At a Glance

Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Interior Architecture Specialist to join the Focal Point Team in Chicago, IL. 

Focal Point has an immediate opening for an Interior Architecture Specialist to join our Architectural Systems team.  This is a unique opportunity for a future leader to join a diverse and entrepreneurial team. This Chicago-based role is primarily responsible for working with customers – interior designers, architects, contractors, and Focal Point agents, interpreting their design intent as communicated through project meetings, sketches, and architectural drawings, and realizing those designs with both 2D and 3D drawings and specifications.

The ideal candidate will be a motivated and enthusiastic self-starter who can work well under autonomy; is confident, positive, high-energy, cultured, and capable of easily interacting with corporate leadership, and is flexible and willing to get involved in many diverse activities as required in a startup environment. The Interior Architecture Specialist reports to Director, Architectural Systems.

What Will You Do?

Focal Point’s Architectural Systems team is responsible for the design and production of interior architecture systems with an emphasis on integrated ceilings, walls, and light.

Strategic Customer Project Support

• Act as a key point of contact for Architectural Systems’ customers, including architects, designers and Focal Point sales representatives.
• Liaise with architects and designers on the development of layouts, mounting details and integrated ceiling and wall systems.
• Collaborate with architects and designers to understand their documentation process and tools, developing strategies to best support these
• Work with the Architectural Systems team and outside contractors to perform space layouts, acoustic calculations and lighting calculations
• Work with customers on custom opportunities, including new installation techniques, dealing with space obstructions, or other potential modifications, by taking requests and working with the technical team to propose and develop reasonable, cost-effective solutions
• Create project take-offs and work with Focal Point’s sales team to generate quotes and orders, as needed
• Work with customers, the Product Manager, and Business Unit Lead on pricing negotiations
• Help usher projects through Focal Point’s production operation to ensure successful delivery, especially with any ‘non-standard’ products, including performing design work
• Travel to customer sites for project discussions, field installations, field support and/or post-installation wrap-ups
• Ensure timely interaction with Customer Service to resolve open customer items
• Log all customer interactions into CRM for project tracking

Product Strategy / Support

• Assist in the development of and own use of both internal and customer-facing tools to help automate and scale the design and construction process.
• Interact with market stakeholders (at Focal Point or at the customer location) and capture voice-of-customer (VOC) insights to help inform the product roadmap and strategy
• Support market research and analysis efforts, and continuously monitor – and capture information on – competitors, channels and market trends

Customer Experience

• Help lead the in-house customer experience for customers during factory visits, including production area tours, product demonstrations and sample builds
• Assist with trade show product and booth builds for Architectural System shows
• Perform in-field sales presentations and project support

Competencies & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in either Interior Design or Architecture preferred
• At least 3 years of professional work experience in architecture, interior design, engineering, or product management
• Strong visual representation and drawing skills, including 3D modeling
• Working knowledge of Revit, Rhino-Grasshopper, and Sketchup
• Outstanding analytical and organizational/project management skills
• Strong interpersonal skills; intellectually curious
• Solid work ethic; eager to be ‘hands on’ as needed to assure program
• Strong analytical / technical acumen
• Ability to ‘manage up’ and engage with corporate leadership
• Willingness to travel up to 20%

About Legrand

Representing more than 150 years of innovation, Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Our purpose is improving lives by transforming the spaces where people live, work and meet with electrical and digital infrastructures and connected solutions that are simple, innovative and sustainable. Every day, over 39,000 Legrand employees work hard to enhance the buildings of tomorrow. Legrand is a global, publicly traded company listed on the Euronext (Legrand SA EPA: LR) with revenue of €7 billion, and products sold in 180 countries. For more information, visit www.legrandgroup.com/en

About Legrand North and Central America

Legrand North and Central America (LNCA) employs over 6,500 associates in 50 locations, working across six divisions/sector: Audio Visual, Building Controls Systems, Data Power and Controls, Electrical Wiring Systems, and Lighting.  We hold a leading position in every North American market we serve and focus on exceeding our customers’ needs within the commercial, residential, and industrial industries. LNCA offers comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage, as well as distinctive benefits like a high employer 401K match, above-benchmark paid maternity and parental leave, paid time off to volunteer, and an active/growing Employee Resource Group network.  LNCA is an employee-centered, growing company with tremendous opportunity.  For more information, visit legrand.us

About Legrand’s Lighting Sector

Legrand’s Lighting Sector consists of five lighting brands; Pinnacle, Finelite, Focal Point, and OCL which focus on architectural, decorative, and downlighting and Kenall which focuses on lighting for demanding environments.  We employ a talented group of employees that love lighting to design and manufacture high performance, energy efficient LED lighting solutions for applications in commercial, educational, healthcare, as well as challenging environments such as tunnels and correctional facilities.  With an eye toward sustainable design, our focus is on specification-oriented products and solutions that meet the functional needs of spaces while working in harmony with the designer’s vision for those spaces. We work with architects, engineers, and contractors to supply lighting built specifically for their client’s projects.   

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