Design Studio Assistant

Sahara creates contemporary clothing with a unique, bohemian-chic aesthetic inspired by the spirit of adventure, global design discoveries and unbounded creativity.

We make clothes for the individual not the crowd; with each piece created using luxurious natural fabrics and traditional techniques, Sahara provides an antidote to the culture of fast fashion. Our pieces are designed to feel luxurious, flattering, and timeless, created to last season upon season.

We are looking for all rounder Design Studio Assistant with excellent CAD skills to join our Design Team.

The Design Studio Assistant is a key and a diverse role; one which also requires excellent organisational, communication and design skills.

As a person, you will naturally be creative with a well-developed sense of colour and an innate love and knowledge of woven and jersey textile fabrics and prints.

Core Responsibilities

Working within a busy design team, your responsibilities whilst not exhaustive, will include:

• Create proportioned CADs from Designer's sketches with all garment construction details provided by designers.
• Create coloured CADs / print-filed CADs on photoshop/illustrator
• Create factory-ready tech packs for all garments with all notes and garment construction details
• Create sample programme sheets, keep an up to date sample tracker.
• Action samples with factories to be produced, liaising with suppliers, factories and mills.
• Organise sample garments when they arrive - tag and keep track of deliveries.
• Organise and keep track of all physical garments for all seasons.
• Archive garment samples from past seasons
• Create line sheets, range overviews.
• Sales analysis of garments sold well for each season - keep up-to-date folder of sales performance for Creative Director and Designers.

Profile:

• A Design or Textile degree
• A minimum of intern-level/work experience under your belt
• Keen to progress in your Design path
• Passion for fabrics and textiles with excellent knowledge
• Sound understanding of garment construction
• Highly proficient with Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator.
• Proficient with Excel
• Able to work under tight deadlines within a fast-paced environment
• Thrive in a busy department with ever-changing priorities.
• Highly organised
• Great communication skills and be confident conversing on the phone and over email
• A positive, can-do attitude with a solution-driven approach

We offer:

• Competitive salary
• Generous holiday allowances
• Flexible start and finish times in a friendly office
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Access to exclusive perks and discounts via Perkbox

Sahara is passionate about working with great people & we love to build inspirational, creative teams. We know how important it is to enjoy your working day and we are lucky to have beautiful offices with an abundance of natural light. We promote a friendly, non-corporate environment at our HQ; we are passionate and hard-working and enjoy socialising both in and out of the office.

We are the women of Sahara. We are unconstrained. Our adventurous spirit leads us beyond the High Street to destinations lesser known. For clothes that mean more. That add to the story of our lives. We are unique. Try and pin us down, it doesn’t work. Label us and it won’t stick. We believe that demographics divide, age is just a state of mind and body type is what each one of us sees in the mirror.

We are leaders. Visionaries in our own right. Creative, passionate - and only ever underestimated once.