Print Designer

We’re the feel-good fashion brand making style accessible and fun for over 55 years, on our website, mobile app and over 300 stores in the UK.

By living our values - we play to win, customer obsessed, we are one and it starts with me - we deliver That New Look Feeling for our customers and each other. 

The Role:

Great role for an experienced Print Designer to join our team. This role will focus on women’s and swimwear. If you enjoy working in the fast paced and exciting environment, juggling multiple plates and having a good laugh as you do – then the New Look Design team is for you! This role offers a wide breath of autonomy, reporting directly into the Print and Colour manager and working with a talented team. You will love trend, colour, print and pattern and be on the pulse of what’s next. Your print will inspire, from pushing trend newness and not being afraid to embrace what’s next to being comfortable with creating seasonal updates for core newness.
You will put the customer requirements at the centre of your designs and deliver an offer that is commercial, yet exciting.  You will support the Company Design strategy by designing and developing print artworks that are in line with current trend, customer profiles and brand direction. You will have vast experience in designing print for women’s and/or swimwear ranges. You will have experience working within retail or supply.

WHATS IN IT FOR YOU:

• 40% staff discount plus friends & family discounts throughout the year
• Access to our reward platform for external discount and offers
• Private pension scheme
• Virtual GP access for you and your children – it allows you to speak to a doctor at a time and date that suits you
• All employees are covered by our life assurance policy from day one
• Unlock extra leave with our buy more holiday scheme.
• Celebrate YOU! Enjoy an extra paid day off on your birthday each year
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and shared parental leave (eligible after 2 years’ service).
• Spread the cost of your commute with interest-free season ticket loans
• Do your bit for the environment and save money with our Cycle2Work scheme
• We're proud to partner with the Retail Trust and Fashion & Textile Children's Trust

What you’ll be doing:

• Excellent design, print and drawing/painting skills (digital or physical). 
• Strong eye for colour, colour combinations and trend.
• Trend is a huge focus here at New Look. You will demonstrate an excellent understanding of print/ graphic trends, using an array of sources- with influences from catwalks/ social media /street styleand cultural events.
• Work closely with product designers and buying teams to collaborate on ideas and direction.
• Excellent spec skills- understanding of pantone system and factory ready files.
• In-depth trend knowledge, being able to identify emerging trends and ability to influence the buying teams with your trend knowledge and commercial eye. Looking at opportunities to react quickly, with strong understanding of the market and critical path.
• Clearly identifying key print trends from a long lead and speed to market point of view, and presenting these in a clear and exciting way to wider teams.
• Driving new trends commercially through product ranges with the New Look brand handwriting and customer front of mind
• Manages he critical path from design concept through to final strike off comments/ approvals.
• Working in synergy with Design/ Buying to build a strong fashion yet commercial range, sharing ideas and information with other product areas to ensure brand / product consistency
• Good influencing skills and self believe, to ensure that newness is delivered into the range, at the correct grading in collaboration with Buying
• Developing the right prints at the right time, in line with the departmental design strategy to meet customer requirements
• Communicating effectively with all internal and external teams. Confident to feedback to direct report and suppliers on their designs, in a constructive way.
• An excellent understanding of the New Look Customer
• Ongoing familiarity of the competition’s product range
• Challenging current ways of working and practices across departments and functions, coming up with new initiatives to benefit the whole business and implementing these.

Who you are:

• Excel in using Adobe - Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design
• Management of workload according to the critical path
• Excellent interpersonal / communication skills
• Good organisational skills
• Flexible, adaptable and able to work in a fast-paced environment
• Pro-active in approach and seeks solutions
• Fully represent and demonstrate our New Look Values
• Previous experience as a Print Designer (or similar) within a major retailer / department within New Look / established supplier
• Fashion Qualification / Other degree desirable

Why New Look?
We care about you and the planet and believe fashion should be a force for positive change.  We celebrate inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We’re proud of our inclusive culture and our talented team members who embrace our shared purpose, behaviours and values. 

We prioritise development, offering training to support your progression, so you can be your absolute best and achieve your goals. 

We pride ourselves on being a flexible employer, our colleagues work a range of patterns. If you have a specific pattern in mind, we're keen to discuss this with you in line with the output needed for the role.