Assistant Designer Womenswear Per Una

Per Una embodies a youthful spirit and effortless desirability, expressed through a modern boho aesthetic and a confident, rebellious femininity that feels fresh, instinctive and emotionally resonant. The brand blends artisanal craft with contemporary design, creating pieces that feel expressive, free-spirited and unmistakably individual. Fluid silhouettes, textured details and energising colour come together to form a world that is romantic yet modern, soft yet strong, always designed with ease and authenticity at its core.

As an Assistant Designer for Per Una, you'll play a key role in bringing this distinctive vision to life across multiple product categories. Working closely with the Design team, you'll help create commercially successful ranges that are trend-led, customer-focused and true to the Per Una brand identity. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, agile and creative designer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys pushing ideas forward through innovation and collaboration.

Please submit a sample of your portfolio as an attachment, rather than a link, as we are unable to access external portfolio links.

Due to high interest, this role may close earlier than advertised. We recommend applying as soon as possible.

What you'll do

Your key accountabilities will include

• Under direction from the Designer, conduct inspirational and competitor comp shopping, making recommendations for your ranges to ensure ranges are continually evolving and market-leading.
• Support the Design team with the coordination of day-to-day activities and take a proactive approach to managing tasks and priorities.
• Collaborate with Designers and wider teams to meet critical path deadlines and deliver the right designs, at the right time.
• Create digital trend presentations and CADs using Adobe Creative Suite, Miro and AI tools to accurately represent product for range reviews, whilst maintaining high standards of PLM tech packs.
• Support the briefing of trends and delivery of Design Briefs to indirect suppliers and global sourcing offices when required.

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include

• Proven design experience within a retail or fashion environment, ideally with knowledge of denim and casualwear wash development.
• Strong design and CAD skills with excellent attention to detail and the ability to translate trends into commercially successful product.
• Experience creating design briefs, specifying direct design sourced product and developing high-quality tech packs in partnership with Design, Buying and Technology teams.
• Excellent communication, influencing and relationship-building skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams and supplier partners.
• A dynamic, agile and innovative mindset, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, adapt quickly to change and thrive in a fast-paced environment whilst delivering to critical path deadlines.

What's in it for you?

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger – helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We're inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.

Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:

• 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you've completed your probation.
• Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more.
• Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours.
• Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future.
• Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one.
• Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal.
• Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave.
• 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services.
• One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you.

Everyone's welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We are disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We are transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.

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