Print Designer-Lead and coordination responsible-H&M Kids Girls Collection

Company Description


The H&M Head Office is based in Stockholm, Sweden, where we design and develop our fashion collections for a wide variety of customers. H&M is a dynamic international workplace where high pace and rapid changes are a natural part of our day. Good communication skills, a flexible attitude and capacity to adapt to changes are essential. We have a sustainable mindset and always seek new ways to improve our sustainable working methods to achieve our goals.


Job Description


Are you an experienced Print Designer who love the Kids Girls customer and assortment! Do you have what it takes to lead and coordinate the print team for our Kids Girl Collection? Do you also love creating prints for a variety of different products? Then this might be the opportunity for you!
This is an exciting role where you together with the Collection designer will set the visual print direction for the Kids Girls collection. One part of the work in this role is coordinating and securing the print vision for the full collection, and next to this you will also design prints for the different drops during the season. You work with the Kids Girls’ full assortment includes fancy jersey, knit, denim, woven with responsibility to coordinate our own graphics with the license assortment for our customer. This is an informal leadership role which requires strong leading- and work method skills as well as understanding of fully collaborative work processes. And in this role will you be responsible for optimizing the print work, methods, timeline and over all planning in the team of 6 print designers together with the collection manager.


Qualifications


You have a great eye for current and upcoming Kids Girls print trends and wish to join our positive and energetic, creative, playful work environment. It’s important you share our true love and passion for the Kids Girls’ customer and products. A genuine interest and understanding of the H&M Kids Girls print handwriting and aesthetics is key as it is of highest importance for our commercial success. Teamwork, high speed and ability to prioritize is very important. You must be able to work independently and are used to fast decision making. We offer a great chance to develop for you who love working with different teams and a variety of printed products sold worldwide in an international environment on a daily basis.
We also look for:
Min 2-3yrs work experience as a senior textile print designer
Strong drawing and illustration skills
High level and fast skills in Adobe Suite programs
Have good knowledge of different print techniques/ textile designing
Solid work experience from repeat, placement prints, typography/graphic text prints including license
Direct experience from print supplier/production
A true passion for commercial kids print design, its current and future trends
A flexible team player who thrives working in diverse settings
Strong in working methods, coordinating ability – see the big picture
Organized and structured
Strong communication skills and an entrepreneurial mindset
CLO 3D & Shima work experience is highly meriting
English fluency (Swedish not necessary)



Additional Information


Does this sound like your next challenge?
Submit your application; CV and print portfolio pdf (max 10mb/upload), with relevant work; including vision/mood boards, full print design process and final print collections from a variety of projects. All documents should be in English. Please ensure to include some work clearly relatable to H&M Kids Girls target customer. Applications must include portfolio and meet the above criteria to be considered! Deadline is May 25th. The role is a 1-year temporary position, based in Stockholm, starting Sep-2022.
H&M 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!