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 20something customer whatever their style.
About the Role
As a Senior Assistant Designer you will be working closely with the Womenswear Senior Denim Designer creating the ASOS DESIGN Denim range for our twenty something customer. If you love fashion design researching the latest trends and want to be part of a fastpaced fashion forward design team this could be the opportunity for you.
What Youll Be Doing
- Researching developing and designing the womenswear Denim range across both Jeans and Denim Dressing (jackets tops shirts shorts skirts jumpsuits and dresses) categories identifying key shapes for the season key washes new 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 on long lead time product as well as quick reaction short lead ranges.
Qualifications :
Who Wed Like to Meet
- Previous experience in designing for an Aspirational Brand or for a High Street Retailer with 23 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 ASOS 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.
Additional Information :
BeneFITS
- 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 for a special moment
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Private medical care scheme
- Flexible benefits allowance which you can choose to take as extra cash or use towards other benefits
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime