Junior Designer - Topman 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.
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
Want to see your designs worn by millions? As a Junior Designer at ASOS, you’ll be plugged into 20-something culture and on the pulse of the latest fashion and trends that our customers love.
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, creative and disciplined, 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.
You will be…
- Developing and designing product ranges delivering these in line with the Topman brand aesthetic.
- Owning a area within the Topman shirts category, working alongside the senior designer and print and graphics team.
- Extensive trend research including all menswear categories and ensuring speed in delivering these in line with Topman brand aesthetic.
- Supporting design team in building seasonal trends.
- Building relationships and Working closely with Buying, merchandising and technical teams to range product.
- Working with the technical team, advising factories on construction, details and artworks
- Sourcing from the supply base and building relationship with suppliers
- Traveling and researching for directional and comparative trend and product direction fitting to the Topman brand aesthetic.
- Reacting to sales information and designing commercially relevant fashion forward range
- Working with other Junior designers to create runway and trend reports, to support in delivering speed to market product.
- Owning toles and responsibilities of your categories, with the shirts team, and supporting wider categories to develop multi product experience.
We’d love to meet, someone with…
- Previous experience in Menswear/Womenswear clothing for an aspirational brand or similar High Street retailer
- Experience with Woven
- Strong commercial handwriting and understanding of the Topman Brand and Customer
- Computer Skills: Photoshop, Adobe, CAD
- Self-Motivation & Enthusiasm
- Fashion forward ideas
- Excellent verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly, effectively and appropriately with colleagues, suppliers and others at all levels
- Willingness to travel for Supplier meetings and inspirational purposes
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.
