As a Senior Designer at COS you are responsible to deliver the company vision and targets clearly for the Knitwear & Jersey department and leading your team towards this. In this role you are responsible for building and driving a strong assortment, providing products that sits in a complete wardrobe in all layers of the triangle meeting the customers’ requirements and the COS aesthetic. You are responsible to drive the selling, constantly with the customers’ expectations in mind. You will be responsible for growing and developing junior team members within your department.
What you will do:
- Work collaboratively with design, buying and pattern teams from concept to completion aligning on seasonal direction, trends, timelines and customer insights.
- Create, drape and garment construction, working with premium fabrics.
- Build an assortment by delivering a considered collection that is true to the cos design aesthetic.
- Work with the broader design teams to ensure that there is a clear definition between the departments.
- Ensure the development of the collection and trends each season, providing a complete wardrobe offer for our customer.
- Responsible for driving the research for the knit & jersey department, ensuring customer focus by constantly evaluate and explore our customers, working with our customer types, trends and customer insights and tendencies.
- Collaborate with all functions in the design/buying/pattern department, to ensure you deliver an efficient workflow and operate-towards long-and short-term goals that you set for your department.
- Lead and develop assistant & junior designers to grow the business, guide them through the whole employee life cycle.
- Ensure to maintain the critical path by preparing meetings and informing the team.
- Provide high level of awareness and knowledge of current and future trends to enhance design quality of the department.