Menswear Tailoring Designer

6 days ago

London, United Kingdom Head Office Full time

**What’s the role about?**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Tailoring Designer to join our menswear design team, reporting to the Design Category Lead. Responsible for designing and developing seasonal ranges, delivering original, relevant, customer-centric and distinct best in class own brand products and delivering planned growth.

**What you’ll be doing**

Menswear tailoring designer with a focus on suits, tailored separates, outerwear, shirts and accessories. You will be working collaboratively with the other designers in the studio and with the buying, merchandising and technology teams to ensure you differentiate your ranges while keeping within the DNA of John Lewis. You will take past sales into account and look for innovative ways to drive new trends throughout the range.

You will research thoroughly in order to drive the direction of men’s tailoring for John Lewis by setting out seasonal trend boards and colour palettes, have excellent illustrator and cad skills, whilst being proficient in photoshop and google docs and slides.

The Partnership supports agile and flexible working practices, such as when, where and how we work. We have several different ways to work flexibly, including part-time, flexible or compressed hours, and job sharing. Head office areas also support a blended working approach.

**Why do our product designers love working for us?**

It is a creative role with the opportunity to really drive and influence newness in the growing Tailoring category. We have an energetic team that works very collaboratively to achieve our ambitious goals.

**What you’ll have**:

- Organisational strategy, Task Prioritization, Stakeholder Management, Empathy, Active Listening, Interpersonal Sensitivity, Coaching.
- Building trusting relationships with designers, buyers, merchandisers and technologists.
- Ability to create detailed factory brief sheets using illustrator Cads and annotations through PDFs and/or google sheets.
- Great understanding of the Adobe Creative Suite, including illustrator and photoshop.
- Have an excellent understanding of tailoring fabric to be able to develop unique and commercial cloth with european and far east fabric mills.
- An expert in fittings and confident in following through styles, from sketch to production.
- Delivering designs on time within the seasonal critical path.

**What else can you bring**
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
- Commercially minded, quick to respond to business needs
- Impeccable presentation and communication skills
- Ability to collaborate with multiple teams
- Creative thinking matched with time management
- Able to express opinions in a friendly, polite and non-confrontational way in order to build strong team relationships/trust, able to handle criticisM/Feedback
- An eye for detail
- Flexible to Travel
- Relevant Design Degree

The Partnership supports agile and flexible working practices, such as when, where and how we work. We have several different ways to work flexibly, including part-time, flexible or compressed hours, and job sharing. Head office areas also support a blended working approach. You'll have the opportunity to discuss this further with the hiring manager during your interview and, where it is operationally practicable, they'll do all they can to accommodate your needs.

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