Fashion Design Junior Director/Senior Manager(English+Chinese)
Beijing, Beijing, China
Full Time
Manager/Supervisor
- Be a creative leader, drive innovation & commercial newness in your categories. Guide your teams to recognize the latest Asian & global trends & clearly understand the Vero Moda target consumer
- Lead your team to recognize the key selling point of all garments, teach them how to improve or enhance the original inspiration
- Provide coaching and problem-solving support for the team to enable them to perform at their best in fittings, ensure that they recap & are able to give clear directions
- Competent at driving a balanced & structured research that covers not only the trends & KOLS but also the market leaders, fabrics, details & any business opportunities that support your categories.
- Lead your teams in sample buying & inspiration trips - hunt for the new, cool & commercial products & be an expert at facilitating the communication between your teams to bring out the best ideas & concepts
- Oversee & drive the fabric research & upgrade your categories. Regularly visit the fabric fairs, bring innovation & build up your teams fabric library
- Oversee the library of finishing & detail ideas - ensure your Managers are kept updated.
- Oversee that the existing Core Library, seasonally meet with the Buying teams to form a strategic updated the offers
- Optimize workflow and product development processes to ensure the team delivers creative and innovative designs, ensuring all the best sellers are covered, and the offer is based on strong research and innovation
- Assist Senior Management to lead the Development Meetings. Ensure your Designers are prepared with their data, present their garments convincingly & are able to create & resolve problems on the spot
- Assist Senior Management to lead the Post-Development Meetings & drive the concepts across categories
- Work closely with Head of buying and Category design Mangers.
- Lead by example and exercise good judgment to foster a culture of excellence and innovation within the team
- Be a leader & role model in effective communication: meet regularly with your teams, ensure a pleasant & productive team environment
- Maintain strong relationships with the Buying, Retail, EC & Senior Management
- Continuously build up yours & your team’s commercial knowledge: spending time in Vero Moda stores & with our competitors. Study from both Retail & EC. Be fully immersed in the Chinese Web sites & social media.
- Provide on-going workshops & a productive environment to develop & nurture your teams skills, and show initiative, contribute & action ideas to improve your category
- Grow the brands total sales year on year, through development and implementation of effective creative and commercial strategies matching with TA
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