Design Assistant - Papershop

Bring your creativity to life as an Assistant Designer in our Papershop team. Working across the Paperchase and Tesco brands, you'll help create trend-led, customer-focused products, turning the latest design inspiration into innovative prints and product concepts. Collaborating with cross-functional teams and suppliers, you'll support the design journey from idea to launch, making a real impact in a fast-paced and creative environment. You will be responsible for

• Providing design, product development and sampling support to keep the team running smoothly.
• Proactive communications with the buying and design teams, creating awareness of emerging trends, product categories and colours.
• Conducting customer and competitor research to inform your designs, create reports to share within design team meetings.
• Contributing to the department's design direction, being proactive in identifying core lines, key statements and colours to drive sales.
• Understanding best and worst lines to influence seasonal strategy and product opportunities.
• Supporting in designing balanced ranges understanding range principles.
• Supporting the delivery of 'must haves' and seasonal/trend products for our customer.
• Resolving day to day operational issues/queries, escalating where appropriate.
• Assisting your manager by designing the correct number of options to meet the needs of the department.
• Compiling brief packs to achieve 'right first time' quality buying sample.
• Playing your role in delivering the design component of the General Merchandise critical path. Experience in a creative design role, with a portfolio that demonstrates your skills and creative thinking.
• A BA degree in Design (product, fashion, furniture, textiles, surface pattern, decorative arts) or equivalent experience gained through another route.
• Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop; MS Office, InDesign and Procreate experience are a bonus.
• Previous experience & confidence with hand illustration. We welcome a range of illustration styles and approaches You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we're all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues., Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.

It's part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we're proud to have been accredited as one of Britain's Top Employers again this year. We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers. But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business. We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary.
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.