Brand Menswear Styling Lead, 12 Month FTC

Department: Brand Creative

Location: Head Office, Chelsea House

Description

The Brand Styling Lead is responsible for curating and maintaining a cohesive visual identity for the retailer across all touchpoints. This role combines creative vision with a strategic approach to styling, ensuring that all campaigns and gallery styling align with the brand’s image, resonate with the target audience, and drive customer engagement.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Execute the brands styling aesthetic and guidelines in line with the brand identity for campaign and gallery shoots.
• Develop and implements clear styling guidelines and standards to ensure consistency and alignment across the team’s work, fostering a unified brand identity.
• Act as the primary point of contact (division specific) for online and campaign styling consistency.
• Oversee the styling of photoshoots, ensuring all outfits and accessories align with the brand’s target customer and trends.
• Collaborate with photographers and art directors to deliver visually compelling assets.
• Research fashion trends, competitor activity, and customer insights to inform styling choices.

Collaborate with buying and merchandising teams to ensure styled looks reflect current stock and key items

Manage and mentor a team of stylists and junior creatives.

Use styling to communicate the brand’s ethos, target audience, and positioning.

About Us

We’re a much-loved brand with an exciting future. Our Islanders are a diverse bunch of bright, talented people who love working together – and are proud of the work they do. Progression here can take you in all kinds of directions. This is what a career at River Island is like. And this is where yours starts.

This role is based at our Head Office in West London. Check us out here on a map.

What we can offer you:

💰 Generous 50% staff discount so you can treat yourself to the latest products, and a bargain staff shop on site!

🛒 Reducing Islanders everyday expenses through discounts, benefits, financial advice, wellbeing solutions and more through Reward Gateway!

🎉 A free onsite gym, subsidised restaurant & café to fill you needs. Various social events to socialise throughout the year.

🤎 Every family is unique, we support Islanders with all different family setups enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption & fertility treatment. We also work closely with the Retail Trust to create dedicated support for all our Islanders!

💻 Flexible working is a given, on top of payday and summer early finish Fridays.

💕 Give as you earn scheme, a ‘Giver Island’ day each year and receive matched funding.

🎓 Support with upskilling through on the job training and qualifications. A succession plan if you want to progress.

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A generous bonus scheme & private pension plan.

🩺 The choice to opt in for healthcare through our provider AXA.

☀️ 25 days paid holiday, exclusive of Bank Holidays. With the added option to purchase additional holiday twice a year for whatever the need!

Keeping You Safe

At River Island we are committed to the safeguarding of all of our employees regardless of age or job role. We will fulfil our obligation under the Prevent duty which seeks to stop extremism and extremist views from materialising in our business. We promote and encourage the belief in British Values- including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs. To find out more, please visit www.gov.uk.

Our Island is made up of a diverse community, where we all belong and feel part of something bigger. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles unless operational requirements prevent otherwise. To find out more about this interview process, check out our hiring process below.