Senior Assistant Designer - WW Footwear

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Company Description

We're ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting- edge technology, but more importantly were interested in how we can bring the best out of you.

We exist to give people 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 judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.

Through our Fashion with Integrity strategy we are driving diversity, equity and inclusion across every aspect of ASOS and ensuring every ASOSer can be their authentic self at work. We want our people to be whoever they want to be, because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work.

Job Description

About the Role

As an Assistant Designer, you will be working closely with the Senior Designers on ASOS DESIGN FOOTWEAR, supporting to design all areas of shoes, creating trend lead ranges for our twenty something customer. Candidate has an opportunity to thrive with a high energy team, there is a lot of opportunity to grow a sought after skill set. The role is on a very exciting department, we are looking for someone who loves fashion and has an endless enthusiasm for delivering new ideas and researching the latest trends! If you are looking to be part of a fast-paced, fashion forward design team this could be the opportunity for you.

What You'll Be Doing

• Researching, developing and designing ranges for ASOS DESIGN Footwear, it's a fantastic opportunity working across all categories of footwear, for both casual and dressy product areas.
• Identifying key trends, shapes and first to market styles with commerciality in mind, ensuring the most fashion forward range and choice for our global customer base.
• Create mood and colour boards sharing creative ideas to shape and develop the footwear range predicting trends for the season. This may also include shop, social media, catwalk, street style reports and cultural moments and sourcing new fabrications and trimmings.
• Working alongside the buying teams to reacted to sales information and present design ideas and develop product to drive the range.
• Building relations with suppliers and advising factories on direction, construction, key details, materials and trims.
• Anticipating the needs of our twenty something customer, using sales data, customer profile analytics and trend research to deliver commercial product range
• Adhering to the critical path to achieve deadlines, ensuring product is developed for the relevant and optimum selling period.
• Working with the technical team on initial fits. Identifying and helping problem solve for the department.
• An ability to research and develop unique product working on long lead time product, as well as quick reaction short lead ranges.
• Supporting our culture by driving Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies.

Qualifications

Who We'd Like to Meet

• Previous Footwear design experience for an aspirational Brand or High Street Retailer.
• Previous experience of working with Far East, European and UK suppliers
• A strong commercial handwriting and understanding of the ASOS Brand and Customer
• Passionate about fashion and immersed in trend, a fashion forward eye is key
• Preferred Photoshop, Adobe, CAD, PLM & hand sketch skills
• Experience with executing tech packs and sketches for product development for footwear
• Strong organisation skills and able to use their initiative and to work in a high-pressured environment
• The ability to build great relationships with colleagues across the business and suppliers alike
• Someone who is forthcoming and confident in presenting new and exciting ideas back to line managers, wider team and senior leadership.
• Someone who can identify product opportunity and help drive the brand forward.
• Comfortable and experienced in travelling in the UK and internationally for supplier/product development meetings and inspirational purposes

Additional Information

What's in it for you?

• 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 day for your birthday
• Discretionary performance related bonus scheme
• Private medical care scheme
• Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits