Embroidery Design Developer

Erdem; City Of London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A luxury fashion brand is seeking an Embroidery Design Developer to manage embroidery development for collections and ensure budget compliance. The ideal candidate will have over 3 years of experience in embroidery development within a luxury context, demonstrating strong technical and communication skills. Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Excel is essential for this role, as is the ability to work collaboratively within a team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience within Embroidery Development at luxury positioning.
• Strong understanding of technical aspects of embroidery, garment construction, and raw materials.
• Experience in embroidery costing and budget management.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for embroidery development across collections and special projects.
• Creation and management of seasonal critical path for design and development.
• Management of seasonal budget and costings for all embroideries.

Skills

Technical embroidery knowledge

Negotiation skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Team player

Initiative and drive

Education

Degree level or similar

Tools

Adobe Illustrator

Photoshop

Excel

Job description

Embroidery Design Developer

Job Description

A studio based role, supporting the design and development team functions with regards to embroidery design and development. To support and drive margin while delivering quality and aesthetic brand requirements. This role reports into the Design Director.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for embroidery development across 4 main seasonal collections, and capsules and special projects where embroidery is required.
• Creation and management of seasonal critical path, driving this forward at all stages of the design / development process.
• Supporting the Embroidery Designer during the design process with technical knowledge, choosing suppliers, management of work priority based on critical path and ensuring pricing and commercial criteria are being met.
• Management of seasonal budget.
• Working on pre costings and final costings for all embroideries together with PD manager and Merchandiser manager throughout the season, to ensure target prices and margins are being met.
• Management of all embroidery developments with external suppliers, building strong relationships with each to ensure realisation of styles are completed to required brief and within costing targets.
• Handling various aspects of all embroidery launches. Including, preparing and sending base fabrics, writing and sending instructions, sending final artwork files and target prices and managing deadlines with the suppliers.
• Working with external suppliers to create placed artworks and adjust component usage and techniques to ensure that realised product is viable for production.
• Monitor all stages of WIP, sending comments and approvals at the required times and checking all completed panels once received.
• Thorough handover of panels to RTW Product Developer and Technical team for SMS creation.
• Working together with Embroidery Designer to make sure all embroidery artworks are completed on time.
• Supplier management, ensuring clarity of information for both sampling and production.
• Management of production handover / sealing dates, ensuring product is resolved sufficiently in order for production to commence.
• Responsible for completion of Production artworks where necessary.
• Checking and approving Invoices.
• Manage all shipments to and from external suppliers.
• Management and booking of external freelancers.
• Record keeping of all seasonal documentation.
• Participation in pre-shoot and pre-show activities.
• Travelling to external suppliers if required.

Requirements

• Degree level or similar.
• 3+ years of experience within Embroidery Development at luxury positioning.
• A strong understanding of technical aspects of embroidery, garment construction and raw materials.
• Experience in embroidery costing and budget management.
• Organised, efficient and critical path focused with strong negotiation skills.
• A strong understanding of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Good knowledge in Excel.
• Initiative and drive.
• Team player.
• Good communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.