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Womenswear Assistant Jersey Designer
Supergroup
Cheltenham, , United Kingdom
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The Role
A fantastic opportunity has arisen to support our Womenswear Jersey Designers to build and deliver a range of Jersey product. You will be versatile and dynamic in order to drive newness and innovation across the category with flexibility to work across multiple products, whilst working at pace to deliver against critical path deadlines.
You will
• Assist the womenswear Jersey department designing amazing new product in a wide range of fabrics and styles in line with critical path deadlines
• Support with the development of the overall seasonal direction with the team
• Prepare a series of design ideas and inspirations for each season
• Work with the graphic designers to produce technical garment specifications and create technical design specification packs
• Be able to demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the supply base and their product capabilities
• Be responsible for capturing meeting notes in all womenswear Jersey meetings, ensuring that all design and colour amendments are noted
• Be responsible for the day to day organisation of the jersey department, including the creation and maintenance of the seasonal development ‘line list’ for all women’s jersey product development
• Attend fit sessions in order to communicate garment fit requirements, ensuring technical execution of graphic techniques and fabric hand feel is executed to the highest level
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of the target customer and actively contribute to departmental strategy meetings
• Be able to demonstrate an awareness of colour, fabric direction and innovation
• Design outstanding product whilst maintaining design integrity
• Regularly monitor competitor activity and report appropriate information
You are
• Artistic, with outstanding flare and style
• Educated to degree level in Fashion Design at First or Upper Second class level
• Passionate, with commitment for design and trend
• Experienced in a similar role ideally within the fashion industry
• Proficient in Illustrator / Photoshop as well as a basic level of Excel and Word
• Experienced in email management and experience of communicating with suppliers
• Highly organised
• Massively passionate about our brand
• Impeccable attention to detail
• Highly motivated and driven
• Able to cope well under pressure
• A team player and always positive with a can-do approach
• Able to prioritise and problem solve
• Happy with foreign travel, as each season in order to develop products directly with the supply base
When applying for this role please attach a copy of your portfolio.
What we offer
• Excellent basic salary, pension, life insurance, 50% staff discount