Menswear Designer

We are looking to hire a Menswear Designer for our brand Anita Dongre (Couture)

Job Description:

1) Fashion Forecasting

- Analyze the market and monitor current fashion trends, collections, customer preferences and competitor activities. - Develop and lead new category for the company.

- Identify target markets for designs, looking at factors such as age, gender, and socioeconomic status.

- Forecast fashion for the season and give guidelines to the stakeholders in design team.

2) Apparel Design

- Plan and create new designs post getting concept guidelines from Creative Director for Look of the Season/Special collection/events etc.

- Set clearly defined guidelines and plan the design range as per sales budget.

- Ensure designs are at par with the current market trends and in line with Brand Philosophy.

- Ensure precise designs are offered in order to maintain high design success rate and achieve targets.

- Coordinate with Fabric Department and in charge of Team of Pattern makers, Tailors, cutting masters etc. for sample making and end to end coordination for final production.

- Lead and provide overall creative direction to the brand by conceptualizing and developing range for different seasons.

- Ensure desirable level of design approval ratio and give regular feedback in order to make clear decisions on the design range.

3) Innovation

- Ensure seasonal freshness of the collections in tune with international benchmarks and trends to drive brand as an innovative fashion leader.

- Promote new concepts, designs, systems and out of the box thinking for product innovations and processes.

4) Market Research

- Analyze the market and monitor current fashion trends, collections, customer preferences and competitor activities for fashion forecasting.

- Create themes for different seasons and provide the season's theme brief to the marketing and visual merchandizing team

5) Adherence to design calendar & SOP

- Responsible for strengthening the design & merchandising process and ensuring SOP is adhered for smooth delivery of the product

Years of experience - 8 + years

Interested candidates please send your CV on[Confidential Information]with a subject lineApplication – Menswear Designer