• Works with senior designer with development and presentation of seasonal design concepts. Responsibilities include market research for innovative ideas, competitive product awareness, and pricing and organization and presentation of design boards

• Hand sketches design ideas for review, translates them into Adobe Illustrator, and oversees handoff of sketch sheets and BOMs to Technical Design Team

• Participates in all fittings, maintains fit notes, and communicates fit updates to partner teams

• Prepares showroom for market week and proto review and maintains seasonal archive library

• Partners with merchandising and production teams to advance sketches and prototypes to market samples

• Builds seasonal development packages and communicates with them overseas

• Trains and manages the assistant designer

• Assisted with development of seasonal design concepts

• Helped hand sketch and CAD technical flats

• Participated in all fittings and design hand-offs

• Maintained organization of incoming fabrics, developments, samples for showroom, and line sheets

• Helped communicate with cross functional teams to advance sketches and prototypes to market samples

• Researches mill cards to manage fabric raw material charts in Excel and FlexPLM

• Looks over production fabric daily with colorist to ensure fabric meets quality and color standards

• Trouble shoots issues with the mill while maintaining fabric delivery timing

• Analyzes and tracks fabric test results to see if the goods meet standards before it ships to the factory

• Attends all pre and post market meetings to provide fabric information to help hit margins and deadlines

• Sends out all fabric standards to mills after post market meetings

• Negotiates fabric pricing and calls out below minimum surcharges based on fabric quantity pivot tables

• Creates risk assessments to call out potential fabric issues before production