Assistant Designer – Girls Apparel
Golden Touch is a family owned and operated wholesale apparel manufacturer with a mission to deliver trend focused products for nearly 50 years. They are seeking an Assistant Designer to support the Girls design team across various categories, manage sample logistics, and facilitate the CAD/Print workflow. The role involves collaborating with designers, communicating with factories, and preparing for meetings.
Responsibilities
- Support the Designers throughout the development cycle, from concept to production
- Work with sweaters, activewear, cut and sew, and wovens
- Communicate and follow up with factories and team members
- Support Designers with inspiration and trend research
- Run out to local shops for trims and fabric as needed, pickup and drop off from local sample rooms
- Sample management- Order, track, organize, steam, tag, distribute, send, receive, return, and photograph all the samples we have coming in
- Create seasonal and capsule line sheets
- Help coordinate with our CAD designer and request CADs as needed
- Create CAD boards of all ATS styles for our sales team
- Assign style numbers in PLM for our sales team when requested
- Create new requests from our fabric team and continue to follow up with them. Launching yardage, asking about sample yardage availability, etc
- Set up new PowerPoints for the team to use for research, development, and presentations
- Assist with any meeting prep
- Send styles to our costing team via PLM and create costing line sheets
- Routinely check online for new images of our products on buyer’s websites to save down for future use and reference
- Maintain sample closet and showroom samples
Skills
- 1+ years of experience at the Assistant level in the apparel industry in either showroom or sample management capacity
- Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment
- Advanced proficiency in MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PPT, Outlook, TEAMS)
- Strong foundation in Adobe Suite (mainly illustrator and acrobat, a bit of photoshop)
- Knowledge of the full life cycle of a garment
- Solid communication and interpersonal skills
- Proactive team player
- Bachelor's degree in apparel design
- Knowledge of PLM is a plus
- Fabric knowledge in both knits and wovens
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