Denim Designer - & Other Stories – 1 year temporary

Company Description


& Other Stories is a fashion brand offering women a wide range of shoes, bags, accessories, beauty and ready-to-wear to create their personal style, or story. Our creative ateliers in Paris, Stockholm and Los Angeles design diversified fashion collections with great attention to detail and quality. For us there’s no right or wrong when it comes to style, just possibilities and the joy of self-expression. We currently have 73 stores on 22 markets and offer online selling on 32 markets through Stroies.com and external partners. And we are growing!




Job Description


We are looking for:
An experienced and passionate Senior Designer to join our Denim-team in the Stockholm Atelier. We believe you have a high fashion sense, a strong feeling and intuition for trends balanced with a commercial eye. We also believe that you have a big passion for the feminine customer.
You encourage and contribute to the shared responsibility of creating and protecting an inclusive and welcoming workplace where everyone is allowed to self-identify.
Main responsibilities:
As a senior designer at & Other Stories, you are accountable for designing loved products and assortment (OMNI) for your department/s, always with the target customer in mind in order to maximize growth and profitability, short and long term.
Be responsible for the department’s customer focus, always be updated what is happening in the surrounding world for your target customer
Create the product visual goal, in line with company goals. Identify which products the customer wants to have next season.
Plan and create a well-coordinated product assortment with focus on loved products including Essentials, Current fashion and Unique Treasure pieces
Responsible for your department in all customer touch points/sales channels: Identify each channel potential and deliver on it.
Constantly follow the selling and act on new tendencies as well as search for the new commercial fashion





Qualifications


We would love to meet someone who:

Has minimum 3 years of working as a Product Designer / Senior Designer.
Has experience and passion working with denim
Is excited about and understand the & Other Stories customer
Is visionary and driven by trend analysis to be able to predict what your customers will demand in a year from now
Excellent technical knowledge of how products are created and knows fabrics, materials, trims and how patternmaking creates the best fit and design
Strong aesthetic and design process ability to create for our customer description
Strong skills in and used to working in Adobe Creative Suite programs
3D CLO is meriting
Strategic mindset and experience to make commercial strategic decisions for the collection
Experience to see the big picture and secure a well-coordinated product range with a focus on Modern Basics and Current fashion
Is result-oriented and looks at the customers’ needs in every product to secure its value drivers and correct in-price
Has a positive problem-solving attitude and is eager to find new ways
Has excellent communication skills in English, both written and spoken.
Has leadership experience, is strong and secure in leading roles





Additional Information


This is a full-time 1 year temporary position based in Stockholm, to start in December and you will report to the department Section Head.
If your experiences, skills and ambitions are right for this role, please apply with CV and portfolio with relevant work showing design process and finished products from a variety of projects (max 10mb pdf) by 9th of September.
If you are already an employee within the H&M Group: Always remember to initiate a dialogue with your current manager when applying.
We know that diversity is what makes us strong. Our teams should consist of great mix of people that share and combine their knowledge, experiences and ideas. It leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, what we perceive possible and how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world.

We look forward to hearing from you!