Senior Assistant Designer - WW Footwear

As an Assistant Designer, you will be working closely with the Senior Designers on ASOS DESIGN FOOTWEAR, supporting to design all areas of shoes, creating trend lead ranges for our twenty something customer. You have an opportunity to thrive with a high energy team, with plenty of opportunity to grow a sought after skill set. The role is in a very exciting department, and we are looking for someone who loves fashion and has an endless enthusiasm for delivering new ideas and researching the latest trends!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Researching, developing and designing ranges for ASOS DESIGN Footwear, working across all categories of footwear, for both casual and dressy product areas.
• Identifying key trends, shapes and first to market styles with commerciality in mind, ensuring the most fashion forward range and choice for our global customer base.
• Creating mood and colour boards sharing creative ideas to shape and develop the footwear range, predicting trends for the season.
• Working alongside the buying teams to react to sales information and present design ideas to develop product and drive the range.
• Building relations with suppliers and advising factories on direction, construction, key details, materials and trims.
• Anticipating the needs of our twenty something customer, using sales data, customer profile analytics and trend research to deliver a commercial product range.
• Adhering to the critical path to achieve deadlines, ensuring product is developed for the relevant and optimum selling period.
• Working with the technical team on initial fits, identifying and helping solve problems for the department.
• Researching and developing unique products, working on both long lead time and quick reaction short lead ranges.
• Supporting our culture by driving Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies.

We're ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting-edge technology, but more importantly, we're interested in how we can bring the best out of you. We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions. Through our Fashion with Integrity strategy, we are driving diversity, equity and inclusion across every aspect of ASOS and ensuring every ASOSer can be their authentic self at work.

Who We'd Like to Meet:

• Previous Footwear design experience for an aspirational Brand or High Street Retailer.
• Experience working with Far East, European and UK suppliers.
• A strong commercial handwriting and understanding of the ASOS Brand and Customer.
• Passionate about fashion and immersed in trends; a fashion-forward eye is key.
• Proficiency in Photoshop, Adobe, CAD, PLM & hand sketch skills.
• Experience executing tech packs and sketches for product development for footwear.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to use initiative and work in a high-pressured environment.
• The ability to build great relationships with colleagues across the business and suppliers alike.
• Someone who is forthcoming and confident in presenting new and exciting ideas to line managers, the wider team, and senior leadership.
• Someone who can identify product opportunities and help drive the brand forward.
• Comfortable and experienced in traveling in the UK and internationally for supplier/product development meetings and inspirational purposes.

What's in it for you?

• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
• ASOS Develops (personal development opportunities across the business)
• Employee sample sales
• Access to a huge range of LinkedIn learning materials
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra day for your birthday
• Discretionary performance-related bonus scheme
• Private medical care scheme
• Flexible benefits allowance - which you can choose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits.