Job Description

As a Junior Designer you will be responsible for assisting the Product Designer. We are looking for a talented individual with a passion for women’s fashion and products/assortment. You will be doing technical sketching, designing women’s underwear across multi product categories, assist in fittings and handling the design part of sample follow up. Together with the rest of the team, you will assist in developing the collections sold globally in all the H&M markets omni channels. This requires high energy, strong independent drive, creativity, and a new perspective.

An amazing opportunity to develop from your current individual design level, whilst learning from our global team. You will contribute with updated fashion insights for our target customer with your fresh ideas, energy, creativity, and fully global perspective. High pace and rapid changes are a natural part of our day. This is a large range with many articles, so being a quick learner with good communication skills, a flexible attitude and capacity to adapt to changes, is essential!

Qualifications

We believe you have a genuine passion for Women’s fashion both from a commercial & aspirational standpoint with a feminine handwriting and an eye for details. In addition to this we are also looking for:

• A minimum of a BA/MA or equivalent experience in Fashion/Textile Design
• A minimum of 1-2 years’ work experience as a JR Designer/Assistant
• Strong skills in Illustrator
• Attention to detail and good material knowledge is key
• Experience with putting together specs and technical files is essential
• Fashion eye with a visionary mindset & true passion for Women’s fashion, current and future trends
• Handwriting in your portfolio should have a delicate, feminine & romantic aesthetic
• A strong customer focus and commercial mindset
• Strong communication skills and true team player
• A highly organized and structured work routine
• Capacity to work in a fast-paced and everchanging work environment
• A fast learner with a strong self-drive and you can take own initiatives with ease
• 3D CLO work experience is meriting
• Fluent in English (Swedish not necessary)

Additional Information

This position is based in Stockholm, to start in August 2024. You will report to the department Assortment Designer.

If your experience, skills, and ambitions are right for this role, please send your application by Monday 1st July including CV and relevant portfolio work (pdf max 10mb/uploading) Portfolio should include vision/mood boards, full design process and final collections and products from a variety of fashion design projects. All documents should be in English. Please ensure to include some work clearly relatable to the aspirational H&M Women’s target customer. Applications must include portfolio and meeting the above criteria to be considered! We would like see work that shows your creative aspirational side and also your sense for commercial fashion.

For any internal applicants please have a dialogue with your current manager before applying.

Benefits

We offer all our employees at H&M Group attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a staff discount card, usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. Brands covered by the discount are H&M (Beauty and Move included), COS, Weekday, Monki, H&M HOME, & Other Stories, ARKET, Afound. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.

In addition to our global benefits, all our local markets offer different competitive perks and benefits. Please note that they may differ between employment type and countries.

Inclusion & Diversity

H&M is a part of H&M Group. At H&M Group, we’re determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation. Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge, experience, and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process.

We strive to have a fair and equal process and therefore kindly ask you not to attach a cover letter in your application as they often contain information that easily can trigger unintentional biases.

Company Description

H&M is a fashion brand that offers the latest styles and inspiration, from fashion pieces and unique designer collaborations to affordable wardrobe essentials. Our business idea is fashion & quality at the best price in a sustainable way. Learn more about H & M here.