Junior Print Designer

We’re the feel-good fashion brand making style accessible and fun for over 55 years, on our website, mobile app and over 300 stores in the UK.

By living our values - we play to win, customer obsessed, we are one and it starts with me - we deliver That New Look Feeling for our customers and each other.

Job Purpose: (4 days in the office)

We are looking for a junior print designer to join the print and graphics team here at New Look. We are looking for someone who is highly creative, loves colour, print & pattern and enjoys designing prints in a fast paced and fun environment. To be responsible for delivering on trend, commercial prints for womenswear, LNS and 915, working alongside the print and graphics team and reporting into the Print & Colour Manager.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

Demonstrate an ability to design trend relevant prints for womenswear, LNS and 915 as needed.

Inspire by bringing newness with key ideas relevant to the brand. A love of social media trends, influencers and catwalks is a must.

Demonstrate a confident approach to working with your buying and merch team.

Work under pressure and focus on delivering the best product needed for department.

Have a knowledge of fast paced/ trend lead work place. You will be part of ensuring key print and graphic trends are landed with conviction.

Work closely with the garment design team, alongside the critical path to deliver key print for the season.

Must continue to push and develop yourself within the role and help to develop the less experienced members of the team.

Ability to use adobe suite to a really good level- designing allover and placement prints.

An understanding of the New Look Customer. Actively contributing in trend and competitor analysis, making recommendations for changes or developments

Ongoing familiarity of the competition’s product range

Technical Knowledge & Experience

Previous experience as a Junior Designer within a major retailer / department within New Look / Established Supplier- ideally 3 years experience or more.

Textiles/Fashion Qualification / Other qualification-ideally at Degree Level

PC / Mac literate - Photoshop, Illustrator, Excel, Word, Adobe Suite

Factory ready tech pack creations.

Trend Aware

Understanding of how to translate fashion trends into commercial product/print opportunities

Knowledge of Buying calendar (critical path).

Good interpersonal / communication skills

Organisational skills

Broad understanding of current competitive marketplace (comparative shopping)

Customer knowledge

Ability to initiate, build and maintain great relationships with Design and Buying teams.

Good presentation skills

Can work under pressure whilst maintaining a positive attitude

Communicate effectively with all internal and external teams

Why New Look?

We care about you and the planet and believe fashion should be a force for positive change. We celebrate inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We’re proud of our inclusive culture and our talented team members who embrace our shared purpose, behaviours and values.

We prioritise development, offering training to support your progression, so you can be your absolute best and achieve your goals.

We pride ourselves on being a flexible employer, our colleagues work a range of patterns. If you have a specific pattern in mind, we're keen to discuss this with you in line with the output needed for the role.

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