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Senior Product Designer

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Location: Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West England, England, United Kingdom Posted: Nov 14, 2019

Job Description

Company Overview Fanatics is the global leader in licensed sports merchandise and changing the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel and jerseys. Through an innovative, tech-infused approach to making and selling fan gear in today's on-demand culture, Fanatics operates more than 300 online and offline stores, including the e-commerce business for all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA), major media brands (NBC Sports, CBS Sports, FOX Sports) and more than 200 collegiate and professional team properties, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs (Manchester United, Real Madrid, Chelsea, Manchester City). Fanatics offers the largest collection of timeless and timely merchandise whether shopping online, on your phone, in stores, in stadiums or on-site at the world's biggest sporting events. About the Team When was the last time you made an online purchase and had the excitement of your item arriving at your doorstep? At Fanatics, sports fans are our #1 priority and we are committed to delivering products in the fastest, most efficient way possible every single day. As a member of the Fanatics Operations team, you’ll be on the front-line ensuring and executing on the most cutting-edge processes to meet our fans’ needs. Whether you’re fulfilling ready-made fan orders or working in on-demand production, our world-class Operations team is dedicated to “Getting it Right.” Getting our fans the right order, at the right time, at the right cost because we have the right talent. Role Purpose: To lead the translation of commercial briefs and creative direction into compelling product designs that are on-brand & relevant for apparel and hard goods. You will support the Design Lead on product workload management and mentoring creative talent that ensures our product aesthetics are delivered to the highest level while retaining commercial viability.

Responsibilities:

    • Responsible for conceptualising and delivering against seasonal creative direction and product briefs, whilst maintaining Brand DNA and guidelines
    • Responsible for own portfolio of work, ensuring that the brand or partner DNA and seasonal strategies are implemented through all concepts and designs
    • Research and contribute in the creation of seasonal creative direction, product trend overviews, colour and mood boards
    • Deliver consumer focused product designs aligned with overall range direction, and which achieve commercial targets
    • Ensure product designs have a coherent and compelling offer, so that they seamlessly merchandise into product categories and ranges.
    • Responsible for delivering allocated designs, on time based on seasonal milestones & deadlines; from concept through to CAD work, colour overviews, creation of technical specifications and updates.
    • Push creative boundaries whilst delivering against commercial opportunities
    • Contribute towards cost saving solutions to achieve seasonal margin target whilst retaining creativity.,
    • Collaborative with the development team to ensure product aesthetics are achieved whilst delivery the RRP, cost price & margin targets.
    • Deliver product designs in a clear and concise format and present at design reviews.
    • Attend and present at key stage gate meetings, creating professional presentations to clearly portray ideas, trend research, colour and style overviews in Photoshop and/or Illustrator
    • Actively participate in prototype reviews ensuring product design integrity is maintained through to final sign-off
    • Work with Graphic Designers to create comprehensive design tech packs for factories and where appropriate present this to buyers and suppliers
    • Actively research the market and trends, looking further than immediate scope of work and produce detailed reports following each research visit.
    • Lead the creation of ‘hot market’ opportunities and produce designs with speed and agility in line with company requirements and partner expectations.
    • Liaise with the key stakeholders throughout the process to ensure the product needs of the business and the partner clients are met and executed effectively.

Knowledge and Experience:

    • Must have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in the fashion/sports apparel industry.
    • Qualification in Product Design or similar.
    • High proficiency in Photoshop & Illustrator. Some knowledge on InDesign preferred but not essential.
    • When taking design briefs, asks questions and seeks understanding first
    • Expertise in product construction & cost build.
    • Self-motivated, driven, & confident.
    • Able to work under pressure in a fast-paced work environment under short deadlines.
    • Ability to take constructive feedback on board.
    • Holds a strong creative portfolio
    • Fully coherent of both the design techniques and development processes relating to product, including a keenness to keep up-to-date with the latest print techniques.
    • Enthusiastic about design, inspiring, creative, forward-thinking and energetic
    • A good communicator, both interpersonally and within a group conveying strong brand empathy
    • Highly organised and structured in relation to your own workload
    • Confident in making design decisions and able to challenge upwards and across functions in the appropriate way if needed
Benefits: This a great opportunity to join our fast-paced, dynamic and entrepreneurial business, and these are some of the benefits you can expect as an employee. The chance to work with world leading sports clubs and brands A brand new modern office and working environment Working within a growing, fast-paced and forward-thinking business On-site free bar and pool table Birthday day off 40% staff discount Nationwide Theme Park discounts Bike to work scheme Tryouts are open at Fanatics! Our team is passionate, talented, unified, and charged with creating the fan experience of tomorrow. The ball is in your court now. Apply for this job

About Fanatics

Fanatics is an online retailer of officially licensed sports merchandise providing the ultimate shopping experience to sports fans.

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