Join ASOS as an Assistant Designer - MW ASOS Design in London, United Kingdom. In this full-time role, you will assist the Leisure Menswear Designer in researching, developing, and designing trend-setting menswear ranges for a global customer base.
Requirements
1-2 years of experience designing for an aspirational brand or high street retailer.
Experience working with Far East, European, and UK suppliers.
Proficiency in Photoshop, Adobe, and CAD.
Strong commercial handwriting and understanding of the ASOS brand.
Willingness to travel within the UK and internationally.
Skills & Responsibilities
Trend Research: Research current and future trends from diverse sources to identify newness and create first-to-market pieces.
Range Building: Assist in designing menswear leisure ranges by identifying key shapes, colors, fabrics, and prints for a global audience.
Supplier Collaboration: Build relationships with suppliers and advise factories on direction, construction, and materials.
Technical Support: Work with the technical team on initial fits and help problem-solve for the department.
Potential transition routes: People from junior fashion designer or allocator roles may bring strong CAD and trend analysis skills, alongside meeting commercial menswear design experience requirements.
Job description
Company Description
We're ASOS, the online retailer for fashion lovers all around the world.
We exist to give our customers the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgement, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.
Everyone needs some help showing up as their best self. We're Disability Confident Committed - let our Talent team know if you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process
Job Description
THE ROLE
As an Assistant Designer, you will be working closely with the Leisure Menswear Designer, designing the amazing ASOS DESIGN Leisure ranges for our fashion loving customer. If you love fashion design, researching the latest trends and want to be part of a fast-paced fashion forward design team this could be the opportunity for you.
THE TEAM
ASOS is one of the UK’s top fashion and beauty destinations, expanding globally at a rapid pace. Our values are to be authentic, brave, and creative, and we live and breathe these in everything we do.
The Design Team look for inspiration all around the world, along with street style, vintage shopping, music, art, the catwalk and all things creative, to design the latest product for the range. It’s all about newness and finding and designing the most exciting product for our 20-something customer, whatever their style.
You’ll be…
Assisting the Leisure designer by researching, developing, and designing the menswear leisure ranges including casual and smart, plain and print. Identifying key shapes for the season, colour, fabric and building a range which offers choice for our global customer base.
Reacting to sales information and design commercially relevant fashion forward ranges.
Researching current and future trends by a collection of different sources to identify newness and interpret into first to market pieces.
Working with the technical team on initial fits. Identifying and helping problem solve for the department.
Building relations with suppliers and advising factories on direction, construction, key details, materials, and trims.
Adhering to the critical path to achieve deadlines, ensuring product is developed for the relevant and optimum selling period.
An ability to research and develop unique product working with short lead suppliers and reacting to new trends quickly.
Qualifications
We’d love to meet, someone with…
Previous experience in designing for an Aspirational Brand or similar High Street Retailer with 1-2 years experience.
Previous experience of working with Far East, European and UK suppliers.
Experience in working with a buyer in planning and delivering a balanced range and first to market pieces.
Strong commercial handwriting and understanding of the ASOS Brand and Customer.
Computer Skills: Photoshop, Adobe, CAD.
A Fashion forward perspective
Strong time management.
The confidence to identify problems and makes improvement suggestions, seeking practical ways to overcome barriers and remaining calm under pressure.
The ability to communicate to the team & senior management the performance and strategy of the department.
Willingness to Travel in the UK for Supplier meetings and Inspirational purposes. International development travel.
Additional Information
BeneFITS’
Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
Employee sample sales
25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day for a special moment
Private medical care scheme
Fixed Annual Payment in addition to your salary each year, it's just an extra thank you from us
Opportunity for personalised learning and in-the-moment experiences that enable you to thrive and excel in your role
