Assistant Designer - Sleepwear

From Merchandising and Marketing - Product Development and Design, through to Supply Chain and Space Planning - our mission is to bring stylish wardrobe, home and beauty essentials to our customers via an easy, inspiring shopping experience online and in store that will delight them every time.

As we accelerate the transformation of our business to suit the changing needs of our customer, we need results-orientated colleagues that not only have a passion for our product, but a strong team working ethos, creativity and a healthy commercial aim to join us on our journey.

We're looking for a creative and detail-oriented Assistant Designer to join our Sleepwear team! In this role, you'll support the design process from concept to production-assisting with trend research, sketching, CAD development, fabric and trim sourcing, and tech pack creation. You'll collaborate closely with senior designers, product development, and merchandising teams to ensure cohesive and compelling seasonal collections. This is a great opportunity for someone passionate about fashion, especially in the loungewear and sleepwear space, looking to grow in a fast-paced, design-driven environment

IMPORTANT - Please make sure you include a sample of your portfolio to your application

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.

What's in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever, and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special

• After completing your probationary period, you'll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption, and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

What you'll do

Your key accountabilities will include

• Use product knowledge to source elevated trend images, compile and support with generation of layout Design Product Strategy (DPS) boards, have a keen eye for identifying relevant Sleep and intimate's trends.
• Research current and emerging trends, sharing ideas with the Design team to help ensure ranges are continually evolving and market leading.
• Create CAD's using photoshop / illustrator to show true representation of product for range reviews and PLM tech packs. Knowledge of 3D/AI design would also be beneficial.
• Collating Trend Presentations by supporting the team with detailed and regular research reports.
• Collate and organised seasonal colour process for Ladies Sleepwear.

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include

• Expert in the field of design with design experience within the Retail industry preferably the intimate's domain.
• Strong design and CAD skills (2D and 3D) with an eye for detail and trim execution.
• Experience with Miro to preferred.
• PLM experience ideal but not essential
• Experience in briefing and specifying direct design sourced product, working with Technology/Design and Buying to create high standards of Tech Packs. The candidate would have a real passion for details and understand workmanship of sleepwear.

Everyone's welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We're disrupting, innovating, and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We're transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted, and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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