Assistant Fashion Technologist

Role Overview & Responsibilities

This role is to oversee the development of Joe Browns goods to ensure fair and consistent standards are applied in line with business priorities.

Technical Requirements

• Working on multiple products across ladieswear, menswear, footwear, accessories, and homewares
• Assisting in the resolution of fit and construction issues.
• Measuring sealing samples comprising of first fits, second fits, preproduction samples (as required) in line with critical path deadlines.
• Attending fit sessions to aid in adding comments to the workbooks for each style.
• Following the critical path, chasing, and logging sample submissions and packaging details from suppliers.
• Assisting in the approval of packaging and labelling details.
• Maintaining an organised environment ensuring all samples are stored in their correct areas for ease of access.
• Carrying out duties within other departments where required.

About You

Experience

You will hold a degree in a related field and knowledge of pattern cutting and construction. You should have strong attention to detail and accuracy skills and be conversant with related IT software.

Your stakeholders

Your main stakeholders will be the wider Quality Assurance team in ensuring that the highest standards are met to create remarkable clothing for our customers.

Knowledge, skills and behaviours

We expect all of our employees to demonstrate a core set of knowledge, skills and behaviours appropriate to their role:

Knowledge

• The Joe Browns strategy, vision and values, the customer journey
• Understand how your team and your role adds value and interacts with the rest of the business
• Current technical, legal and compliance obligations relating to your work and industry

Skills

• Communication; communicates effectively with all stakeholders, manages expectations of delivery.
• Self-Management; organised, able to manage own time, problem solver, holds self accountable.
• Decision Making; ability to make careful decisions based on available data and recognising where matter should be escalated to a more senior level

Behaviours

• Integrity; honesty, dependability, trustworthy, ethical, fair and inclusive
• Passionate; engaged and enthusiastic in your role and advocate for the business
• Customer and quality focused; outcome orientated; goal focused.
• Collaborative; inclusive, team player, shares ideas
• Self-development champion; active in own development, cognizant of own development needs, ambitious for self and the business
• Consistency; delivery of promises; consistently high standard of output, clear words and actions.
• Brand/ business ambassador; building internal and external community focus, role model for the brand and values of the business, displaying external integrity.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £22,000.00-£24,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Store discount

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Leeds: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Expected start date: 03/07/2023