Fashion Designer at Owens & Xley Consults

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Job Title: Fashion Designer

Location: Lekki Phase I, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Role Overview

• In this role, you are to conceptualize and create designs with the Creative Director and ensure these designs are properly interpreted and represented by the production team.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Create new design ideas.
• Produce clear and detailed fashion illustrations by hand or using CAD.
• Create presentation and mood boards for edits and collections.
• Develop creative ideas at all stages of the design and development process.
• Create lines and cohesive collections from start to finish.
• Confer with clients to understand their design needs and provide feedback on presented ideas.
• Research and stay abreast with current trends.
• Select each style’s fabric, trims, materials, and colors that fit into a design plan.
• Prepare detailed job cards.
• Be responsible for consultations, approvals, design, and fittings
• Work collaboratively with team members to select seasonal themes, make edits to lines and collections, and create new concepts.
• Work collaboratively with the creative director in sourcing fabrics, trims, and other materials.
• Work closely with the creative director to create a prototype design.
• Work collaboratively with the production team to provide feedback with a clear and concise direction to execute orders properly.
• Liaise with the production manager to ensure synergy of the creative and production functions.
• Support photo shoots when required.
• Oversee the final production of designed garments.
• Perform all related tasks as assigned

Qualifications

• HND in Fashion Designing
• Certification in Design
• 5 years’ experience as a designer
• Tailoring experience is an advantage

Requirements:

• High level of professionalism
• Research skills
• Result-oriented team player with exceptional motivation and interpersonal skills.
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Good initiative, time and stress management skills
• Exceptionally creative
• Strong visualization skills.
• A keen eye for detail
• Confident and pleasant
• Knowledgeable about the current trends as it relates to the industry.

Salary Range

N150,000 – N250,000 monthly.

Application Deadline

20th April, 2021.

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the “Job Title” as the subject of the email.