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Assistant Garment Technologist - Tops
LondonHybrid
AI Summary
Assistant Garment Technologist for Mountain Warehouse's tops category, managing quality, fit, and technical suitability for women's, men's, and childrenswear with a jersey focus.
About this role
Mountain Warehouse is a rapidly growing global retailer, with over 430 stores across the UK, Ireland, Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand, alongside a strong and expanding online presence. Since our founding, we’ve built a reputation for offering high-quality outdoor products at great value, supporting customers in enjoying the outdoors wherever they are.
We have an amazing opportunity to support our growth and the technical/ sustainable product development of our Mountain Warehouse, Animal and Eastern Mountain Sports brands. The role is multi-product women’s, men’s and childrenswear with a jersey focus. The successful candidates will have oversight of a small product area.
We have an amazing opportunity to support our growth and the technical/ sustainable product development of our Mountain Warehouse, Animal and Eastern Mountain Sports brands. The role is multi-product women’s, men’s and childrenswear with a jersey focus. The successful candidates will have oversight of a small product area.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing the quality and fit for a capsule area with the support of a senior.
- Running fit meetings for your area, driving consistency and fit improvements.
- Driving innovation in product, performance, and sustainability through benchmarking and technical projects.
- Integral part of the buying team, working with the Garment Technologist to deliver technical suitability of fabric, construction, and fit.
- Managing your categories testing and AQL programme.
- Monitoring returns data to identify poor performance and deliver improvements.
- Building supplier relationships to influence quality and fit.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- At least 1 years in an assistant technologist role.
- Capable of fitting unaided.
- Experienced at testing review.
- Good data management reporting skills.
- Experience of working with offshore suppliers.
- Good influencing, negotiation, and communication skills.
- Team player capable of working under pressure to deadlines.
- Organised, methodical with great attention to detail.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Hybrid working, 3 days in London based office & 2 working from home
- Holiday allowance
- 50% staff discount & 25% for family and friends
- Pension scheme
Skills
AQL ProgrammeBenchmarkingData Management ReportingFabric Technical SuitabilityFit TestingGarment ConstructionOffshore Supplier ManagementReturns Data AnalysisSustainability Product Development
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