Jewellery Designer

Company

Laings

Location

Southampton

Salary

Attractive and competitive salary, dependent on experience

Published

Deadline

The role

Jewellery Designer

Laings

Edinburgh

World of Laings

Laings, currently in the hands of the sixth generation of the Laing family, is a luxury destination for jewellery and watches. With over 180 years of heritage, Laings has grown to be known as a leading luxury family jeweller, with seven showrooms across the United Kingdon including Southampton, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Cardiff.

Today, Laings offers an expertly curated selection of fine jewellery and watches from some of the world’s most prestigious brands, as well as bespoke design and services by the team’s master goldsmiths and jewellery designers. Through the passion we have for our industry and commitment to luxury customer service, we create unforgettable experiences for our clients and capture their imaginations whenever they enter our world.

Our Culture

We are proud of a culture that makes everyone feel welcome, with the signature warmth of Laings being felt from the moment you step foot through our doors. Our principles of culture are based on mutual respect, honesty, and trust, to foster an environment that makes employees feel inspired every day. We encourage individuality, tenacity, and drive to help continue the legacy of Laings and shape the future of a business we are all proud to work for.

Your New Role

We have an exciting new opportunity available for a Jewellery Designer to join our broader Laings bespoke team, located in our wonderful newly refurbished Southampton Store.

You will be responsible for creating jewellery design for our clients in line with our heritage, craftsmanship and expertise.

Our opportunity will be offered on a continuing full-time basis, assisting 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday with the occasional Saturday (flexible to accommodate client appointments) when required.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

Producing high quality scale drawings and paintings, from different perspectives
Understand Laings Bespoke style and portray in designs
Following Laings Bespoke guidelines of presentation and pricing
Provide a luxury seamless journey to our clients throughout the Bespoke journey
Advise customers of the offerings of Laings Bespoke
Work to customer briefs whilst giving advice on jewellery design ensuring client expectations on timescales and price are met.
Build relationships with clients to ensure continuity of service and repeat business
Provide support to Sales Consultants and CRM team on introducing the Bespoke department
Build good working relationships across the design team

Skills and experience required:

Formal qualification and experience within Jewellery Design
Excellent working knowledge of jewellery design
Passion for different jewellery styles, gemstones, and diamonds
Familiar with working with a wide array of gemstones and fine metals
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Outstanding customer service experience
Polite, friendly, and well mannered
Adaptable and flexible

Our promise to you

As a trusted colleague and member of our Laings family, we strongly believe in internal development, mobility and offering various opportunities to enhance both your personal and professional development.

We offer you an attractive package commensurate with experience, competitive salary and team commission structure. From unrivalled employee discounts and service recognition awards, Laings has built our approach to benefits around the requirements of our colleagues. Our benefits have been created to ensure happiness and wellbeing across each person’s professional and personal life. We offer flexible benefits, where you can choose to match your individual needs through our bespoke benefits platform.

Laings are committed to fostering diversity, inclusion, equity and wellbeing. While our journey is ongoing, our shared commitment is to our culture of belonging and to the equality of opportunity, we follow practices which are free from discrimination.

How to Apply

Applicants are encouraged to please forward your cover letter and resume to us via the application form below or alternatively you can apply via our website at: www.laingsuk.com/careers

About us

Laings is a prestigious family-run jeweller with over 180 years’ experience in the industry. Established in 1840 we are now one of the largest independent jewellery businesses operating six stores across the UK (three shops nestled within the iconic Argyll Arcade in Glasgow, and one each in Edinburgh, Southampton and Cardiff).

The Laings culture is one of mutual trust, respect and honesty. Our staff strive to be the best in the business and our aim is to provide our customers with an unforgettable, luxurious experience whatever the occasion may be.

We are an equal opportunities employer who, in return, can offer you – a competitive reward package, training & development opportunities, healthcare, pension, 28 days holiday, employee assistance programme, generous employee discount scheme and a warm welcoming working environment.

www.laingsuk.com

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