Junior Fashion Designer at Talented Recruitment Specialists

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Trend research for merchandisers buying trip.
• Trend presentation preparation and presenting to customer (Assisting the Merchandiser).
• Photographing and numbering of overseas samples onto Swift.
• Buyers briefing with the Merchandiser.
• Create and load buyer briefs onto Swift.
• Brief the factories over email.
• Prepare & send all swatches, samples, etc needed for factory to execute the style in briefing.
• Brief additional packaging and information pertaining to each style.
• Cad overview to be emailed to factories confirming they have received all the briefs.
• Send a copy of the original brief with original sample (if needed) along with colour swatches for lab dipping to supplier.
• Checking of factory samples and lab dips against the brief (Merchandiser to be shown).
• Prepare copies of updated customer cad overviews for each customer to accompany customer production delivery reports (from Coordinator).
• Communication between customer and supplier on design/brief/colour/artwork.
• New developments.
• Weekly Cad overview updates by style/program/customer.
• Updating packaging booklets every season.
• Returning and monitoring of overseas samples not used by customers.
• Filing of overseas samples/showing samples/meeting samples.
• Rails cleaned at the end of every season i.e. fit samples, rail samples, duplicates, etc (team effort).

Requirements:

• Min 1-2 years experience in a similar role.
• Relevant qualification.
• Must be able to CAD.
• Must be proficient on illustrator.
• Experience with lingerie & sleepwear advantageous.
• Design portfolio required to view for consideration.