Lead Specialist Designer

We are now looking for a Lead Specialist Designer (Colour, Material and Finish (CMF)) for an assignments with our clients in the car industry.
Work Tasks:
-Be part of a CMF specialist team that are responsible for all material developments
brand. We’re talking about all colours and materials you see on a car and inside a car.
-Kick off material developments with suppliers based on identifying needs / gaps in CMF collection.
Create aesthetical and informative design briefs to suppliers and follow up.
-Constantly scout new innovations and suppliers with a strong focus on sustainability and new technologies,
supporting the advanced collection work.
-Conduct benchmark and research, having a fact-based approach.
-Work in close collaboration with other specialists, lead designers and CMF studio engineers.
-Support in visualizing the CMF collection for internal stakeholders incl. prototyping.
-Liaise with engineering teams, mainly in China.
-Part of CMF community doing non project assignments, creative contributions to work shops and CMF strategies.
Essential qualifications:
-At least 5 years’ experience working as a designer (or design engineer) doing material developments or colour
developments.
-Knowledge from design process and methodology.
-Advantage if you have experience from prototyping and/or manufacturing.
-Skilled in Adobe Creative Suite and VRED with ability to visualize and communicate ideas effectively in 2D and 3D. Other software like Substance, Key Shot, Rhino is also valuable.
-Fluent in English. Knowledge in Mandarin is an advantage.