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As a founding member of the business I worked closely with the director to grow the design team, establish ways of working & grow the potential of in-house brands & teams. My previous multi product experience mixed with my previous hands on approach & with genuine love for product created a way of working that encouraged designers to be involved in all areas of design and manufacturing; such as how to create specs, check pre production samples, how to fit samples and fabric development. This was educational to junior members and created a multi talented design/garment tech hybrid department that made the design department a fundamental role in many areas of the business.My knowledge of manufacturing & factory relationships allowed to me create multi product & territory critical paths for the design team to follow. I ensured that the team were aware of key trends and would bring educated research to range reviews when presenting to the director.I chose to leave the business at the end of 2021 to find a new challenge.* creating and enforcing design team ways of working; creating techpacks, range presentation, production management* Tutoring factory friendly drawings, and general adobe software skills* Create critical paths for all apparel and accessory categories. Communicate with factories regularly Incase of delays and factory capacity.* Educating design in multi product design and manufacturing.* Managing business software; adobe license, Dropbox storage, company card, travel and department expenses* Managing holidays; checking the department always had enough present, and holidays didn’t interfere with key delivery dates.* Welcoming new members of different departments to business.* Managing and delivering on special projects.* Sole design and manufacturing management for premium brands Faded and B Malone.* Factory sourcing and relationship building

Responsible for pushing developments on Ellesse Italia and other licensed brands, and a small team. Due to personal circumstances, I decided to leave the company.In my short time with Focus I lead 3 collections, which were well received and the hand writing was respected for their customer.

During my time at Matalan, I have had multiple responsibilities for different product categories and areas within the business. These included outerwear, bottoms, denim, shirts and jersey. With my previous experience in multi-product design for high street retail, I was able to easily transition between product areas and grow the quality of product. Other duties included…Research and build trends using resources such as WGSN, and creating catwalk reports. Responsibly spending sample budget. Presenting the trends to the company across all buying and Design along with a printed trend pack. International shopping trips to build on product areas.Push product development for outerwear and jersey offering commercial newness to the ranges. Brief suppliers and lead meetings with clear and instructive designs. Far East travel to observe and report on current production and brief new styles. Digitally created design packs that clear and instructive.Build and maintain relationships with factories and understand their strengths and capabilities.Management of junior staff and industrial placements. Guide with confidence and offer the opportunities to grow their profile and strengths so they can independently accomplish tasks.Range building and phasing of product on all areas. Work closely with buying to build a strong and trend lead range that offers a variety of newness and foundation pieces. Recognising best sellers and their relevance within the new range.

When at Debenhams, I was assisting on the in-house brand Mantaray. Although I was a mid entry level, I was given a variety of responsibilities within the brand and the company. I expressed my passion for outerwear and jersey and I was challenged with the task to bring newness within these categories for the brand. Some of my duties were...Building trends as a team with the other assistants. Provide evidence from catwalk and shop reports. Work on brand colour story and phasing key colours ensuring there was no cross over between brands. Present the trends with the other assistant designers to the senior management and directors.Push designs for jersey and outerwear. Create digital design packs, which were clear and instructive across multiple product areas. Independently lead meetings with suppliers to brief new fabrics and designs and follow up on progress to ensure we had samples in sufficient time for meetings.Being present in range builds and product/brand sign offs. Be there to explain and give evidence for why a sample is in the range. Raise profile with senior management.Work closely with buying to independently build and develop products. Grow knowledge on responsibilities of other staff members.

I joined French Connection straight from university after being recruited during Graduate Fashion Week. It was a fast moving and exciting role with lots of responsibilities. My line manager guided me through design processes so that I would be able to independently and confidently accomplish tasks and provide new and fashion lead ranges. I was apart of a small team, which helped me to grow my profile throughout the business and become an important part of company.Create new concepts per season with holiday collections. Use mood imagery to illustrate themes and clear colour stories. Phase key items responsibility through the season. Send out fabric developments to factories and action lab dips and yardage. Detailed and clear digital designs to brief the in-house pattern room and initiate sampling. Work with country offices on managing sampling and progress. Be present and lead fit sessions before finished tech packs are sent for production.Work closely with buying on reducing costs and meet price points.Build the range as a showroom to present to buyers across retail and wholesale. Book and manage models to produce an internal look book to guide marketing to carry out into shops and online.