, visualisation, or presentation tools where appropriate to improve speed, creativity, and design output. Work collaboratively with sales, product, and customer-facing teams to interpret briefs, clarify requirements, and deliver suitable design concepts. Revise layouts, renders, and design presentations based on internal feedback, customer feedback, or project requirements. Maintain organised design files, templates, product references, project notes, and presentation materials. Stay updated with interior design trends, early learning space planning, educational environments, furniture layouts, and visual presentation techniques. Other position-level duties as they arise. Requirements Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design, Architecture, Spatial Design, Industrial Design, Furniture Design, or a related discipline is preferred. Minimum 3–5 years’ experience in interior design, space planning, architectural design, fit-out design, furniture layout, or a similar design role. Strong experience creating 2D layouts, 3D renders, room concepts, design presentations, and visual materials for customer or stakeholder review. Proficiency in design software such as AutoCAD, SketchUp, Lumion, Revit, Enscape, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar tools. Strong understanding of interior design principles, spatial planning, furniture placement, room flow, zoning, scale, proportion, colour, and visual presentation. Experience designing education, childcare, early learning, commercial, hospitality, retail, or community spaces is highly regarded. Ability to create practical layouts that consider safety, accessibility, supervision, storage, circulation, usability, and customer requirements. Strong ability to interpret customer briefs, room dimensions, product information, and functional requirements into clear design concepts. Experience incorporating furniture, storage, fixtures, equipment, or product ranges into design layouts is highly