Designer - Stylerunner

Part of the Accent Group portfolio of brands, Stylerunner is the world’s leading digital destination for premium activewear & footwear, delivering the latest on-trend styles to the fashion devotees around the globe who love to lead an active lifestyle. We have a fun and collaborative culture, dedicated to delivering excellence for our customers.Our Mission is to deliver the most fashion-forward curation of active and off-duty to our customer in a unique, innovative, and personal way. The Stylerunner product range is unlike any other store. We showcase top tier, highly sought-after collections from over 70 established and emerging designer brands.
**About the Role**:

- Established Designer
- Reporting to Head of Design
- Responsible for the design and development of apparel product
- You will collaborate with Designers across adjacent categories, as well as with the Head of Design, Product Developers and Buying team

**Your Responsibilities Will Include**:

- Creating and executing design concepts with a focus on colour and graphic direction
- Trend forecasting and concept development, interpreting trends and translating them into commercial product deliveries.
- Ahead of season sourcing - fabric and trims
- Range building and sketching, presenting CADs and storyboards for design sign off
- Creating thorough, detailed Tech Packs and inputting to PLM system
- Working with a garment technician to perfect fits
- Liaising with offshore suppliers

**To succeed in this role, you will need to have**:

- 3+ years in a similar role
- Thrives in a busy and fast paced environment
- Demonstrated experience across product development within the retail industry
- Strong design eye and be obsessed with fashion and lifestyle trends
- Understanding of fashion and activewear fabrications, silhouettes and construction techniques
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Excellent attention to detail
- Must be organized with exceptional time management skills
- Collaborative and strong interpersonal skills
- Experience with pre-production approval processes - lab dips, strike offs, prototying, sample approvals
- Be customer focused, commercial and coordinate product ranges that both grow sales, and position our brand as best in market.
- High level of proficiency with Adobe Creative suite
- Affiliation with Accent Group core values and “Make it Happen” attitude
- This is a print driven role - if you are someone who is passionate about this, and can create their own prints and repeats, that would be highly advantageous

At Accent Group Limited we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and inclusion. We believe in the diversity of our people across age, gender, identity, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, physical and mental ability. We strive on creating an equal employment environment where everyone from any background can be themselves.The Accent Group acknowledges, and pays respect, to the Traditional Owners and ongoing custodians of the land. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Maori people.