Assistant Designer - Kidswear

From Merchandising and Marketing - Product Development and Design, through to Supply Chain and Space Planning - our mission is to bring stylish wardrobe, home and beauty essentials to our customers via an easy, inspiring shopping experience online and in store that will delight them every time.

We’re looking for a creative and proactive Assistant Designer to join our Babywear team on a 12-month fixed-term contract, working 3 days per week. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a collaborative and fast-paced design team, supporting the creation of commercially focused, trend-aware collections.

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.

What’s in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever, and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…

• After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption, and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

What you’ll do

Your key accountabilities will include

• Use product knowledge to source images, compile and layout Design Product Strategy (DPS) boards, identifying relevant trends.
• Research current and emerging trends, sharing ideas with the Design team to help ensure ranges are continually evolving and market leading.
• Support the Designer with the co-ordination of day-to-day activities.
• Collaborate with the Designers to meet critical path deadlines and deliver the right designs, at the right time.
• Create CAD’s using photoshop / illustrator to show true representation of product for range reviews and PLM tech packs.

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include

• Expert in the field of design with design experience within the Retail industry
• Experience in briefing and specifying direct design sourced product, working with Technology/Design and Buying to create high standards of Tech Packs.
• High level of proficiency in Design IT applications to optimise the quality of design work e.g., Photoshop, illustrator, CAD.
• Multitask orientated with the ability to work to tight deadlines to the Design and Buying critical path.
• Effective communication and influencing skills.

Everyone’s welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating, and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted, and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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