Manager - Design - Women's Wear

Manager - Design (Women's & Girl's Inner wear)

Design

- Implement strategic direction on the seasonal concepts to ensure best in class products and right product to market fit

- Adapt the selected trends and translate into design

- Contribute to the team with winning ideas and concepts to convert into innovative & commercially viable products

- Execution of the ideal range-wise color palette with primary, highlights, contrasts and mix-match stories along with mood boards

- Work in close co-ordination with PD head and tech team to review new fits and styling of new samples

- Execution of the ideal range-wise print direction with themes and graphic directions along with mood boards

- Timely presentation of the season line/collection for the upcoming season for the respective categories

- Ensure accurate storyboards at each stage of the PD Process

- Collaborate cross functionally to convert the approved design concept into actionable products within the specified timelines

- To work in close co-ordination with the Technical Team and advise on aesthetics

- To ensure MCQs and MOQs are managed during the design process

- Liaison with the technical team and costing teams to understand costing/commercial viability of the merchandize and alter the designs as required

- Awareness of all existing available raw material stock and utilizing when appropriate

- Timely approvals and course correction during the process of design at necessary milestones as per process

- Handover of design document to vendors to ensure RFT developments

- Handover of design documents to technical team to ensure RFT developments

- Co-create with the vendor for strategic collaborations on design and materials development

- Cross-check and sign the tech-pack for all design related PLM modules

- Ensure the design team is proactively working on one schedule to meet the targeted delivery dates for each project.

- Strategic Planning

- Team Management

- Market Research and Feedback