Recruiter: Woolworths (Pty) Ltd Closing Date: 2015-10-16 Positions: 1 Contract: Temporary / Contract Location: Cape Town Available: ASAP Category: Retail Offer: Market Related Reporting To: N/A Job Grade: Junior Mgt & Entry Level Specialists Division: Clothes, Buying and General Merchandise
To design commercial, beautiful product that meets and exceeds customer expectations and drives sales through adherence to the Woolworths Merchandise cycle.
Technical and Functional Competencies • Relevant Design diploma / degree • 2 to 5 years Commercial/Design girlswear experience • Deep retail skill and understanding, both local and global • Merchant and retail ability • Product knowledge • Creativity, taste level and flair in line with the brand • Ability to sketch • Trend analysis and editing skills • Ability to predict trends • Process thinking skills • Computer Literacy : Photoshop and Illustrator essential
• Passion for product / merchandise • Persuasiveness • Interpersonal skills – ability to work with diverse groups of people • Effective communication and presentation skills • Team Player – service orientated • Delivering high performance • Driving quality • Planning and organising
• Build partnerships with Buying, Planning, and Sourcing and Technology and work in an integrated way to optimise the design capability within the Groups • Develop concepts, storyboard, sketches and drawings of new designs to be considered within the groups in line with the design direction • Develop fabric design using the CAD tool • Conduct Fabric Workshops • Review fabric and material options for the season • Conduct final fabric review to sign-off fabric selection for the season with Group Head of Buying • Determine colours for the season aligned to overall trend colour palette presented • Review and approve seasonal colour lab dips in line with agreed seasonal colour direction • Develop seasonal colour boards • Conduct inspirational shopping • Identify trial opportunities in current season for future season • Develop design direction in prototype sample or CAD/photo sample form and present to Design Managers for sign-off (continuity items) • Approve and sign-off on design direction and proposed continuity items in a season • Develop product spec pack/tech pack • Brief ideas, sketches and initial sample requests and costing sheets to relevant suppliers (good, better, best pricing strategy) in line with sourcing strategy • Determine product specifications/techpack for continuity and selected items dependent upon supplier capability • Develop design brief • Present season, including styles, looks, themes and fabrics • Present Season, continuity and selected items, opportunities in line with strategy and design direction • Review and approve design brief samples and agree continuity items, volume input and input items for season. • Build relationships with Design Centres of Suppliers. • Build partnerships with Buying, Planning, and Sourcing and Technology and work in an integrated way to optimise the design capability within the Groups. • Manage on time delivery of the Merchandise cycle • Develop, motivate, inspire and lead the relevant group’s Design Assistant and provide ongoing feedback to enhance performance and deliver the seasonal product direction. “As a proud South African brand, Woolworths is committed to transformation. Meeting our employment equity goals will be taken into account in our recruitment decisions”
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