Graduate Design Assistant

Are you a recent Design/Textile graduate, looking to start your career in a leading High Street fashion retailer? This would be the ideal role for you!

Here at Edinburgh Woollen Mill we have a fantastic opportunity for a Design Assistant to join our expanding Design team

The Edinburgh Woollen Mill is a retail business comprising of over 400 units, including High Street, Tourist & Destination sites, predominantly Fashion and Home.

High Street

The Edinburgh Woollen Mill has mainstream high street stores selling ladies and menswear for the 45 plus customer. Outlets are located in a wide variety of market and provincial towns across the UK and Ireland

Tourist Shops and Visitor Centres

We have specialty tourist stores, where gift items and other products reflect the stores location. The outlets, which trade under an individual, often local, fascia, are in key tourist locations throughout the UK. Many stores are on busy tourist routes and benefit from coach visits where food service and exhibitions are all part of the attraction.

Destination Shopping

There are Destination Sites which contain all of the Company's concepts and other brands to increase their attractiveness as a retail destination. The sites trade under local, individual fascias such as Antartex Village, and Kernow Mill, Mackinnon Mills.

If you would like to be part of a forward-thinking business, and have a job with excellent career prospects, we would love to hear from you.

The role of the Design Assistant is to assist the design team to produce and deliver trend direction and commercially designed ranges.

Job responsibilities

Trend and Design Process
• Produces local high street shop reports for the design team to use.
• Contributes towards research of trends, colour, stories and tracking
• Assists the design team across all aspects of design role to gain experience.
• Develops skills in computer aided design to become a competent user of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop computer design packages.
• Assist designer by preparing CADing designs and spec packs for factories/suppliers.
• Learn to design multi-product
Commercial Awareness
• Ensures regular store visits are made to keep aware of competitors, inspirational and aspiration brands and report findings to assist the designers range build.
• Demonstrates understanding of customer profile and brand handwriting.
Administrative
• Responsible for keeping the department generally tidy and organised in stationary/trims/boards etc.
• Log and photograph bought samples
• Keep design drive organised
Effective Working relationships
• Effectively communicate in appropriate manner.
• Effectively builds relationships across peer group in order to drive performance through teamwork.