Lane Bryant is looking for a Designer to direct, build and develop product ideas for the Dresses, Skirts, and Sweaters categories, ensuring alignment with seasonal concepts, line plans, and margin requirements.
Requirements
- 5-7 years of experience in a design or product development related position for a fashion retailer.
- Extensive background in fit, fabric development, finishes and construction details.
- Proficient in Word, Excel and Power Point.
- Prior PLM, Adobe Illustrator and Kaleidostyle experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Sourcing to research and develop core and key fabrications, trim, embellishment appropriate to the category. Initiate test recommendations on a seasonal and ongoing basis
- Clearly present design point of view at seasonal, design owned PLC meetings to senior management and merchant team
- Execute timelines on Product Calendar and Line Plan needs
- Attend all Fit sessions pertaining to your product working closely with the Technical Design partners to maintain initial vision and Brand fit
- Communicate with Agent/ Vendor offices to ensure correct design detail execution for categories
- Coordinate category samples and CADs for line review and Line Coordination
- Partner and communicate with Sourcing to ensure accurate translation of design intent
Other
- Knowledge of customer needs/wants as well as current and emerging trends with the ability to translate into brand right product balancing core and fashion
- Support Senior Designers and design directors on process, best practices and milestone meetings
- Partner with merchants to know and understand sales of your category and be able to apply this sales knowledge to future development
- Manage, coach, evaluate direct reports and foster their professional development
- Excellent managerial, organization and leadership skills
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
- Applicants to this position must be authorized to work for any employer in the US without sponsorship. We are not providing sponsorship for this position.
