Established Garment Technologist (Fixed Term Contract) London, England
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.
- Support strategy within dept, contributing towards the business targets and objectives
- Deliver an optimized E2E development & virtual fitting process within dept and suppliers, supporting speed, reduction in samples and cost savings
- Build/develop new processes and pioneering/industry leading technologies to support continuous improvement in quality, speed to market and product innovation
- Deliver new ways of working with Design, buying and suppliers to ensure quality is built into product at very early development stage
- Review and update the ASOS technical manual to deliver leading quality, make up and construction standard guidelines,
- Implement supplier Quality performance strategy, ensuring optimised sealing hit rate- leading to improved customer quality perception and reduce customer returns
- Support the business shift from Quality Control to Quality Assurance for all production stages offering technical guidelines, product specification knowledge and proactive processes within supplier base
- Execute departmental customer returns strategy to drive reduction in returns rates to support cost savings
- Drive Technical capabilities within the supplier base to deliver quality, placing the right product in the right factory with right cost and right lead time
- Implement business initiatives to deliver quality consistency, speed to market and cost savings
- Significant experience in an Established/Garment Technologist role
- Passionate about the role and driving high standards of quality and fit within your department(s)
- Expert knowledge of pattern cutting and grading
- Significate experience of working within a high street retailer and/or supplier / manufacturer
- Adapt to and drive change and take the initiative
- Strong communication and networking skills across all levels and stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build cross-functional relationships across the business and with suppliers
- Reliable, flexible, and good at leading a fast-paced team
- Good working knowledge of MS Office
- Strong leadership, organisational and prioritisation skills
Additional Information
What's in it for you
- Competitive salary, pension, and private medical care scheme
- Performance related bonus
- Flex benefits allowance - which you can chose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
- 25 days paid annual leave + an extra day for your birthday
- Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
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.
