Junior Designer - Jersey & Lounge - #1778666

Our Role

As a Junior Jersey Designer, you will design across the jersey and lounge category. You will support the Design Manager in delivering TWC Clothing strategy together with the BMDT teams helping to develop ways to build the Brand image, strengthen TWC market position and increase profits through your designs. You will have an excellent eye for quality and luxury with a sharp awareness of relevant fashion trends and an understanding of how to influence TWC customer in a timely manner.

You will contribute and collaborate on the seasonal concept, driving your department’s design direction while ensuring alignment with the Design team’s overall vision.

You will identify new product opportunities and emerging trends, working closely with the buying teams to develop commercially viable and customer-appropriate designs for TWC.

What you’ll be doing

• Gather trends and inspiration for product ranges and create design product spec packs for jersey.
• Constantly developing the range working closely with the buying and technical teams and suppliers to translate your designs into commercially viable product advising on construction, details, or artworks. Ensure the range evolves and continues to meet the demands of TWC customer
• Work alongside the Buying and Merchandising teams to ensure your ideas are communicated
• Ensure all designs are executed and meet your departments’ critical path dates
• Working alongside the Design manager to produce a co-ordinated clothing collection with the ability to ensure your designs can be used as part of the key outfits and key looks
• Sourcing from the supply base and building relationships with suppliers
• Travelling and researching directional and comparative trend and product direction
• Reacting to sales information and designing commercially relevant ranges
• Identifying & sourcing new yarns or components for new sample development to drive new product and range development for the customer
• Maintain an in-depth understanding of the market, supplier base, competition, and customer requirements across your departments in particular
  
  

What Skills & Experience You’ll Need

• Previous experience as a womenswear designer with a premium athleisure or international fashion brand ideally at TWC level of the market (entry luxury)
• Strong sketching and cad skills
• Strong track record with creative & commercial success and experience working within a retail BMDT team
• BA degree in Fashion/Textiles design or equivalent
  
  

What will make you brilliant at this role

• Ability to work within a team building relationships based on shared values and respect.
• Good verbal and visual communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly, effectively and appropriately with colleagues, suppliers and others at all levels
• Excellent sketch & spec skills to understand garment production. Computer skills ideally to include Photoshop, Illustrator, CAD
• Appetite for design influences and a strong eye. An original thinker
• Able to work under own initiative & the flexibility to do a variety of tasks
• Strong enthusiasm for TWC as a brand
• Ability to work under pressure and with strong personalities
  
  

What we’ll offer you

At The White Company, we value our employees for always going the extra mile for every one of our customers; we reward this with great benefits and competitive salaries.

• Discount -Up to 50% discount and access to regular Sample Sales
• Holiday - 25 days rising to 28 with length of service
• 10% Bonus - In addition to our competitive salaries, all our employees are entitled to join a discretionary bonus scheme (based on policy eligibility
• Pension Scheme - enrolled in our Group Personal Pension schemes upon joining the business.
• Perkplace Benefits Platform – offering a variety of discounts across well-being and lifestyle
• Wagestream Money Management app - access to Wagestream gives you power over your pay and supports financial wellbeing
• Continued Development – We offer structured support from our own in-house Learning and Development Hub
• Salary Sacrifice scheme for Electric vehicles (dependent on grade and meeting policy eligibility)
• Continued Development – We offer structured support from our own in-house Learning and Development Hub
• Private Healthcare with additional Babylon Digital Healthcare (based on contract duration)
• Life Assurance
  
  

Additional Benefits

• Fruit basket daily
• Tea and coffee provided
• Working from Home - option to work from home on Mondays and Fridays
• Social - Christmas party/social events throughout the year
• Seasonal Sample Sales
• Volunteer Day - with a charity of your choice
• Great Location - Close to transport links - over ground Shepherds Bush station /underground White City & Wood Lane stations. Westfield shopping centre with shops restaurants/bars/cinema and gyms
  
  

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At The White Company we are committed to creating an inclusive culture that welcomes and celebrates a diversity of backgrounds and identities.

We are working together to ensure our environment is one where people can bring their authentic selves to work, where their contribution is valued, ability enhanced, and perspective appreciated. Where difference is respected, encouraged, and celebrated. Where you can feel you belong.

We are committed to an active Equality Diversity and Inclusion Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process.

We'd love you to join us on our journey.

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We are committed to building a sustainable legacy that will enable a brighter future for people and our planet.’ We believe this should be reflected in everything we do