Senior Designer Girls Kidswear - ARKET

Company Description


Do you want to be a part of building the most loved lifestyle brand?


Then you might be the Senior Designer 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


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 the ARKET’s success and believe that a fun working place generates great results.
Job Description


Be the creative visionary for the concepts products and assortment. Contribute to growth and profitability by creating products and assortment based on the visual goal for your target customer in all sales channels short and long term.
Some of your tasks and responsibilities includes, but are not limited to:
Create the product visual goal, in line with section goal and concept visual goal.
Design, develop and drive the assortment and products together with your team. ​
Lead, inspire and develop design assistants. ​
Constantly review products and assortment, monitor sales and suggest actions. ​
Participate and contribute to set visual goal together with Head of design. ​
Be responsible for the department’s customer focus, always be updated what is happening in the surrounding world for your target customer
Plan and create a well-coordinated product assortment with focus on loved products.
Responsible for identifying colors, prints, types, silhouettes, materials and details that follows the season's fashion trends.
Secure that your products always have the best fit and design with the right timing



Qualifications


A collaborative, proactive and self-driven person who is eager to learn and develop both yourself and the people you work with, you can work both independent but also enjoy being part of a team and achieving things together. To thrive in this role you need to be communicative, structured and organized as well as being a problem solver that is self-motivated and sees possibilities.
We believe you have a proven working experience as Sr designer within fashion and you have relevant educational background, preferably in the fields of Adult or Kids fashion and design.
To be considered for this role you have:
Excellent knowledge in design and product development
Fashion intelligence; Driven by, and strong at trend analysis to be able to predict what your customers will demand in a year from now.
Business sense and Salesmanship
Strong aesthetic sense of colours and prints.
Strategic mindset and experience to make commercial strategic decisions for the collection.
Experience working cross-functional between several different departments
Fluent in English, both verbal and written
Strong communication skills and a positive can-do attitude
A proven and genuine interest in Kids fashion.
You bring a new/unique perspective to our team



Additional Information


Apply


If you feel your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application as soon as possible but latest 20th of November. Interviews will be held on a continuous basis. It is a permanent position starting in February 2022 and located at ARKET HQ, Maria Skolgata 83 Stockholm.
We know that diversity is what makes us strong. Our teams should consist of a 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!