Job Description
We have an amazing role for an Assistant Designer to work for a leading UK supplier on their Menswear team.
This is an opportunity to support the team and develop your skills with a great team. A competitive salary is available for the most suitable candidate; who must be highly professional, have good organisational skills and be an excellent communicator at all levels.
Main Responsibilities Will Include:
- Conducting necessary research and product/season analysis to help create seasonal mood boards and trends to present to customers
- Assisting with designing and building commercial outerwear ranges for specific retailers & understanding their end consumer
- Producing accurate and detailed CAD drawings on Adobe Illustrator to an industry standard for sampling under supervision to be sent to factories overseas for sampling
- Creating and maintaining the fabric and trim libraries, as well as ordering fabrics/trims with nominated suppliers and uploading all fabric orders onto the internal booking system
- Working with sales/technical teams to help ensure end products are commercially viable, and in-line with customer requirements
- Accountable for photographing and tracking buyer's selections, preparing follow up meeting notes and buyer range plans and creating PDFs
- Checking / pressing / hanging / photographing and referencing all incoming and bought samples, uploading these onto the SAP accounting system
- Organising and managing the sampling and store rooms to ensure ease of access to include photography and logging all incoming and outgoing development samples
- Creating and maintaining style spreadsheets, to include chasing makers for updates and ensuring they meet deadlines
- Briefing overseas team 3D CAD projects to support customer development
Person Specifications:
- Degree or HND in fashion design (or equivalent) with interest to pursue a career within fashion design & previous experience in a menswear assistant designer role or similar
- Good CAD skills with a good knowledge of Illustrator and Photoshop
- Understanding of fabric and trim bases would be ideal
- Highly organised and capable of working to and managing deadlines
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Strong team player with ability to work on own initiative
- Entrepreneurial spirit with strong prioritisation skills and accuracy critical
