Senior Designer (Occasionwear)

We're looking for a Occasionwear Designer to lead and drive the Monsoon Occasionwear department, reporting to the Head of Design. Your role will involve developing and designing original ranges in line with overall Monsoon brand strategy, handwriting and business objectives.,

• Trend research and Sourcing - work closing with head of design to Identify and create seasonal occasion wear trends for the Monsoon Accessorize brand including key fashion shapes, fabrication, prints, embroideries, colours for the season.
• Ability to plan and range build to deliver a diverse yet cohesive collection.
• Contribute to new reference material, including industry knowledge and research for the department to use throughout the season.
• Protect and ensure identified trends and key items are completed through to sign off stage.
• Create unique, in-house collections which deliver newness and commerciality.
• Compile strong reference material, including researching, catwalk and comp shop trends, industry feedback etc to support mood boards and colour palettes.
• Producing / creating design specs and embroidery layouts. To create beautiful first samples/liase with factories/supply base to produce best in class for dept./attention to detail.
• Responsible for the day to running of dept/self, to ensure samples arrive in time and are executed to the desired level. Ensuring deadlines are met.
• Work with buying and merchandising teams to engineer garments into price architecture.
• Ownership of the occasion category to deliver new balanced collections for the department.
• Technical skills and finesse to translate brand values through beautiful embroideries and embellishments.
• Fabric sourcing.
• Passionate about Occasionwear and delivering the best for the business.
• International travel may be required.
  
  Hold a Fashion BA Hons or equivalent qualification
• Established Designer with creative and technical ability to design occasion end-use collections
• Passionate and enthusiastic to drive best for the dept.
• Have a desire to continue to learn and developing self and skill set
• Ambitious to be part of a dynamic and creative team to define the brand and occasion category.
• Self-motivated with an ability to work under own initiative
• Strong communicator with the ability to influence and persuade, and build strong working relationships
• Ability to deliver to tight timescales and work under pressure.
• A good eye for occasion woven product, both soft and structured, with a good understanding of embroidery and embellishments.
• Fabric sourcing ability and good technical skills to develop beautiful products and first samples.
• Confident in presenting collections/concepts and pitching ideas across the team.
• Confident and versatile people skills to influence and persuade wider team to vision.
• Ability to demonstrate and understanding of 'brand handwriting'
• CAD Skills- Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator
• Quick and accurate ability to hand sketch designs, attention to detail.
  
  Competitive salary
• 25 days holiday with the option to purchase additional holiday through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Bonus day holiday each year after 6 months service
• A pension that you will be automatically be enrolled in after 3 months
• Private Healthcare
• Life assurance (subject to participating in the pension scheme)
• A flexible working approach
• Early pay day Friday finish
• A generous staff discount with up to 50% discount on our products
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Additional discounts such as Westfield discount, etc
If this all sounds great and you feel you are who we are looking for, let us know and apply today. At Monsoon Accessorize we don't focus only on what we do, we also care about how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce and an environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential. We want to attract the broadest range of talented people and are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will also consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.