Knit Designer Assistant

Are you a recent Design/Textile graduate, looking to start your career in a leading High Street company?

This is the ideal role for you!

Here at Edinburgh Woollen Mill we have a fantastic opportunity for a Knit/ JerseyDesign 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.

About the Role – Design Assistant

The role of the Design Assistant is to assist the design team to develop appropriate knit/ jersey designs aligned to a customer and product development strategy as part of a design team.

Responsibilities:

To create knit designs interpreting appropriate trends and sales strategic information to meet range plan requirements and to design brief and critical path deadlines.
To assist in putting together trend boards/ colour pallets as part of the design team
Assists the design team across all aspects of design
To assistant in the development of product for sampling
To assist in the co-ordination of clothing development an in line with critical path deadlines
Create knitwear designs and update where necessary
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
What You’ll Bring

Strong communication skills and confidence dealing with multiple teams
Analytical mindset and comfortable working with numbers
Adaptability and enthusiasm for a varied, fast-paced role
Excellent organisational and time management skills
Why Join Us?

If you want to be part of a forward-thinking, ambitious business with outstanding career prospects, we would love to hear from you.

About us:

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

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.

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.

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 fascia’s such as Antartex Village, and Kernow Mill, Mackinnon Mills.

Please apply now if interested!

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