Designer - Trend Category

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Detail information about job Designer - Trend Category. Terms and conditions vacancy

• Drive design creativity and innovation
• Inspiring and collaborative team environment
• Generous employee discounts and incentives

Forever New is one of Australia's fastest growing fashion clothing and accessories brands, proud to be founded in Melbourne during late 2006. Forever New has been on a journey of global expansion and today operates in over 300 stores in ten countries

The Role: The Designer is responsible for trend inspired design direction, development of mood boards and colour palettes in line with the Forever New hand writing by designing a balanced range in collaboration with the Buying team.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Ensure comprehensive knowledge of local and overseas market trends through various mediums including magazines and online research
• Analyse relevance of trends for brand and plan ranges accordingly in collaboration with Buyer
• Ensure ‘finger on pulse’ of emerging trends to ensure Forever New is first to market with new trends
• Create/visualise outstanding new designs in line with Forever New handwriting and product strategy
• Demonstrate broad awareness of competitors and external trends, identifying missed opportunities and trends working with the buyer to potentialise sales and profit
• Proactive participation in weekly Design meetings, contributing to group discussion by sharing new ideas and observations
• Participate in collaborative workshops with design team to develop on trend/commercial story boards and colour palettes in line with Forever New brand
• Present trend boards per product category, with direction from monthly story boards, to buyer to ensure that key trends, shapes, colour direction and fabrics are considered 
• Research fabric trends for the season and brief Production team to source fabric and trims
• At initial product development stage provide input to the product framework to ensure that the category’s design direction is balanced, reflecting new trends and optimising “updates” to existing best-sellers
• In collaboration with Buyer identify and deliver a commercial and balanced range to option frame work provided, offering the right mix per category. E.g. casual/formal, print/plain, colour balance and climate considerations
• Ensure the range delivers innovation, flexibility, quality, speed to market and is within pricing strategy
• Advise Buyer on styling, fabric, trim, print and finish
• Complete the design brief, post concept sign off, to the standard required, ensuring detailed accuracy, and that QA, and Production are adequately briefed to minimise re-work
• Work with Buying & QA to ensure consistency of fit and best quality of fabric and trim, make and finish

About You:

• A Bachelor of Fashion Design/Graphic is essential
• Proven track record of high performance in a fashion business
• Skilled in visualising design concepts (by hand and/or PC/MAC)
• Ability to translate fashion trends into commercial design concepts
• Creative talent and high attention to detail
• Strong technical knowledge and garment construction skills
• Fabric and raw material knowledge  
• Demonstrate understanding of all critical path elements and their impact on sales
• Knowledge of local and overseas fashion retail markets

About us:

Join a privately owned globally expanding retailer who are dedicated to team collaboration and innovation whilst promoting our vision and values – ‘Inspiring Confidence and Beauty’. Forever New is an entrepreneurial, fast-paced and dynamic environment. Our aim is to ensure that we have and culture which is engaging, collaborative and energetic. 

Forever New benefits include:

• Generous employee discounts and benefits including the cafes in our business park
• Work for an international expanding global retailer
• Modern offices located in Richmond close to public transport
• Enjoy our exciting social committee events, regular sample sales and team events