Global Head of Footwear Design

5 months ago

London, United Kingdom Dr Martens Full time

Dr. Martens is a globally recognisable and culturally influential British brand, with over 60 years of rich heritage. As brand custodians, we are lucky to work for a dynamic, thriving, and ethical business, with people from diverse backgrounds, who bring their true selves to work, and where anyone can grow their career.

We are guided by three core values that are at the heart of everything we do**:be yourself**, **act courageously**, and **show you care**. They make us who we are and inspire us to push boundaries, embrace our individuality, and stand up for what's right.

**THE GIG**

This is a great opportunity for an experienced design specialist and brand custodian, to be the focal point of Dr. Martens design process and organisation. This role is key to the Dr. Martens brand, one that links all areas of the design and development process with our category specialists. Setting of the seasonal direction for the brand in alignment with the Creative Director is a core element of this role, with a focus on driving main range product and design evolution, that translates into our main range.

This role sits as part of the Global Product Leadership team, reporting to the Chief Product Officer and, will be responsible for leading the main line design organisation for both our footwear and our accessories lines. Setting and leading a strong strategy with people at the centre, this role will be responsible fostering and nurturing the design team to the next level and driving brand storytelling as well as commercial output of the main range.

As our Global Head of Product Designer you will be responsible for:

- Ownership of the main range Design process through the GTM strategy
- Setting the inline Design Strategy and Design ethos
- Working closely with the CPO and Creative Director to ensure on brand storytelling to inform our design process.
- Delivering against seasonal direction with powerful DM storytelling
- Building out the strategic direction of in-line design in line with the 5YP
- Building out the design ethos for each category, ensuring teams build into it on a seasonal basis
- Ownership of the cross-category Dr Martens design aesthetic, with a responsibility to build out a road map across all tiers of main range.
- Leadership of the seasonal design priorities to ensure the seasonal lines are executed against the top line plan
- Participating as a key leader on the Global Product Leadership team
- Facilitator of cross footwear and accessories integration across the seasonal collection
- Work closely with the Category Director and Senior Category leads to translate briefs into commercial design outputs.
- Gate Keeper of all critical brand design timelines in alignment with GTM team and Head of Development, as well key lead on PLM implementation
- Leading, developing and empowering a cross functional team with a key emphasis on learning, growth and development
- Work closely with the development function to build out a process to ensure seasonal collections deliver on time and are executed to the highest standard for the brand.

**THE STUFF THAT SETS YOU APART**

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Put simply, for this role the key things we’re looking for are:

- An experienced brand design leader
- A leader that can set seasonal design priorities that hits all the right objectives and is in line with our brand custodian mindset.
- Inspiring and empowers, nurtures, and grows their team
- Ability to critically evaluate organisational ways of working and deliver positive change
- Builds trusting relationships across all levels of the business
- A creative thinker, one who has an ability to build impactful stories to our Global consumers around the world, as well as brings outside in thinking and creativity
- Adopts an organisation - team - self mindset
- Experience of working in agile, fluid environments
- A good, clear communicator & influencer who is used to navigating fast moving matrix organisations and driving accountability for themselves and others
- High EQ; able to demonstrate outstanding interpersonal and team development skills
- Ability to deliver with pace and agility

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**WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?**
- Hybrid working
- Welcome to the family free pair of Docs
- 65% off all Docs
- Award-winning ‘Buy As You Earn’ Dr. Martens share plan
- Private healthcare
- A dedicated culture team
- 2 paid volunteer days per year
- Amazing Camden based offices with roof terrace overlooking the canal

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We strive to develop a business where our people can thrive and feel empowered to express themselves. Because we believe everyone should feel supported and included whatever their role in the Dr. Martens community.

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