Assistant Designer - Glasgow, United Kingdom - U&I Search Ltd
Description
Our client is a fast paced multi product fashion business who due to phenomenal growth have a fantastic opportunity for a Assistant Designer to join their team.
The business worked with multiple retailers, higher end brands and also overseas retailers.They are are a vertical integrated design and manufacturing company specializing in knitted garments (sweats, jersey gym wear and active wear products), with wholly owned manufacturing in 3 locations:
Ningbo, Jiang Xu and Cambodia
This role will suit a graduate fashion designer who is pro-active, trend driven with an innovative approach to their work.
You will assist the designer across multiproduct clothing and have excellent CAD skills. Working collaboratively with the merchandising team to deliver a smooth product development process to their key customers.Reporting to the Head of Design you will be proactive across the business, putting business needs first and being a fantastic team player with a positive attitude within our ever-growing design team.
Assistant Designer - The Role:
- Keeping up to date with emerging fashion trends fabric, colour, prints, graphics, techniques, shape. Identifying areas for development each season, along with identifying trends for ladies and mens and childrenswear
- Designing collections that must be suitable for the target market.
- Liaising closely with the Merchandising teams in both the UK & Far East.
- Managing own workload and deadlines and being aware of deadlines around you and being able to help other team members.
- Complete design packs for factories, in an accurate and clear manner.
- Assist in sourcing and developing fabrics and techniques that fit with the customers' requirements each season that also fits into cost boundaries.
- Taking responsibility for keeping design documents up to date.
- Minimum 6 months proven, commercial design experience
- Excellent organisational and good planning skills, with an attention to detail
- Competent CAD user, with a strong knowledge of the adobe package with a strong focus on Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
- Adaptability/flexibility and very comfortable sharing ideas and working in a team, similarly, be able to work unsupervised in an accurate, methodical and organised manner.
- An ability to prioritise and multitask, and work to critical, sometimes tight deadlines
- Must have a commercial eye and be able to design both garment shapes and graphics and be selfmotivated and confident in their abilities.
- Must be proactive driving new creatives/ideas for your accounts.
- To understand costings and be able to design into customer price points, alongside being able to assist the factory with engineering garments that fit into customers price points.
Assistant Designer - The Package:
- Competitive depending on experience
- Good holidays
- Performance related bonus
Job Reference:
- J92147
Date Posted: - 15 March 2023
Recruiter: - U&I Search Ltd
Location: - Glasgow
Salary: - On Application
Sector: - Design
Job Type: - Permanent
Work Hours: - Full time
Contact: - Jo
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