Job Description

Description

Design

• Leading key milestone meetings including: Fabric meetings, Concept Meetings, Sketch Reviews and Brief Sheet deadline dates, in
• accordance to the Critical Path, to ensure samples arrive back in time for Sign Off Meetings.
• Driving the Design direction and key trends for the Dresses, Woven Tops and Soft Skirts categories.
• Identifying and delivering detailed style direction to develop existing products, as well as proposing new product opportunities
• Ensuring product ranges are innovative and in line with the handwriting, consistent with brand vision and direction.
• Entrepreneurial approach to think outside of the box and design passionate collections.
• Ensuring Fabric Trends are sourced promptly and in accordance to the CP to actively push these in to the ranges.
• Developing and maintaining an in-depth understanding of the market, supplier base, competitors and customer segments
• Collaborating with the Buyer to ensures all bestselling styles have been updated and moved on to fully capitalise on opportunities
• Analyse effectiveness and efficiency of Design activities against relevant benchmarks and ensure that future activities are progressively
• more effective and efficient, including hit rate and oversampling.
• Create Story Boards with the GM - Product and Brand, for the Stories ahead, in accordance to the CP.

Financial Accountability

• Alongside the Buyer, utilise weekly trade reports and forward projections to trade the department
• Range achieves sales and profit KPI\'s each season
• Ensure the range delivers innovation, flexibility, quality, speed to market and is within pricing strategy
• Generation of new ideas to improve sales and profitability
• Range Building
• Drive department strategies alongside the Buyer, use this to build a balanced range reflective of market mindset and department
• Teamwork
• Build effective relationships with the team, suppliers, and key stakeholders across the business
• Take full responsibility for department KPI performance
• Positively contribute to a cohesive team environment
• Maximise team performance through effective collaboration to drive efficiency and profitability

Requirements

Qualifications

• Degree in Fashion Design

Skills & Experience

• 5+ years in a similar role within womenswear apparel
• Excellent knowledge of all fabrications and product categories
• Experience working in the Canada fashion industry
• Familiarity in dealing within a fast-paced dynamic environment
• Strong technical knowledge and garment construction skills
• Extensive fabric and raw material knowledge
• Demonstrate a high understanding of all critical path elements and their impact on sales
• Computer literacy in Computer literacy in InDesign, Illustrator, CAD and PowerPoint
• Computer literacy in desktop products, including Microsoft Office (Outlook and Word)

Behaviours & Attributes

• Knows, accepts and adheres to all policies, procedures, guidelines and standards
• Results driven and ability to multitask
• Ability to work effectively and level-headed under pressure
• Sound commercial acumen and business judgement
• Ability to demonstrate initiative and effectively plan and be proactive in all facets of the role
• Demonstrate effective interpersonal, communication and networking abilities
• Outstanding organisational and problem-solving skills

Position Type

Permanent

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