Womenswear Garment Technologist /12 Month Fixed Term Contract/London

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

Job summary

A leading fashion brand in the City Of London is seeking a multi-product womenswear designer for a 12-month Fixed Term Contract. You will play a key role in ensuring product quality and collaborating with various teams to achieve KPIs. The ideal candidate should have a solid understanding of fitting and manufacturing processes. This position offers a dynamic work environment and the chance to contribute to industry innovations.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of fitting and manufacturing processes.
• Experience in risk assessing product quality standards.
• Strong analytical skills for handling quality issues.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with various teams to ensure quality standards are maintained.
• Support Head of category to achieve KPIs.
• Analyse quality issues and implement corrective action plans.

Job description

Job Overview

We are working with a great brand who are looking for a multi-product womenswear designer on a 12 month Fixed Term Contract.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with Buying, Merchandising, Design, Digital, Fabric and the supply base, you'll need to draw on your solid understanding of the various fitting and manufacturing processes and costings.
• Supporting the Head of category to achieve KPIs, including right first‑time sealing hit rate.
• Working with the Design/ Buying team to get a 'right first time' sample and improve sealing hit rate.
• Taking ownership of the fit and sealing process.
• Risk assessing product quality standards and production issues including safety, wearer trials, performance, minimum make standards and potential production issues.
• Using lessons learnt, benchmarking through comparative shopping, working collaboratively with digital teams, Fabric and suppliers to make sure Quality Standards are maintained.
• Analysing quality issues and customer returns within your department, putting corrective action plans and workable timeframes in place.
• Ensuring that the correct block and fabric reference is selected during Design Brief stage prior to being sent to supplier.
• Delivering Supplier Self Gold Seal status to ensure suppliers meet criteria for Self‑Approval.
• Responding to Customer complaints and queries.
• Keeping up to date with industry innovations, networking internally and externally to identify opportunities.