Job Description
Life Interiors is a Sydney based design and import studio focused on delivering fashionable, contemporary furniture to style-minded Australians. With design influences sourced predominantly from Europe and America, they have a friendly and fun team of professionals and are looking for a student to help in a varied role, covering many aspects of their business.

This is a great hands-on work experience opportunity, with the possibility of a permanent position for the right candidate.

The position duties include:

- Australian furniture industry exposure
- Insight into marketing design and campaign execution
- Insight into website management
- Involvement in creating and managing the right furniture product mix on our current and new website
- Client interface via our showroom
- Industry + product research and analysis
- Local and international product sourcing
- Working with a tight, successful and growing team
- Employment opportunities for the right candidate

To be successful you will need to:

- Be an excellent team player
- Utilise your knowledge and experience of interior design
- Possess excellent relationship building skills
- Be highly organized, pay attention to detail and computer savvy
- Have an enthusiastic and proactive attitude and work ethic

To apply please email your CV and cover letter to Geoff Karam. Details below.

Preferable Experience
None required, we require a candidate with the right attitude, who is passionate about interiors design and furnishings!

When and how long is this job duration
2-6 months. This job in unpaid, occasional work, possibly leading to a full-time paid position.

Location of job
Pyrmont, Sydney

Contact person
Geoff Karam
geoff@lifeinteriors.com.au

Job Description
Zanui is Australia’s online destination for the latest trends in home living, style and design. The company is growing quickly in a highly competitive market and is looking for exceptional individuals to join their talented team of creative professionals on a permanent full-time basis.

This is a great opportunity for somebody looking to establish their career in editing or writing.

As a Content Writer you will be an integral part of the production and quality of all content produced by Zanui. You will be assigned to an exciting portfolio of different categories and products and your responsibilities will include:
• Writing, reviewing and editing engaging and persuasive sales copy for online product pages
• Writing, reviewing and editing creative copy for the Zanui style and design blog, brand pages, and a range of other online and offline material
• Ensuring that accurate, reliable and comprehensive information has been included in all products, brands, categories and across the entire site in order to guarantee our customers a rich shopping experience
• Working in a team of buyer and buying assistant to contribute to the overall image, quality and success of your category

Preferable Experience
Zanui is a workplace where our staff are expected to take ownership of a problem and execute the solution. As a young, emerging start-up, our staff are dedicated, hardworking and looking to excel in their careers.

Essential criteria:
• 2-3 years’ experience in copywriting (experience in digital copywriting a plus)
• Tertiary education in Arts, Communication, or related fields
• Exceptional eye for detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Self-starter with strong time management and organisational skills
• Passion for furniture, lifestyle, design and the latest trends in home living

Desirable criteria:
• Experience working in the field of interiors, design, or lifestyle
• Furniture sales or retail experience an advantage
• Previous editorial, sub-editing and proofreading experience desirable
• Intermediate MS Excel Skills

When and how long is this job duration
Permanent ongoing

Location of job
Surry Hills, Sydney CBD

Contact person
Warren Tam: careers@zanui.com.au Please mention Interiors Addict in your application.

Job Description
Have you met Miss Jones is a lifestyle brand wholesaling to Australia’s top retailers. We are going through an exciting growth period and need an experienced Sales and Marketing Manager who has a love for customer service and an eye for detail. Here’s your opportunity to jump on board a rapidly growing business and make your mark as a fundamental part of its’ growth, and in the process create a virtually unlimited career path for yourself.

You’ll enjoy working with a small & vibrant team, and have experience in sales and customer service. You’ll be naturally detail driven and have a love of interacting with people.

Job responsibilities:
First point of contact for all customers
Order processes and invoicing
Working at the Gift and Homeware trade fairs
Writing press release and initiating press activities
Looking after our showroom and hosting press events and buying appointments
Working in collaboration with our design team in creating new ranges and concepts
Generate sales and marketing initiatives and programs

We are a small and happy team who genuinely love what we do!

