Senior Apparel Fashion Designer

Fashion Designer 

A. Collaborative Design

Roles & Responsibilities

1. Identifying the right partner customers based on their alignment with our fashion, values, collaborative abilities, calendar and creating pitches customized to them.

2. Designing into aesthetics, price points (that serve Creatnet + Customers + Vendors), timelines, environmental balance

3. Help the customer build a brief to meet our checklist 

4. Managing customer accounts: design aesthetic, price points, core materials, design/production calendar. Collaborating with BU head to create customer wise a) Fabric Bracket b) CMTP bracket c) YY (80%)

5. Plugging in India’s capabilities, adding value through sourcing and designing  

Key Result Area

1. Hit Rates of designs 

2. Ability to retain customers 

3. Customer Satisfaction Assessment

Key Initiatives

1. Creating a directory of fabrics: Core, Trend based experiments 

Competency

1. Operate as intrapreneurs, responsible for the BU

2. Designing into pricing 

3. Technical design: reducing waste/consumption,  

4. Storytelling the creation process highlighting themes of collaboration & India

5. Thinking through and Planning the calendar that integrates all the roles

B. Facilitating Design to Production

Roles & Responsibilities

1. Accountable for collaborative design process in Product Development: enable the collaboration of Material Merchants(trims-fabric), Technicians, to ensure price points , productivity, customer needs and timelines at Product Development stage. 

2. Managing customer relationship through communication during the production process. (Updates, clarifications, production/sustainability suggestions, 

3. Working with PPC to consolidate vendors based on season and brand 

4. Initiating a platform to see the PP & TOP and sharing the story with customers 

Handover success measures?

Key Result Area

1. PD timeliness: plan for calender (customer & vendor) and quality 

2. Ensuring timely delivery through Weekly WIPs: with pre updations and MOMS

Competency

Technicians and Designers to collaborate+operate as ‘Technical Designers’

C. Financial Responsibility

Roles & Responsibilities

1. Having a financial acumen to understand revenue goal and plan accordingly

2. Managing gross margins: Upon receiving the tech pack, having a clear picture/plan of the interlinkage between the revenue goals x groups x garments x amount x price x cost x timelines

3. Designing into Sales & Growth: Meeting financial goals: designing the right amount of groups for the right amount of customers. 

Key Result Area

1. Financial goal fulfillment: Creating Sales Sheet and meeting the stated goals

Qualification : Must be from NIFT

Salary: 45-90k

Exp. : 3-12 years