Department: Menswear
Location: Head Office, Chelsea House
Description
Our Design Team deliver stand-out, affordable fashion with unique style and touches that underpin the River Island handwriting. As a Junior Designer, you’ll start to influence the direction for menswear graphics / print and be accountable for your own styles for inclusion in various ranges, that represent key trends and drive commercial results.
Overview
We are looking for a passionate Junior Graphic / Print Designer with a background in fashion to join our Menswear clothing design team. The candidate should be able to push the boundaries with their design skills to help us stay ahead of the game.
The Role
- Commercially aware of key menswear graphic and print trends from catwalk to street style and able to translate into tech pack ready artworks across different product types.
- Researching, developing, and creating prints, graphics, and logo designs for all-over and placements across all menswear categories.
- Scaling and art working prints and graphics suitable to the product type
- In depth knowledge of different print and application techniques.
- Liase with UK based and overseas factories and suppliers.
- Support the senior designer as well as managing your own designs and workflow.
- Confidently present your designs to the Senior management team.
- Highly versatile with your handwriting.
Please note all applications need to be submitted with a portfolio of work to be considered.
The Person
- Strong experience in the field of print and graphics as part of a fashion design team.
- Advanced Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop skills are essential.
- 2+ years design experience, ideally in a multichannel fashion environment or supplier.
- Ideally operating at or close to Junior Designer level
- Passionate about fashion and design.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment whilst delivering projects on time.
- Ambitious, keen and willing to learn.
- Work effectively on your own initiative as well as part of a team.
- A team player who’s happy assisting colleagues by completing tasks outside their own job role if/when required.
- Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to think quickly, plan and organise your tasks.
- Communicate clearly, accurately and confidently.
- Attention to detail.
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.
💰 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.
