Assistant Designer

THE ROLE

As an Assistant Designer, you will be working closely with the Designer/Senior Designer, designing the amazing ASOS DESIGN ranges for our twenty something customer. If you love fashion design, researching the latest trends and want to be part of a fast-paced fashion forward design team this could be the opportunity for you.

You’ll be…

• Researching, developing, and designing ranges for ASOS DESIGN, 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

We’d love to meet, someone with…

• Previous experience in designing for an Aspirational Brand or similar High Street Retailer.
• Previous experience of working with suppliers
• Strong commercial handwriting and understanding of the ASOS Brand and Customer
• Computer Skills: Illustrator, Photoshop, Adobe,
• 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.
• Willingness to travel in the UK and Internationally if 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