Senior Designer Boys collection & Kids Basics - ARKET

Company 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 Senior Kidswear Designer who would you like develop your designskills further in our creative customer focused environment? In combination with great energy and communication skills, then you might be the one we are looking for!
About us
A modern-day market with a Nordic soul, offering a mix of fashion, homeware and a café while having quality, sustainability and transparency at the core of our business. ARKET was founded with the mission to simplify good choices and influence positive change in our industry. By presenting a broad collection of well-considered fashion, food, scents, beauty and home items under one roof, we want to inspire people to live a more sustainable lifestyle.
At ARKET, we believe that collaborating in diverse teams and including various perspectives into our everyday work are key to meaningful growth. As an employer, we are committed to cultivating a workplace culture that celebrates our unique talents and differences as individuals. This allows us to harness our collective knowledge to reflect the diversity of our clients in all the products and experiences we create. 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.
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
As Senior Boys Designer in our Kids’ department, you will be part of the collection team with the main focus to create the best offer for our target customer. You will be the creative visionary for the boys concept’s products and assortment. You contribute to growth and profitability by creating and developing products based on the visual goal for your target customer aimed at all sales channels.
The scope is across Boys full collection & Kids basics such as t-shirts, sweatshirts, sweat pants, leggings etc. You will drive and create the assortment together with the team and contribute with new fresh ideas and make it happen! You have excellent ability to foresee and analyse upcoming Kids trends and translate them to our business concept.
Qualifications
We are looking for you who
Is preferably a Senior Designer with a BA in fashion design and minimum 4-5 yrs work experience
Have a strong sense of fashion forward trends and a good global market analysis understanding
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
Solid experience from product creation and development across woven, jersey and denim materials
Used to work across full range collections
Have technical garment construction/pattern cutting skills
Have excellent knowledge of Adobe Suite programs, as well as strong illustration and hand drawing skills
Attention to detail is key
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
Does this sound like you?
If you your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application to include CV and portfolio (pdf max 10mb) in English by 28th June. Your portfolio should include: Full design process and should have an aspirational fashion & lifestyle handwriting. Please also include some aspirational work suited to ARKET. This is a fulltime position at our head office, Stockholm, Sweden.
This is a full-time role to start in October 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 are looking forward to hearing from you!