Workwear Designer
- Sydney, NSW View on Map
- Salary: $90.00 - $100.00 / Per Annum
Job Detail
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Job ID 4709
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Career Level Executive
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Experience 4 Years
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Qualifications Degree Bachelor
Job Description
Reporting to the Head of Retail Merchandise with development of brand definition and experience principles to set the tone of designs for workwear, accessories and footwear vertical brands. Provide creative vision across all vertical brands, demonstrating ongoing knowledge of relevant trends and local awareness. Maintain processes and practices of the vision and set the bar for quality.
Working hands-on in a team of experienced creatives, designing innovative, commercial workwear and accessories that meet both industry standards and customer briefs. You’ll play a vital role in developing seasonal collections, supporting sales projects, and working directly with factories and fabric mills.
Key Responsibilities
• Develop and design concepts across multiple brands and categories. Contribute to the development of key concepts, strategies and brand positioning.
• Recognize market trends that present sales opportunities.
• Demonstrate an understanding of Hi-Vis compliant apparel V’s lifestyle workwear.
• Support the B2B business with concepts that exceed client needs through creative and innovative solutions.
• Engineer commercial product to required RRP’s/margins and ensure timely delivery of designs.
• Managing open and ongoing relationships with key factories and fabric mills.
• Work with Garment Technicians to ensure fits and brands assets are true to each brand portfolio.
• Work closely with the Marketing Team in conveying the features of each design for clear understanding of the message to market process.
• Ensure that all the organizations or client’s creative outputs/visuals are consistent with the overall brands.
• Pitch confidently and present the creative vision clearly to clients, as well as communicate in the same manner to members of the creative team.
• Update and maintain the seasonal WIP. People Responsibilities
• Ensure that constructive relationships are established and maintained within the department, across other departments and with factories plus fabric mills.
• Mentor a Junior Designer while challenging and introducing new and innovative methods of creative execution.
Experience, Qualifications and Competency Requirements Qualifications & Experience
• A degree in visual or experiential design discipline or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum five years’ experience with Illustrator, Photoshop and Excel.
• Five or more years of experience as Designer preferably in Apparel and Workwear. Functional/ Technical Skills & Competencies
• Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and determine a plan that will ensure they are met or exceeded.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to clearly and effectively communicate the creative vision, concepts, ideas, and solutions to stakeholders, internal teams, and clients.
• Ability to work effectively in a team setting, including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications.
• Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.
• Be open to receiving feedback and constructive criticism.
• Impeccable attention to detail.
• Ability to deliver results and meet objectives of the business
Salary $90K-$100K plus super