THE ROLE

As a Senior Assistant Designer, you will be working closely with the Womenswear Designer, designing the amazing ASOS DESIGN Formal Jersey 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.

You’ll be…

• Assisting with researching, developing, and designing the womenswear formal jersey range, including identifying key shapes for the season, colour, fabric and building a range which offers choice for our global customer base. This will include glam going out product, occasion, formal daywear (e.g. brunch dressing) and workwear.

• Reacting to sales information and design commercially relevant fashion forward ranges.

• Researching current and future trends through a collection of different sources to identify newness and interpret into first to market pieces, working on long lead time product as well as quick reaction short lead ranges.

• Assisting the designer in creating trend boards, customer profiles, comp shop reports, and preparing range boards using CAD.

• Building relations with suppliers and advising factories on direction, construction, key details, materials, and trims. Working with suppliers and fabric mills to identify and source new fabrics and trims and organising and maintaining a fabric and trim library.

• Creating artworks for embellishment and embroidery placements.

• Working with the technical team on initial fits. Identifying and helping problem solve for the department.

• Adhering to the critical path to achieve deadlines, ensuring product is developed for the relevant and optimum selling period.

We’d love to meet, someone with…

• Previous experience in designing for an aspirational brand or similar High Street Retailer, with around 2 years experience.

• Previous experience of working with Far East, European and UK suppliers.

• Experience of working with a buyer in planning and delivering a balanced range and first to market pieces.

• An eye for trend and strong commercial handwriting and understanding of the ASOS Brand and Customer.

• Computer Skills: Photoshop, Adobe, CAD, as well as the ability to hand sketch.

• A Fashion forward perspective

• Strong time management.

• The confidence to identify problems and make 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.

What's in it for you?

• Competitive salary, bonus and pension matching

• Life insurance, free private medical care, cycle to work scheme + more

• A bespoke flexible benefits scheme catered to you

• Best in class Learning & Development schemes and career development programmes

• 25 days holiday + never work on your birthday again!

• Free modern onsite gym, plus personal training and wellness rooms

• A dynamic social environment, from company-wide sports days, charity days, ‘Give A Week Away’ opportunities to visit our charity partners in India & company-wide celebrations to name just a few

• Huge staff discounts and sample sales