Senior Assistant Designer - Reclaimed Vintage (Unisex)

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Company Description

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.

But how are we showing up? We're proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter and we placed 8th in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer list.

Everyone needs some help showing up as their best self. Let our Talent team know if you need any adjustments throughout the process in whatever way works best for you.

Job Description

About the Role

As an Senior Assistant Designer on Reclaimed Vintage, you will be working closely with the Menswear and Womenswear Designer, helping to design the amazing Reclaimed Vintage ranges for our twenty something customer. If you love fashion design, researching the latest trends, have an eye for vintage-inspired fashion and want to be part of a fast-paced fashion forward design team this could be the opportunity for you.

What You'll be Doing

• Assisting the Reclaimed Vintage design team by researching, developing, and designing into a head-to-toe all category brand - both Menswear and Womenswear. You will be 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. Having awareness of Instagram/Tiktok Market Trends to ensure we are capturing bubbling trends fast.
• 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.
• Creating clear, concise and detailed technical packs and overseeing designs from development stage to going live on site.
• Supporting our culture by driving Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies.

Qualifications

Who We'd Like to Meet

• Candidate to have 1-3 years industry experience in a fashion design role with proven experience
• Strong commercial handwriting and understanding of the Reclaimed Vintage Brand and Customer
• Computer Skills: Photoshop, Adobe, CAD, but also great hand drawing skills.
• A fashion forward individual with strong work ethics and great 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
• Willingness to travel in the UK and Internationally as required, for supplier meetings and inspiration / development trips.

Additional Information

BeneFITS'

• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
• ASOS Develops (personal development opportunities across the business)
• Employee sample sales
• Access to a huge range of LinkedIn learning materials
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day for a special moment
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Private medical care scheme
• Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits