Senior Assistant Designer - WW Denim

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 fast-paced fashion forward design team this could be the opportunity for you. You'll be...

• 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., PLEASE NOTE: When attaching your CV or work examples it is very important that you name your files to include your name and not just "cv.doc" or "curriculum vitae.docx" or "my_illustration.jpg". Instead use a format like this "joe_bloggs_cv.docx"
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• At least 2 years' experience in designing for an Aspirational Brand or for a High Street Retailer
• Experience of working with Far East, European and UK suppliers.
• Experience 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.
• CAD skills
• A fashion-forward perspective
• Strong time management.
• Confidence to identify problems and make improvement suggestions, seeking practical ways to overcome barriers and remaining calm under pressure.
• Ability to communicate to the team & senior management the performance and strategy of the department.
• Willingness to Travel across the UK for Supplier meetings and Inspirational purposes.
  
  We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.
  
  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