Job Description
Job Position: Assistant Designer and Merchandiser
Exp: 3-5 yrs of Fashion Designing and Merchandising experience
Location: Gurgaon
Company Brief:
FableStreet is a workwear brand for women, offering solution-driven styles that address the lifestyle needs of working women. Founded in 2016, it has been invested in by Fireside Ventures.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Research seasonal trends, product ideas, colours, prints, fabrics, and styling based on brand philosophy
- Create detailed tech packs that illustrate design and construction details with high accuracy
- Collection Design development : Sketches/Illustrations/Graphics
- Maintain and improve product quality by taking corrective steps at ground level i.e. fabric, fit, wash, workmanship.
- Create line sheet based on seasonal concepts and with appropriate design /color/prints
- Support Sr. Designer and Merchandiser in Sourcing, Merchandising & costing for trims/fabrics/fillings
- Understand design from a technical perspective, i.e. producing patterns and technical specifications for designs.
- Coordinate & communicate with various departments and suppliers & assure timely execution and deliveries.
- Coordinate with Brand Communications team for marketing initiatives
- Fitchecks on dummy and model and Pattern correction guidance
Qualification & Experience:
- Team Management experience
- Experience in women's wear
- 3-5 years total experience with at least 1 year (or more) puffer jackets, knitwear, winter wear sourcing
- Fashion design/knitwear design graduate from NIFT/Pearl or any reputed design school
- Demonstrates high level aesthetics and creative ability
- Out-of-box thinking and an ability to generate quick design ideas
- Strong critical thinking to set up processes from scratch
- Strong organisational skills and highly detail-oriented
- Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills - verbal. written and visual
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple deadlines and calendars
- Ability to take complete ownership of the work with minimal supervision
- High proficiency in Design softwares like Microsoft Excel, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, CorelDraw etc