Mens Wear Designer

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 the 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 a high design success rate and achieve targets.

Coordinate with the Fabric Department and in charge of the 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 a 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 and give broad direction to individual brands

Create themes for different seasons and provide the seasons theme brief to the marketing and visual merchandising team

5) Adherence to design calendar & SOP and maintaining OTIF

Monitor the activities of the design team to ensure delivery of designs as per design calendar.

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

Job Requirement:

a) Overall Experience: 5 years of experience into Menswear Design.

b) Industry Experience: Experience in Pret / Ethnic / Classy Western/Couture

c) Educational Qualification: Post Graduation.

d) Technical Skills Required: Wellversed with adobe Photoshop/ Illustrator/Corel draw Innovative

ability to think strategically.