Junior Womenswear Print & Graphics Designer - Liverpool

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Our purpose, helping families get more out of life, powers everything we do. 

And we want our people to get more out of life too! If you’re high-performing, ambitious and make the most of every opportunity, we want to hear from you. In return, you’ll enjoy heaps of flexibility, great perks and benefits, and the freedom to be yourself, keep learning and take your career wherever you want it to go. 

If you love making a difference, you’ll love making it sparkle for millions of Very customers. ✨ 

About the team

Our Design team is split across our Covent Garden Office and Liverpool Head Office. The close-knit team are responsible for our own brand design work across menswear, womenswear and home categories. It's a creative environment with design teams working hard to deliver a great product for our customers.

We are looking for a passionate, enthusiastic and hardworking Junior to join our small but dynamic Womenswear team, working from either Liverpool or London.  This role has a focus on looking at and building both speed to market prints & graphics and main womenswear prints and graphics for our own brands ‘The Very Collection & Michelle Keagan”, and being an active member of the womenswear team, helping across multiple categories when needed. 

This role requires experience working within a womenswear team on print & graphics and a detailed understanding of the process for designing a womenswear department, with key areas including Jersey & Wovens. 

What the Junior Designer will be doing:

• Researching print and graphics for both speed to market and long lead, as well as trends across multiple categories, including Jersey, Wovens and Nightwear. 
• Producing print-focused trend boards, catwalk reports and shop reports for multiple women's wear categories. 
• Working closely with buying teams to create a cohesive and saleable print and graphics. 
• Working closely with the technical team, advising factories on techniques and colours. 
• Sourcing from the supply base and building strong relationships with suppliers. 
• Reacting to sales information and designing commercially relevant, fashion-forward graphics and prints with our customer in mind. 

What Very Group is looking for:

• Experienced Womenswear Designer with a keen print & graphic eye.
• A minimum of experience at the Assistant or Junior Designer level
• Ready to take on a new challenge in a varied and important role within our Design team.
• Strong presentation skills and be confident to present designs in meetings 
• Knowledge of printing techniques and fabrics, and ability to translate onto product 
• Knowledge of colour, graphics and print, and ability to incorporate this into trends clearly. 
• Knowledge of Ai: to assist print process. 
• Strong skills in Illustrator, Photoshop, hand-painting and drawing. 
• Ability to create clear and detailed print and graphic packs to be sent to the supply chain. 
• Ability to translate initial ideas and concepts into commercial designs. 

Very Group Benefits:

• Flexible, hybrid working model
• Inclusive culture and environment, check out 
• £1000 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays
• LinkedIn Learning access
• Bonus potential (performance and business-related)
• Up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk
• Matched pension up to 6%
• More benefits can be found 

Diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities

We welcome applications from anyone who believes they can do the job. We don’t discriminate based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.