Junior Designer RTW Woven Womenswear - ARKET

Company Description


About us
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.




Job Description


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 an experienced Woven Junior Designer who would like develop your design skills further in our creative customer focused environment? If you have this is combination with a commercial eye, great energy and communication skills, you might be the one we look for!
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. Our focus is Heavy Woven; Outerwear, Jackets, Denim and Trousers. 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
Are a Junior Designer with a BA in fashion design minimum 1-2 yrs work experience
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
Preferably have experience working with Heavy Woven products and materials
Have strong technical garment construction/pattern cutting skills and eye for detail
Have excellent knowledge of Adobe Suite programs and illustration and hand drawing skills
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





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) in English by 24th February. Your portfolio should include: Full design process, including mood boards, sketches and final products/collections with a forward fashion trend & lifestyle handwriting. Please also include some aspirational work suited to the ARKET customer.
For internal employees: Always remember to initiate a dialogue with your current manager when starting the application process.
The H&M Group is committed to creating a Diverse & Inclusive environment and we are actively looking for qualified candidates irrespective of race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability or age.


We look forward to hearing from you!