Studio Assistant

The Fold is an award-winning womenswear brand with a mission to empower women to realise their ambitions. The brand creates beautiful, high quality collections for women to feel their confident best. The Fold has a wide reaching international audience and has dressed some of the world’s most influential female leaders and innovators.

Join The Fold Team

We are an ambitious, supportive, passionate team who love what we do. We are Founder-led, and we lead by example -never compromising on our quality.

We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion across our business and within our teams. Creating equal opportunities for employees and applicants.

**Studio Assistant (3 month contract)**

**About the role**:

- Work closely with the Design, Technical and Buying Department. Supporting all departments will require a team player with lots of initiative and who likes working in a fast paced environment. This role will provide a great insight into the workings of a design led fashion house, the roles of the different functions and the processes that take place to deliver a collection.

**Contract type**:Fixed term contract 3 months

**Your responsibilities**:
**Supporting the design team**
- Support the design assistant by updating the collection line ups on a weekly basis
- Assist Design Assistant in completing tech packs and updating BOMs
- Create parcels for London seamstress that include the pattern, fabric and reference sample
- Assist the team with fabric sampling orders, fabric archiving and stock management
- Sending Lab dips to mills and factories
- Assist with the filing of lab dips and bulk fabrics
- Help set up and prepare for monthly collection buy weeks and organise samples after Mop up

**Supporting the technical team**
- Prepare the weekly fit list ensuring all samples are steamed and reference samples are available
- Support team with tech packs
- Support team with managing QC samples, measure, check quality and send approval to the suppliers
- Manage the QC returns to the warehouse on a monthly basis

**Supporting the buying and production team**
- Manage outbound and inbound post ensuring customs paperwork is correct and all samples are logged according to SOPs
- Organizing and maintaining the archive rails ensuring borrowed samples are returned
- Support the buying and design assistants in preparing the photoshoot rails ensuring all samples are available and presentable
- Liaising across the business for sample requests, keeping track of any borrowed samples
- Carry out a monthly Comp shop, highlighting any key trends across competitors
- Upload all attributes onto the system (Netsuite), maintaining accuracy
- Swatch management for liability
- Netsuite admin (good receipt fabrics, fabric transfers)

**Your skillset**:

- A clear understanding of the design aesthetic of The Fold
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Team player who collaborates with ease
- Strong organiser who prioritizes with ease and understand the importance of excellent time management
- Demonstrates a ‘can do’ attitude to work
- The ability to analyse problems and offer solutions
- Attention to detail is key as this is a fast-paced role, so a sharp eye is essential
- Strong MS Office skills
- Skilled in photoshop
- Experience using Adobe Illustrator

**Benefits and perks of working with The Fold**:

- 25 days holidays (including bank holidays)
- Buy additional holidays
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity pay
- Yearly gift voucher of £1,250
- A friends and family discount policy with 50% off full retail price
- Bike to work scheme, save on the cost of bikes and equipment
- Eye Care.
- Summer Friday hours
- Fully stocked snack cupboards, fruits and coffee & tea
- Regular Social Events - including summer and Christmas partiesVolunteering

**Our Culture**:
We are an ambitious, supportive, passionate team who love what we do. We are Founder-led, and we lead by example - never compromising on our quality. We strive to uphold a values based working culture with five key principle across the business:

- **Be Humbitious**: Be ambitious for yourself and The Fold in a humble way - don’t be a diva.
- **Wrap it up with a bow on it**: Be a completer finisher, be able to trust others to take on a job completely and fully, and earn that same trust yourself.
- **Be Empowered**: Take on responsibility, share your views confidently but kindly, feel ownership, take pride in results,
- **Fold Gold Standard**: Quality and professionalism, don’t just ‘let it go’, pride ourselves on attention to detail and excellence in everything we do, deliver results.
- **Embrace, pace, progress and adventure**: Know that to fully embrace our ambition and our challenges, this will mean stepping out of your comfort zone - get comfortable being uncomfortable.

**Diversity and Inclusion**: