Assistant Designer - MW ASOS Design

ASOS.com Ltd; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discount

Sample sales

25 days annual leave

Private medical care

Fixed annual payment

Learning opportunities

Job summary

ASOS.com Ltd. is seeking an Assistant Designer for Leisure Menswear to support the Leisure Designer in researching and designing the ASOS DESIGN Leisure range. You will identify key shapes, colours and fabrics, work with suppliers, and ensure on-time development for seasonal selling periods.

Ideal candidates will have 1–2 years in fashion design, a strong sense of the ASOS brand, and proficiency in Photoshop and CAD. Travel within the UK for supplier meetings is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience in fashion design or Aspiration Brand retail environment.
• Strong understanding of ASOS customer and brand.
• Willingness to travel within UK for supplier meetings.

Responsibilities

• Assist Leisure designer by researching, developing and designing menswear leisure ranges.
• Identify key shapes, colours and fabrics to build a commercially viable range.
• React to sales data to guide trend-led ranges.
• Work with technical team on initial fits and problem solving.
• Coordinate with suppliers and factories on construction and trims.
• Maintain critical path and ensure deadlines for selling periods.
• Travel in UK for supplier meetings and international development travel.
• Collaborate with buyers to plan a balanced range and first-to-market pieces.
• Communicate performance and strategy to the team and senior management.

Skills

Trend research

Fashion design

Team collaboration

Time management

Communication

Travel willingness

Tools

Photoshop

CAD

Adobe

Job description

As an Assistant Designer, you will be working closely with the Leisure Menswear Designer, designing the amazing ASOS DESIGN Leisure ranges for our fashion loving 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.,

• Assisting the Leisure designer by researching, developing, and designing the menswear leisure ranges including casual and smart, plain and print. Identifying key shapes for the season, colour, 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 with short lead suppliers and reacting to new trends quickly.
  We'd love to meet, someone with…
• Previous experience in designing for an Aspirational Brand or similar High Street Retailer with 1-2 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. International development travel.
  We're ASOS, the online retailer for fashion lovers all around the world.

We're ASOS

We're ASOS, the online retailer for fashion lovers all around the world.

We exist to give our customers 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 judgement, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions. Everyone needs some help showing up as their best self. We're Disability Confident Committed - let our Talent team know if you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, ASOS is one of the UK's top fashion and beauty destinations, expanding globally at a rapid pace. Our values are to be authentic, brave, and creative, and we live and breathe these in everything we do. 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. It's all about newness and finding and designing the most exciting product for our 20-something customer, whatever their style.

BeneFITS'

• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
• Employee sample sales
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day for a special moment
• Private medical care scheme
• Fixed Annual Payment in addition to your salary each year, it's just an extra thank you from us
• Opportunity for personalised learning and in-the-moment experiences that enable you to thrive and excel in your role