Senior Designer - Woven Evening Dresses 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? Here at ASOS, we’re looking for a passionate Designer to join our Womenswear design team. If you love creativity and designing product for the 20-something customer, 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 glob-ally at a rapid pace. Our values are to be authentic, brave, and creative, and we live and breathe these in everything we do.
The ASOS Design Team look for inspiration all around the world, along with street style, vintage shopping, music, art, the catwalk and all things creative, to de-sign 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 across multi-product category, including identifying key shapes, trends for the season, good fabric knowledge and building a range for the ASOS customer
- Reacting to sales information and design commercially relevant fashion forward ranges
- Sourcing new fabrications, techniques and trimmings. Good knowledge of fabric and fabric mills
- Working closely with in-house Buying teams – collaborating to create fresh product, each season
- Working with the technical team on fits on a weekly basis, identifying and helping create new silhouette blocks for the department
- Building relations with suppliers and advising factories on direction, silhouette, construction, key details, fabrics, trimmings and artworks.
- Managing and developing an Assistant Designer
Who we'd like to meet...
- Previous experience designing multi-product and working with pattern cutters in an aspirational brand or high street retailer.
- Previous experience of direct sourcing from fabric mills with knowledge of cut and construction.
- A Strong commercial handwriting and understanding of the ASOS Brand and Customer
- Familiarity with Photoshop, Adobe, CAD
- Wants to travel in the UK for Supplier meetings and Inspirational purposes, international development travel.
- Lives and breathes fashion and is passionate about the product
- Strong organization skills and able to use their initiative and to work in a high-pressured environment
- The ability to build great relationships with colleagues across the business and suppliers alike
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.
