Assistant Designer

Job Description

At N Brown we are looking for an Assistant Designer to join our team. Working at N Brown in a Manchester City Centre office base with parking, socially distancedworkstationsand sanitizing stations around the businessyou will receive a benefits package including 24 days annual leave (plus 8 bank holidays) with the option to buy an additional 10 over the year, company pension with up to 6% N Brown contribution, life assurance, private medical insurance, annual bonus scheme, incredible colleague discount across all our N Brown Group brands (Simply Be,Jacamo,JD Williams,Fashion World,Figleaves,Marisota,Ambrose Wilsonto name a few), local restaurant discounts across Manchester’s Northern Quarter, onsite café at great subsidised rates, great tech to enable you to not only make doing your job easy but to also allow you to workfrom anywhere with a great WIFI connectionplus flexible working, as well as staggered start times, we know these are different times and have embraced them to ensure our staff are supported.N Brown group have been trading in the heart of Manchester for over 150 years. Our vision is to become the universally loved experts in fashion that fits by helping our customers’ look and feel amazing through our trusted family of brands. The purpose of this role is to support the Design team and help with the development of new and innovative products in line with our competitors. You’ll be responsible for the delivery of key trends, colour and shape direction to the business through production of trend books and presentations.You will support the product selection process to deliver exciting and commercial product ranges, delivering optimal brand and customer performance whilst demonstrating full understanding of our customers’ needsin regard toshape, fit and trend direction.As an Assistant Designer you will be responsible for:- Supportingthe design team by in delivering key trends, colour and shape direction by providing co- ordination and administration of design materials, imagery, samples and tracking of activity.- Ensuring that the right level of newness isachieved to create exciting ranges displaying innovationin terms of product opportunity and to identify new and developing trends.- Designing, developing and executing a specific on-trend product rangetaking into accountrequirements for all selling channels.- Supportingthe Design team in the modernisation and design of key product ranges in line withcompetitors and future trends.- The preparation, analysis and presentation of research on specific products; providing competitor assessments and shopping reports.- Creating system management of design information and online attributes.- Attending,and contributing,to theregular departmental creative meetings,suggesting ideas for future trends andprovidingupdates on work activities.The successful Assistant Designer will have the following skills and experience:- Excellent womenswear product knowledge.- Provendesign systems, CAD, Adobe and Illustrator knowledge.- Aninnovative, flexible, creativeandforward-thinkingapproach to work.- Excellent time managementand an organised and planned approachto your work.- Strong verbal and writtencommunicationskills are essential, along with the ability to influence and build relationships with key stakeholders.This is the perfect opportunity for an experienced assistant / junior designer, or graduate, with a related degreehaving spentsometime in industry,looking to broaden their experience or start to grow their career in one of the UK’s largest online women’s retailers.If this sounds like the Assistant Designer role for you, click the apply link online and complete the application form today!Employees in our business may have access to our customers’ personal data therefore fora number ofour roles, offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory criminal record check.Having a criminal record will not n