Design Assistant - Kidswear

We’re looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Design Admin Assistant to join our vibrant Kidswear team. In this role, you’ll support the Design team with day-to-day tasks, helping to ensure presentations, key activities, and critical path deadlines are met smoothly and efficiently.

You’ll be hands-on in producing high-quality work that supports the team creatively and administratively playing a key part in bringing our ideas to life.

**IMPORTANT - Please make sure you include a sample of your portfolio to your application**

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…

• 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!
• 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

• Creates clear and detailed CAD work supporting Tech pack creation
• Creates stylish design boards under guidance to deliver strong and clear design messages
• Shopping for samples and research material under guidance and direction from design team
• Flexes time and priorities across the team according to workload to ensure critical path deadlines are met
• Supports the Design team through delegated tasks covering trim development, PLM support, CAD support, and general research for Designers

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include

• Design Degree or equivalent
• Strong design and CAD skills with an eye for detail
• High level of proficiency in Design related CAD software to include Illustrator, Photoshop and In Design
• Multitask orientated with the ability to work to tight deadlines to the critical path
• Ability to create trend boards under direction and set up products for seasonal design briefs and presentations

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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