Assistant Designer

Description

As an Assistant Designer, you will be working closely with the Leisure Menswear Designer, designing the amazing the company DESIGN Leisure ranges for our fashion loving customer. If you love fashion design, researching the latest trends and want to be part of a fast-paced fashion forward design team this could be the opportunity for you.

THE TEAM

The company is one of the UK’s top fashion and beauty destinations, expanding globally at a rapid pace. Our values are to be authentic, brave, and creative, and we live and breathe these in everything we do.

The Design Team look for inspiration all around the world, along with street style, vintage shopping, music, art, the catwalk and all things creative, to design the latest product for the range. It’s all about newness and finding and designing the most exciting product for our 20-something customer, whatever their style.

You’ll be…

Assisting the Leisure designer by researching, developing, and designing the menswear leisure ranges including casual and smart, plain and print. Identifying key shapes for the season, colour, fabric and building a range which offers choice for our global customer base.

Reacting to sales information and design commercially relevant fashion forward ranges.

Researching current and future trends by a collection of different sources to identify newness and interpret into first to market pieces.

Working with the technical team on initial fits. Identifying and helping problem solve for the department.

Building relations with suppliers and advising factories on direction, construction, key details, materials, and trims.

Adhering to the critical path to achieve deadlines, ensuring product is developed for the relevant and optimum selling period.

An ability to research and develop unique product working with short lead suppliers and reacting to new trends quickly.

Responsibilities

• As an Assistant Designer, you will be working closely with the Leisure Menswear Designer, designing the amazing the company DESIGN Leisure ranges for our fashion loving customer. If you love fashion design, researching the latest trends and want to be part of a fast-paced fashion forward design team this could be the opportunity for you.
• THE TEAM
• The company is one of the UK’s top fashion and beauty destinations, expanding globally at a rapid pace. Our values are to be authentic, brave, and creative, and we live and breathe these in everything we do.
• The Design Team look for inspiration all around the world, along with street style, vintage shopping, music, art, the catwalk and all things creative, to design the latest product for the range. It’s all about newness and finding and designing the most exciting product for our 20-something customer, whatever their style.
• You’ll be…
• Assisting the Leisure designer by researching, developing, and designing the menswear leisure ranges including casual and smart, plain and print. Identifying key shapes for the season, colour, fabric and building a range which offers choice for our global customer base.
• Reacting to sales information and design commercially relevant fashion forward ranges.
• Researching current and future trends by a collection of different sources to identify newness and interpret into first to market pieces.
• Working with the technical team on initial fits. Identifying and helping problem solve for the department.
• Building relations with suppliers and advising factories on direction, construction, key details, materials, and trims.
• Adhering to the critical path to achieve deadlines, ensuring product is developed for the relevant and optimum selling period.
• An ability to research and develop unique product working with short lead suppliers and reacting to new trends quickly.

Requirements

• We’d love to meet, someone with…
• Previous experience in designing for an Aspirational Brand or similar High Street Retailer with 1-2 years experience.
• Previous experience of working with Far East, European and UK suppliers.
• Experience in working with a buyer in planning and delivering a balanced range and first to market pieces.
• Strong commercial handwriting and understanding of the company Brand and Customer.
• Computer Skills: Photoshop, Adobe, CAD.
• A Fashion forward perspective
• Strong time management.
• The confidence to identify problems and makes improvement suggestions, seeking practical ways to overcome barriers and remaining calm under pressure.
• The ability to communicate to the team & senior management the performance and strategy of the department.
• Willingness to Travel in the UK for Supplier meetings and Inspirational purposes. International development travel.
• Additional Information

Benefits

• Employee discount (hello the company discount!)
• Employee sample sales
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day for a special moment
• Private medical care scheme
• Fixed Annual Payment in addition to your salary each year, it's just an extra thank you from us
• Opportunity for personalised learning and in-the-moment experiences that enable you to thrive and excel in your role
• Company Description
• We're the company, the online retailer for fashion lovers all around the world.
• We exist to give our customers the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too.
• Everyone needs some help showing up as their best self. We're Disability Confident Committed - let our Talent team know if you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process