Preferable Experience
A naturally positive and passionate attitude
Ability to work autonomously and confidently make decisions
Sales and customer service experience
Highly organized, systematic, with a keen eye for detail
Good written & verbal communication skills
Flair for innovation and ability to create/improve job processes

You’ll be based in Alexandria, receive on the job training, and be rewarded with autonomy as you progress. This role has the potential to grow into being the trusted lieutenant of the business owner for the right candidate.

When and how long is this job duration
Permanent from 1st June

Location of job
Sydney

Contact person
Jennifer Jones: msjenniferjones@mac.com

Job Description
The Home is Australia’s leading online shopping destination for premium home and lifestyle products. We’re part of AussieCommerce, one of the largest e-commerce groups in Australia with more than 80 employees and 1.5 million members.

As a Buyers’ Assistant at The Home you will play a vital role in the day-to-day successful management of our growing business. Our ideal team member must have a passion for our concept and interior design products, and pride of ownership for every task they take on – and there are many! Once a campaign has been secured by a buyer, it is handed over to the buyers’ assistant to manage from start to finish culminating in its perfect online presentation. This involves:

• Communicating with suppliers to take them through the sale process
• Sourcing images and product details
• Organising samples for photography
• Working with our stylists to create beautiful product, brand and lifestyle images
• Coordinating the graphics and content team and editing copy for the campaigns
• Organising shipping details with the supply chain team
• Finalising campaigns in the system to tight deadlines
• Designing daily newsletter sends
• Problem solving all aftersales issues that arise with suppliers and invoices

Buyers’ assistants have the opportunity to work closely with our experienced buyers to deepen their knowledge of the industry and the buying profession. They also take part in project groups for themed campaigns throughout the year where inspiration and creativity are essential ingredients.

Preferable Experience
We are looking for:
• A natural collaborator with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A passionate multi tasker with the flexibility to work with different departments and suppliers, seamlessly adapting to their different styles and needs
• An organisation freak who is overly detail oriented and accurate
• An effective time-manager who thrives on aggressive deadlines in a buzzing office atmosphere
• A problem solver who approaches obstacles in creative, assertive and solution-oriented ways
• A team player with a roll-up-the-sleeves, get-it-done positive attitude
• Good Excel and analytical skills a plus

When and how long is this job duration
Permanent from 1 May

Location of job
Sydney

Contact person
Lexi Mills
lexi@thehome.com.au

Job Description
Lark is looking for a fabulous sales manager to work in our trade sales divison. If you have wholesale sales experience, are a great communicator with excellent office skills and a love of design we’d like to hear from you please!

Preferable Experience
Sales experience, preferably on the wholesale side. Computer skills, preferably using Mac.

When and how long is this job duration
Permanent

Location of job
The position can be based either in Melbourne or Ballarat and involves some travel.

Contact person
Allison Jones
sales@larkstore.com.au

Job Description
We are looking for a happy, fabric loving person to work in our Hawthorn Store.
We sell recycled and new curtains and soft furnishings.
You will have a great eye for colour and pattern as well as being personable with customers.
You will need to be fit as there is lifting, hanging and folding involved.
Selecting and organising new stock, taking photos and uploading stock to website
Involves working Saturdays.

Preferable Experience
Experience in Interiors and/or window furnishings
Retail experience or fabric representative
Preferably some interiors/soft furnishing study

When and how long is this job duration
Starts May- 6 month contract

Location of job
Hawthorn Melbourne

Contact person
Romy Sanders Morris
info@thecurtainexchange.com.au

Job Description
We are looking for a VM/ stylist to work on our up coming stand for a 4 day expo . The person will need to source props, signage, stands etc The event is in October but planning needs to start now.

Preferable Experience
Experience is desirable however it is not necessary ,but enthusiasm is a must,

When and how long is this job duration
Planning can start now, expo is in October, paid, one-off.

