Senior Accessories Designer
- Full Time
- Hammersmith
- Buying and Merchandising
- Permanent
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We are seeking a highly creative and driven Senior Designer to join our Harrods Own Label team. This role focuses on the research, design and delivery of innovative collections of Accessories and Gifts, aligning with our department strategy and key deadlines.
You will be responsible for creating mood boards, developing key shapes, and establishing colour palettes that consistently build brand equity and set industry standards.
About the Role:
As the Senior Designer, you will be responsible for driving the best in class product and newness against the most efficient and slick design processes; working closely with the Buyer, Merchandiser and Technical teams, demonstrating accountability and raising expectations and quality of product.
Within the role, you will also:
- Understand best and worst, current trade, opportunities for growth and opportunities for newness; to therefore be prepared to contribute the design element of spending open to buy funds.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the business and customer, identify and action opportunities to add value in response to this.
- Understand the technicalities of product componentry, what will work technically to deliver the overall design aesthetic.
- Take responsibility for own categories Key Dates, support, at all times, speed-to-market.
- Contribute to Vendor Scorecard process and the Supplier strategy; understanding the overall risks and opportunities and how that impacts design decisions, ensuring the Design Manager is consulted.
- Ensure all designs reflect the Own Label sustainability commitments and to drive supplier improvements at all times.
- Be responsible for product briefings to suppliers.
- Design a range in line with agreed commercial parameters.
Please provide a portfolio attached with your application.
About You:
To be successful within this role, we are looking for an individual with previous experience of Own Label Design in a bridge/luxury brand. You will have an understanding of the luxury retail landscape, having built an innate knowledge over the course of your experience. Within the role, you will be a strong people leader, nurturing an inclusive culture, inspire and role model collaboration and creativity.
You will also have the following qualities:
- Strong commercial awareness
- Quick and efficient communication skills, strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, and be able to bring people on our journey.
- Role model Harrods Values at all times, champion and deliver key business messages.
- Confident in working towards KPIs, and driving the wider team to achieve and develop.
- Able to work towards deadlines and Key Dates, remaining organised and always striving to deliver exceptional results.
About Us
Harrods is one of the world’s leading luxury department stores and we’re becoming a destination for top designers, and the most sought-after brands from around the globe. Our combined mission is to make visiting our iconic Knightsbridge store one of the world’s most inspiring shopping experiences.
Our Promise to You
Help us make the impossible possible for our customers and we’ll do something remarkable for you. As well as offering a friendly environment to inspire your best work, we provide abundant opportunities and support to build an exceptional career across the varied specialisms of our business.
Uniquely You
Whilst our job adverts outline the ideal qualities, skills, and prior experience for the role, we believe in the potential for growth and value individual strengths. If you can demonstrate the majority of skills and strong experience to thrive in this role, we would encourage you to apply.
At Harrods we believe the personality and authenticity of our people sets us apart. We celebrate and invite applications from all cultures, backgrounds, tastes, and experiences and are proud of our culture where people from all walks of life can grow and thrive. What makes you unique makes us exceptional.
If you want to know more about our people and our culture, search #TogetherHarrods on LinkedIn, Facebook or follow us on Instagram @togetherharrods
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Our Values
We have five employee values that show us the way. These values are the behaviours and ways of working that we attach the most importance to at Harrods.
We use our values to illustrate how we want to be with each other, with customers, suppliers and other stakeholders. By living our values together we can make Anything Possible.
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