Assistant Technologist - Footwear & Accessories

About The Role: Every exceptional customer moment starts with our people At TFG London, we believe that it’s our team who bring our house of brands to life. All our colleagues across Hobbs, Phase Eight, Whistles, and Inside Story play a vital role in our success story and that story is only getting more exciting! These are exciting times at TFG London. We have enjoyed strong growth in recent years and currently have iconic brands in our portfolio including Phase Eight, Whistles and Hobbs and our luxury Homewares brand Inside Story. We are not stopping there, we have big plans for the next three years within our current brands and beyond. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Technologist to join our beautiful Phase Eight brand. Initially you will be working on non-clothing, including footwear and accessories. You will be working closely with your suppliers, buying and design teams from concept through to final production, ensuring that the products are fit for purpose. In terms of your personal development, you will have access to internal support from an experienced and dedicated technical team. You will also be required to provide some support to the technical teams, allowing you to gain an understanding across the different product areas and develop your skills in the technical department. What you'll do: As an Assistant Technologist Non-Clothing, you'll be involved in bringing our beautiful designs to life, ensuring every product is perfect for our Phase Eight customer. Reporting to the Senior Technical Manager, you'll be hands-on with: Becoming a technical expert, assessing quality standards, preparing technical comments and ensuring all technical paperwork is ready. Ensuring quality excellence by making sure every product meets our quality standards and is fit for purpose. This means you'll also be involved in assessing test reports as well as trims/components Working closely with our Technical, Design, and Buying teams, assisting in the creation of accurate workbooks and packs for our supply base. Being a vital link between our suppliers and internal teams, communicating amendments clearly and effectively. Assisting in our sustainable strategy, helping to maintain essential certification paper trails. Who you'll be: As the Assistant Technologist, you'll be a vital part of our technical team. You'll be someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, is exceptionally organised, and loves working collaboratively. You'll be great at building and maintaining effective working relationships at all levels, both internally and with our supplier base. What’s in it for you: It's not just what you can do for us. Throughout We will give you the tools and the time to develop your career in the direction you want to go. Alongside that, we have some great benefits which include: Generous colleague discount up to 70% Up to 28 days holiday entitlement per annum Financial and Wellbeing assistance Enhanced Maternity package Virtual GP service – unlimited access 24/7 If you want to join us and create moments that matter, we’d love to hear from you. TFG London Inclusion and Diversity statement of commitment: At TFG London and across all our brands we are committed to creating an inclusive culture that welcomes, develops and celebrates a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, cultural references and ideas and opinions within our business. We are working together to ensure our environment is one where difference is not only respected but encouraged and celebrated and people can bring their authentic, unique selves to work, where their contribution is valued, ability enhanced, and perspective appreciated.