Lead Stylist

**Lead Stylist**
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**This role is predominantly based at our Bedford studio however you will be required to work on location or at our other studio in Milton Keynes from time to time.**

Bradwell Media is our In-House content creation studio. A unique, creative and fun environment based across 3 locations, Bradwell, Coventry & Bedford. A large team of Creative and Technical experts creating content for a wide array of General Merchandise, Jewellery and Fashion products. Bringing our products and brands to life and our helping our customers to make the right purchase decision based on their unique shopping mission.

We support all brands across the Sainsbury’s group (Sainsbury’s, Argos, Habitat and Tu), across all channels and platforms. Our Photography and Video content is a critical part of creating a truly exceptional shopping experience for our customers.

Working within our exciting fast paced Tu fashion studio the main responsibility of this role is to ensure that we are creating the best fashion content possible. This means it must be brand authentic, impactful, true to the product and showcase absolute attention to detail. Working across all tiers of our content from ecomm to campaign and PR, reviewing & developing our practices and processes to ensure we’re driving improvements will be an important part of your role.

As Stylist Lead your role will be a 60/40 split, weighted heaviest towards styling. The rest of your time will be spent leading the stylist team on the overall style direction for Tu, to include developing our style guides, identifying areas we can improve upon, mood boarding & concepting for upcoming shoots and working with key stakeholders. This is an amazing opportunity for an individual looking for the first step towards people management and making creative content decisions.

**As a Lead Stylist you will**:
**Least styling Content creation** - Styling and creating aspirational but relatable fashion content for the Tu brand. Support with mood boarding and driving creative solutions for any briefs that come through the studio. Working on all tiers of our ecommerce, campaign, and PR photography & video content. Bring great innovation ideas to fruition within the styling discipline. You will be leading and styling through various shooting methods.

**Leadership and teamwork** - Lead, coach, motivate and develop a team of fashion stylists (Setting goals, objectives, and co-writing development plans). Support the studio team to achieve the creative standards required and review our processes to improve efficiency and consistency. Develop a flexible team who are multiskilled and can therefore support varying demands based on deliveries. lead team in developing styling principles for multiple fashion brands (Ability to flex styling requirements)

**Manage samples, wardrobe, and prop assets** - Managing the ordering of styling sundries, auditing and ordering of styling garments, accessories, and props to compliment the season, and keeping mood, trend, and style boards up to date.

**Stakeholder management **- Work with our key stakeholders to develop positive change for our customers and brand. Always maintain an excellent level of professionalism. Share and present the studios achievements within forums to the wider business.

**Brand champion** - Ensure our content is consistent and follows our brand guidelines with high attention to detail. Support in the development our guidelines, benchmarking our competitors and ensuring our content is progressive and relevant to our customers. Always maintain up-to-date knowledge of our customer profiles and design handwriting.

**QC** -Responsible for the robust quality control of all studio content. Attending Regular QC sessions and ensuring that all content created by the Studio is in line with brand guidelines, customer profiles and current trends. Actively seeking and providing feedback to creative teams to improve and move studio creative content forward. Reviewing all styling content daily and provide regular feedback to the team

**Stakeholder management **- Work with our key stakeholders to develop positive change for our customers and brand. Always maintain an excellent level of professionalism. Share and present the studios achievements within forums to the wider business.

**Our Brand Communications & Creative team would love to see**:

- Over 4 years’ experience working in a fashion ecommerce photographic studio.
- A sharable portfolio of work to showcase your ability to style to a high standard.
- A demonstrable understanding of fashion styles and current trends.
- Proven ability to work to stringent deadlines whilst retaining an exceptional eye for detail.
- Strong creative skills; able to take a brief and come up with a creative solution, visualise this and then present it back to clients in a professional and coherent manner.
- Ability to take initiative, multi task and prioritise where needed.
- Strong team play