Assistant Designer - Jersey Day Dresses

THE TEAM

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.

What you'll be doing...

• Researching, developing, and designing ranges for ASOS DESIGN Jersey Day Dresses, including 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 on long lead time product as well as quick reaction short lead ranges.

Requirements

Who We’d Like to Meet...

• Previous experience in designing for an Aspirational Brand or similar High Street Retailer.
• Previous experience of working with Far East, European and UK suppliers
• Experience in working with a Buyer to plan and deliver 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 and Internationally as required, for supplier meetings and inspiration / development trips