Location of job
Melbourne

Contact person
Liane Shannon, liane@masterandmiss.com.au
Master and Miss

Job Description
If you love style, weddings and interior design and want to learn all the ins and outs of a growing business then – this is the 3 month (for 1-2 days per week) internship for you!

The Wedding Nest  is a bridal registry that ‘styles a couple’s home’. We have over 3000 beautiful but affordable homewares and statement furniture pieces, collated by 4 interior design styles. Online registries are presented as lookbooks with inspirational style photos of a couple’s dream home.

We are relaunching our website in 1-2 months and require a proactive, hardworking intern to:
- Create our product library – manage photos, product descriptions, categorise gifts into interior styles.
- Create Style Pages and blog entries
- Assist styling our press launches, windows/showroom and product shoots / photographing brides’ homes that we have styled
- Social media (pinning our gifts on pinterest etc)

By the end of your internship you will have an indepth knowledge of over 150 of Australia’s top homewares suppliers range and know how the interiors industry works including attending industry trade fairs. You will also have experience styling with a well known stylist including our PR launch event. You will also have an understanding of what is required to run your own business.

There is no doubt that some work is tedious (managing a product library) but we mix these tasks up with fun ones so yo have a dynamic working experience. We pop down to balmoral for lunch and the working environment is fun! We have very definite opinions on style so you must not be precious about your designs and willing to collaborate.

Preferable Experience
Required
- Innate gift for styling (consistent with The Wedding Nest styles) for windows/showroom, product shoots and homes
- InDesign and Photoshop skills – for creating lookbooks and get-the-look pages and managing photos
- Social media skills

Preferred
- Interior Photography skills
- Copywriting for blogs and product descriptions

When and how long is this job duration
From now – for 3-6 months

Location of job
Mosman, NSW

Contact person
Jacqui Scruby
info@theweddingnest.com.au

Job Description
We are looking for a motivated interested intern looking for experience within a Textile Homewares & Accessories small business. We design and produce homewares, textiles and some fashion accessories.
Our business has grown rapidly in the last year and we need a design savvy person to research design blogs, reference blogs, magazines and other media to assist in building our media library and work in producing media releases about our ranges.
Other work will include updating our website (the fun things) and working within the company on up and coming ranges.
This will not be making cups of tea or boring filing. Its a chance to learn about the design world, see how a business runs, read and collect reference tools and basically be in a great creative environment and learn on your feet. If all goes well we are looking to offer permanent paid work to the right candidate after the internship time has been completed. (internship of 2 months)

Preferable Experience
Your experience could include any or all of the the following.
Design or Fine Arts Degree
Tafe course (Design or Decoration related)
Blogging
Retail experience
Generally being interested in decor, media aspects of creative design
*generally someone who needs and wants the experience to get where they want to go in the industry.

When and how long is this job duration Min 2 Months

Location of job Surry Hills, Sydney

Contact person
Dani Rosen
dani@dan300.com

Job Description
We are a boutique interior design company located inner city Melbourne. One of our arms specialises in creating roller blinds for top end interiors. This position is centred around this arm.

We are looking for a Sales Rep who is able to maximise this opportunity and also to assist where necessary and more broadly in the rest of the business. This will be discussed in detail with short listed applicants.

Preferable Experience
• You have proven sales records in the Architectural Specification and/or Corporate & Government industries– (Facilities, Procurement or Merchandising)

• You are well networked in the building & design industry and have a solid database with at least in at least two of the following areas:
o Builders & Large scale Architectural & Interior Design Firms
o Corporate & Government (facilities management), Retail (merchandising)

• You are an interior design enthusiast – this industry excites you!!!!!

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Please send your Resume to be considered for this position. Resumes to be emailed to contact AT avenueandco.com.au

When and how long is this job duration
Permanent

Location of job
Melbourne

Contact person
Michelle Bialowas