Collaborating with multiple teams across the company and using your industry experience, you will research trends and historical best sellers, create design concepts, sketches and tech packs, select fabrics and trims, and oversee the production process, to follow the garments through from concept to purchasable fruition.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Lead range building sessions
- Design cohesive monthly/seasonal ranges
- Technical CAD drawings including colour/print/pattern
- Create CAD boards for each month and outfitting
- Brief graphic designer on print and direction for each month/season
- New season fabric, trim, hardware, sourcing with Suppliers
- Manage new fabric, trim, hardware development with suppliers
- Manage new woven labels/paper tags development with supplier
- Set up fabric, trim, hardware, accessories libraries to manage current and future developments
- Range Building
- Create monthly/seasonal range boards and add style details CADS, fabric, fit details
- Create excel range schedule add style details to help track where each style is in the development process
- Sampling and development process
- Work alongside garment tech for initial design handover for range development
- Create tech packs for each style with colour, labelling, trim, fabric, print/artwork details
- Collate and handover final style techpacks to all suppliers in line with critical path deadlines
- Manage all proto development/Sampling process/PP and bulk production
- Co-ordinate and run fit sessions for proto/sms/PP samples from all suppliers with garment tech
- Supplier communication and co-ordination
- Review supplier costs with Director/ range build pricing architecture to ensure product quality, make and fabrics are in line
- Qualification in Fashion and Textiles
- Experience with designing & developing accessories ideally within the fitness industry
- Extensive textiles technology knowledge
- Vast knowledge in international manufacturing standards and processes
- Expansive technical knowledge of garment construction, fit, finishes, sampling process, bulk manufacturing and Qc
- Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite and MS Office
- Strong communication skills
- High level attention to detail
- Ability to balance workload of multiple projects and communicate across departments to ensure deadlines are met