JUNIOR DESIGNER TO ARKET KIDS
- Full-time
Company Description
Are you an experienced Junior Designer who would like to develop your design skills further in our creative customer focused environment? In combination with great energy, drive and communication skills, then you might be the one we are looking for!
We are 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 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 ARKET’s success and believe that a fun working place generates great business results
Job Description
As a Junior designer at Arket Kids, you support the senior designer in developing loved products and assortment. This role includes working with the full ARKET Girls kids assortment and also the Girls and Boys accessories collection. You work in tight collaboration with the rest of the team, always with the target customer in mind in order to maximize growth and profitability, short and long term.
Some of your tasks and responsibilities includes, but are not limited to:
- Assist the planning, development and designing of the assortment and products
- Contribute to product range based on visual goal
- Participate in fitting sessions and drive all design related tasks for sample handling
- Create and update tech packs, overviews, flat- and detail sketches
- Constantly follow the selling and act on new tendencies as well as search for the new commercial fashion
Qualifications
- BA in fashion and/or textile design
- Working experience as a Junior/Assistant Designer within commercial fashion
- Knowledge in design and product development
- Genuine interest in and well updated on global fashion and trends
- Technical knowledge of how products are created and how fabrics, materials, trims and patternmaking create the best fit and design driving selling
- Business sense and strong salesmanship
- A highly driven self-motivator who is used to take initiative
- Very structured with strong organizational skills and methodical way of working running varied tasks parallell in a fast paced environment
- Eager to learn and develop both yourself and the people you work with
- Strong communication skills
- Fluent in English, both verbal and written (Swedish not necessary)
- Used to work a diverse and constantly changing organization to which you also bring your unique perspective
Additional Information
We offer a work place 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.
If you feel your experience, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please send your CV and design portfolio (No cover letters please) as soon as possible, latest by 22nd Nov . Interviews will be held on a continuous basis. It is a permanent position starting as soon as possible working on site in the Arket head office, Stockholm, Sweden. (If you are a current employee in H&M Group, please speak with your manager when applying)
We look forward to hearing from you!