Assistant Designer - WW Jersey
Location
North London | United Kingdom
Job description
As an Assistant Designer, you will be working closely with the Senior Designer, designing the amazing ASOS DESIGN ranges for our twenty something 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
ASOS is one of the UKs 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. Its all about newness and finding and designing the most exciting product for our 20-something customer, whatever their style.
What you'll be doing...
- Researching, developing, and designing ranges for ASOS DESIGN FORMAL JERSEY, including identifying key shapes for the season, colour, fabric and building a range which offers choice for our global customer base.
- Working on an exciting, fast-paced department, creating First to Market product, reacting to the most exciting new trends.
- Researching and designing current and future trends by a collection of different sources to identify newness and interpret into first to market pieces.
- Working with the fabric team, sourcing the newest fabrics.
- Reacting to sales information and design commercially relevant fashion forward ranges.
- 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 on long lead time product as well as quick reaction short lead ranges.
Who We'd Like to Meet...
- Experience in designing for an aspirational brand or similar High Street Retailer.
- Eexperience of working with Europea, UK and Far East suppliers.
- Experience in working with a Buyer to plan and deliver a balanced range and first to market pieces
- Strong commercial handwriting and understanding of the ASOS Brand and Customer
- Computer Skills: Photoshop, Adobe, CAD, but also great hand drawing skills.
- 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 and Internationally as required, for supplier meetings and inspiration / development trips
What's in it for you?
- Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
- ASOS Develops (personal development opportunities across the business)
- Employee sample sales
- Access to a huge range of LinkedIn learning materials
- 25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day
- Discretionary performance related bonus scheme
- Private medical care scheme
- Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
Our Commitments
We want our people to be whoever they want to be. Thats why were committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at ASOS, but howre we doing it?
Were proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. Weve also recently been placed 8th in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer List too.
We have several employee networks that operate as safe spaces, to help support and celebrate our people, find out more here.
How can we support you to be your best self? Our Talent team will be happy to provide support e.g. if you need additional time to prepare for an assessment or you have requirements for any part of the interview/hiring process - just let us know by email or phone, whatever works best for you. Its also our policy to interview all candidates with a disability who meet the minimum requirements for roles they have applied to.
If you have any questions about the policies we have in place to support our employees (e.g. our parental leave approach), just let our Talent team know.
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