Entry Assistant Designer - Menswear Footwear London
Job 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.
THE ROLE
As an Assistant Designer on the Footwear team, you will be working closely with the Senior Designer, to create 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.
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 Footwear ranges for ASOS Design, including identifying key shapes for the season, colour, fabrication and helping build a range which offers choice for our global customer base.
- Reacting to sales information and helping design commercially relevant fashion forward ranges.
- Researching current and future trends using a variety of sources to identify newness and interpret into first to market pieces.
- Attending fit session with the technical team and helping identify and problem solve for the department.
- Building relations with suppliers and supporting the Senior designer in briefing the factories on direction, construction, key details, materials, and trims.
- Working to the critical path to achieve deadlines, ensuring product is developed for the relevant and optimum selling period.
Who we'd love to meet...
- Previous experience in designing for an aspirational brand or similar High Street Retailer.
- Footwear experience is essential.
- Previous experience of working with Far East and European suppliers.
- Experience in working with a Buyer to plan and deliver a balanced range including first to market pieces
- Strong commercial handwriting and understanding of the ASOS Design Brand and Customer
- Computer Skills: Photoshop, Illustrator,
- A fashion forward perspective
- Strong time management
- The confidence to identify problems and make suggestions for improvement, seeking practical ways to overcome barriers and remaining calm under pressure
- The ability to communicate ideas, department strategy and performance to the team & senior management
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
Our Commitments
We want our people to be whoever they want to be. That’s why we’re committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at ASOS, but how are we doing it?
We’re proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We’ve also recently been placed 8th in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer List too.
We have several employee networks that operate as safe spaces, to help support and celebrate our people - find out more here.
Do you need any reasonable adjustments? Our recruitment team will be happy to support you in the best way possible if you feel comfortable raising this. It’s also our policy to interview all candidates with a disability who meet the minimum requirements for roles they have applied to.
If you have any questions about the policies we have in place to support our employees (e.g. our parental leave approach), just let our Talent team know.
