Womenswear Designer Vacancy in Cape Town December 2016

Jobs description : Womenswear Designer Vacancy in South Africa 2016

Career opportunity at Taudata in South Africa 2016

To design a commercial, beautiful product that meets and exceeds customer expectations and drives sales through adherence to the company’s merchandise cycle.

• Build partnerships across departments and work in an integrated way to optimise the design capability.
• Develop concepts, storyboard, sketches and drawings of new designs to be considered within the groups in line with the design direction.
• Develop fabric design using the CAD tool.
• Conduct fabric workshops.
• Review fabric and material options for the season.
• Conduct final fabric review to sign-off fabric selection for the season.
• Determine colours for the season aligned to overall trend colour palette presented.
• Review and approve seasonal colour lab dips in line with agreed seasonal colour direction.
• Develop seasonal colour boards.
• Conduct inspirational shopping.
• Identify trial opportunities in current season for future season.
• Develop design direction in prototype sample or CAD/photo sample form and present to design managers for sign-off.
• Approve and sign-off on design direction and proposed continuity items in a season.
• Develop product spec pack/tech pack.
• Brief ideas, sketches and initial sample requests and costing sheets to relevant suppliers (good, better, best pricing strategy) in line with sourcing strategy.
• Determine product specifications/tech pack for continuity and selected items dependent upon supplier capability.
• Develop design brief.
• Present season, including styles, looks, themes and fabrics.
• Present season, continuity and selected items, opportunities in line with strategy and design direction.
• Review and approve design brief samples and agree continuity items, volume input and input items for a season.
• Build relationships with suppliers.
• Develop, motivate, inspire and lead the design assistants and provide ongoing feedback to enhance performance and deliver the seasonal product direction.

Technical and functional competencies

• Relevant design diploma/degree.
• Two to five years’ commercial/design experience.
• Deep retail skill and understanding, both local and global.
• Merchant and retail ability.
• Product knowledge.
• Creativity, taste level and flair in line with the brand.
• Ability to sketch.
• Trend analysis and editing skills.
• Ability to predict trends.
• Process thinking skills.
• Ability to work in Photoshop and Illustrator.

Behavioural competencies

• Passion for product/merchandise.
• Persuasiveness.
• Interpersonal skills – ability to work with diverse groups of people.
• Effective communication and presentation skills.
• Team player – service orientated.
• Delivering high performance.
• Driving quality.
• Planning and organising.

Contact details
Taudata
julie@taudata.co.za