Designer - Lingerie/Sleepwear - South Africa

Posted on 13/12/2016

To design commercial, beautiful product that meets and exceeds customer expectations and drives sales

• Build partnerships with buying, planning, and sourcing and technology and work in an integrated way to optimise the design capability.

• Develop concepts, storyboard, sketches and drawings of new designs to be considered within the groups in line with the design direction.

• Develop fabric design using the CAD tool.

• Conduct fabric workshops.

• Review fabric and material options for the season.

• Conduct final fabric review to sign-off fabric selection for the season.

• Determine colours for the season aligned to overall trend colour palette presented.

• Review and approve seasonal colour lab dips in line with agreed seasonal colour direction.

• Develop seasonal colour boards.

• Conduct inspirational shopping.

• Identify trial opportunities in current season for future season.

• Develop design direction in prototype sample or CAD/photo sample form and present for sign off.

• Approve and sign-off on design direction and proposed continuity items in a season.

• Develop product spec pack/tech pack.

• Brief ideas, sketches and initial sample requests and costing sheets to relevant suppliers in line with sourcing strategy.

• Determine product specifications/tech pack for continuity and selected items dependent upon supplier capability.

• Develop design brief.

• Present season, including styles, looks, themes and fabrics.

• Present season, continuity and selected items, opportunities in line with strategy and design direction.

• Review and approve design brief samples and agree continuity items, volume input and input items for the season.

• Manage on time delivery of the merchandising cycle.
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• Develop, motivate, inspire and lead the design assistant and provide ongoing feedback to enhance performance and deliver the seasonal product direction.

Technical and functional competencies

• Relevant design diploma/degree.

• Two to five years' commercial/design experience.

• Deep retail skill and understanding, both local and global.

• Merchant and retail ability.

• Product knowledge.

• Creativity, taste level and flair in line with the brand.

• Ability to sketch.

• Trend analysis and editing skills.

• Ability to predict trends.

• Process thinking skills.

• Ability to work in Photoshop and Illustrator.

Behavioural competencies

• Passion for product/merchandise.

• Persuasiveness.

• Interpersonal skills – ability to work with diverse groups of people.

• Effective communication and presentation skills.

• Team player – service orientated.

• Delivering high performance.

• Driving quality.
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• Planning and organising.

Posted on 30 Nov 14:39

CONTACT DETAILS
Taudata
julie@taudata.co.za
 

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