Womenswear Garment Technologist /12 Month Fixed Term Contract/London

We are working with a great brand who are looking for a multi-product womenswear designer on a 12 month Fixed Term Contract.

Duties include:

• Working closely with Buying, Merchandising, Design, Digital, Fabric and the supply base, you’ll need to draw on your solid understanding of the various fitting and manufacturing processes and costings.
• Supporting the Head of category to achieve KPIs, including right first-time sealing hit rate.
• Working with the Design/ Buying team to get a ‘right first time’ sample and improve sealing hit rate.
• Taking ownership of the fit and sealing process.
• Risk assessing product quality standards and production issues including safety, wearer trials, performance, minimum make standards and potential production issues.
• Using lessons learnt, benchmarking through comparative shopping, working collaboratively with digital teams, Fabric and suppliers to make sure Quality Standards are maintained.
• Analysing quality issues and customer returns within your department, putting corrective action plans and workable timeframes in place.
• Ensuring that the correct block and fabric reference is selected during Design Brief stage prior to being sent to supplier.
• Delivering Supplier Self Gold Seal status to ensure suppliers meet criteria for Self-Approval.
• Responding to Customer complaints and queries.
• Keeping up to date with industry innovations, networking internally and externally to identify opportunities.