Junior Designer RTW Light Wovens Womenswear – ARKET – 10/12 month contract

Company Description


ARKET is a modern day market that offers essential products for men, women, children and the home, ARKET stores also include a café based on the New Nordic Food Manifesto. ARKET’s mission is to inspire people to make good choices, and we offer well-made, durable products, designed to be used and loved for a long time.
We offer
A work environment where culture and values play a big part in everything we do. We have a flexible attitude and value an entrepreneurial spirit. We want every employee to take ownership of ARKET’s success and believe that a fun working place generates great business results.
Are you the right person to be a part of establishing the most loved retail lifestyle destination with quality, sustainability and modernity at its core? Are you a Junior Designer just starting your design career, who would like to learn and develop your design skills further in our creative customer focused environment? If you have this in combination with a commercial eye, great positive energy and communication skills, you might be the junior we look for!


Job Description


As Junior Designer in our RTW Women’s department, you will be part of the collection team with the main focus to create the best offer for our target customer. Based on the visual goal, you will contribute to the collection range by supporting the Senior Designer in planning and developing the products and assortment. The focus for this role is light wovens/soft separates to include dresses, skirts, tops, blouses/shirts. You will contribute with fresh ideas through your excellent ability to foresee and analyze upcoming trends, and assist to translate them to our business concept. You will take part in fitting sessions, take responsibility of design related sample handling. Creating flat sketches of the highest standard is a big part of the job, to ensure our designs are communicated in an optimal way.


Qualifications


We are looking for you who
• Minimum BA qualification in fashion design and 1-2yrs work experience or equivalent
• Have a strong sense of fashion forward trends and a good surrounding world analysis with a truly global perspective
• Love working with commercial fashion, are business minded, goal oriented and have an entrepreneurial mindset
• Are highly creative and take action to be an inspiration to your team members
• Have strong knowledge of materials, cuts and eye for detail
• Have excellent knowledge of Adobe Suite programs and illustration and hand drawing skills
• CLO 3D work experience
• You have strong time management and organizational skills
• Are flexible, open minded and positive
• Can work at a high pace, unafraid of hard work in periods, high and low with no prestige
• Always see possibilities, improvements and can inject and push new ideas to the team
• Are a great communicator, unafraid to take a step forward and speak up
• Are a driven team player and can also work independently with a strong self drive
• Fluent in English (spoken and written) Swedish not necessary


Additional Information


Apply today!
If you your experience, skills and ambitions fit this role, please send your application to include CV and portfolio (max 10mb/uploading) in English by 10th of April. Your portfolio should include: Full design process, including mood boards, sketches and final products/collections with a forward fashion trend & lifestyle handwriting, commercial as well as aspirational projects. Please ensure to show some work clearly relatable to the ARKET customer. Please do not send cover letters since they often contain information that creates unintentional biases at screening.
This is a full time temporary 10-12 months contract to start 1st August 2022
We know that diversity is what makes us strong. Our teams should consist of great mix of people that share and combine their knowledge, experiences and ideas. It leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, what we perceive possible and how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world.
We look forward to hearing from you!