Assistant Designer - Bags & Accessories - Licensed Brands in Leicester

Working Pattern: Typically 5 days in the office with flexible core hours between 8am-6pm.

Responsibilities:

• Design and support product ranges for Bags and Accessories for our Licensed brands.
• Respond quickly to briefs, producing fast-turnaround designs as needed.
• Demonstrate a strong sense of creativity and design direction.
• Research and recognise key trends, translating this into elevated, customer-relevant products.
• Work within price point guidelines while maintaining quality and style.
• Collaborate with designers, buyers, merchandisers, technologists, sourcing teams, and suppliers to deliver on time and to spec.
• Support with project-based collections as well as main range development.

Qualifications:

• Must have experience of designing bags and accessories.
• Must have strong experience of creating, using tech packs and briefing to manufacturers.
• Experience & knowledge in Photoshop and Illustrator is essential for this role.
• Having strong teamwork and people skills is a must for this role.
• Experience working with factories and different brands/retailers would be an advantage.
• Ideally you will have Retailer or Supplier industry experience.
• All applications must be provided with an updated digital portfolio. Any applications without a portfolio will not be considered.

Sponsorship: Candidates wishing to apply who would require sponsorship for this role will be required to meet the Home Office sponsorship requirements.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Profit-related bonus - based on company performance
• Private health insurance - surgery choices
• Sharesave scheme - make savings from your net pay to buy NEXT shares at a discount
• Pension - fixed contribution rates from both an employer and employee perspective, but you're also able to make additional voluntary contributions (AVCs) if you wish to save more.
• 25% staff discount on most NEXT products - plus discount on other products
• Wagestream - helping you make the most out of your money
• Salary finance - offers access to affordable loans repaid through salary, simple savings and free financial education.
• Life assurance
• Direct to work - NEXT orders delivered free to the office for collection
• VIP sale - early access to the NEXT sale
• Access to NEXT staff shops
• Octopus energy - like cycle-to-work, but for electric vehicles
• Free parking (excluding London locations)
• Travel2NEXT - bus services dependent on location
• On site dining facilities (excluding London locations)
• National and local discounts on goods and services - this includes things like discounted cinema tickets
• Wellhub - includes access to discounted gym membership
• Simply health - a healthcare subscription service
• Aviva Digicare Workplace+ healthcare service - 7 Free services including Digital GP appointments and an annual health check.
• Onsite GP - Leicester Head Office
• Onsite Physio - Leicester Head Office
• A range of dedicated 3rd party wellbeing partners
• Free eye testing - voucher to use at specific locations

Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change.

We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email headoffice_careers@next.co.uk (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.