Junior Designer - Womenswear

About us. We’re the team behind digital retailer Very. Our purpose, helping families get more out of life, powers everything we do. And we want our people to get more out of life too! If you’re high-performing, ambitious and make the most of every opportunity, we want to hear from you. In return, you’ll enjoy heaps of flexibility, great perks and benefits, and the freedom to be yourself, keep learning and take your career wherever you want it to go. If you love making a difference, you’ll love making it sparkle for millions of Very customers.

About the role. We are looking for a passionate, enthusiastic and hardworking Junior to join our small but dynamic Womenswear team. This role has a focus on looking at and building both speed to market testing and main womenswear trends for our own brand ‘The Very Collection’, and being an active member of the womenswear team, helping across different categories when needed. This role requires previous experience working within a womenswear team, preferably working on trends, and having a detailed understanding of the process of designing a womenswear department.

• Researching trend and product direction for both speed to market and long lead also trend across multiple categories.
• Ability to produce trend boards, colour, catwalk reports and shop reports for multiple womenswear categories.
• Able to react quickly to trends and feed into relevant teams.
• Knowledge of fabric, and ability to translate this into trends.
• Knowledge of colour, graphics and print, and ability to incorporate this into trends clearly.
• If needed, the ability to take responsibility for a womenswear product category, which includes independent research, product development and range building with a buying team.
• Strong skills in CAD (illustrator, photoshop, Indesign).
• Ability to create clear and detailed design packs to be sent to the supply chain.
• Ability to translate initial ideas and concepts into commercial designs.
• Working closely with buying teams to create a cohesive and saleable collection.
• Working closely with the technical team, advising factories on fabric, fit, construction and details.
• Sourcing from the supply base and building strong relationship with suppliers.
• Reacting to sales information and designing commercially relevant, fashion-forward trends and ranges with our customer in mind.
• Have strong presentation skills and be confident to present designs in meetings.

Some of our benefits:

• Flexible, hybrid working model.
• Inclusive culture and environment, check out our Glassdoor reviews.
• £250 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs.
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays.
• LinkedIn learning access.
• Bonus potential (performance and business-related).
• Up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk.
• Matched pension up to 6%.
• More benefits can be found on our career site.

Diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities. We’re building a culture of everyday inclusion, and welcome applications from anyone who believes they can do the job. We don’t discriminate based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply, interview, or perform a role, let us know via talentacquisition@theverygroup.com. We’ll be happy to support you. We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer and have nine brilliant colleague networks – including DAWN (Disability Awareness at Very) and Think (Neurodiversity at Very) – that are helping us make Very an even more inclusive place to work.