Job Description

As a Senior Assistant Designer, you will be working closely with the Womenswear Designer, designing the amazing ASOS DESIGN Denim 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 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'll be...

• Researching, developing, and designing the womenswear denim ranges identifying key shapes for the season, trending wash levels and techniques, key colours, researching fabric trends and supporting Senior designer to build a range which offers choice for our global customer base.
• Using sales information to identify new opportunities
• Researching current and future trends by a collection of different sources to identify newness and interpret into first to market pieces.
• Working with the technical team on initial fits. Identifying and helping problem solve for the department.
• Building relations with suppliers and advising factories on direction, construction, key details, materials, and trims.
• Adhering to the critical path to achieve deadlines, ensuring product is developed for the relevant and optimum selling period.
• An ability to research and develop unique product working on long lead time product as well as quick reaction short lead ranges.

Qualifications

We'd love to meet, someone with...

• Previous experience in designing for an Aspirational Brand or similar High Street Retailer with 2-3 years experience.
• Previous experience of working with suppliers.
• Experience in working with a buyer in planning and delivering a balanced range and first to market pieces.
• Strong commercial handwriting and understanding of the ASOS Brand and Customer.
• Computer Skills: Photoshop, Adobe, CAD.
• A Fashion forward perspective
• Strong time management.
• The confidence to identify problems and makes improvement suggestions, seeking practical ways to overcome barriers and remaining calm under pressure.
• The ability to communicate to the team & senior management the performance and strategy of the department.
• Willingness to Travel in the UK for Supplier meetings and Inspirational purposes. International development travel.

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!)

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’re we doing it?

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.