Junior Designer - Placement Year

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Shirebrook, Bolsover, Derbyshire, England
Entry level
Retail
The Role
As a Junior Designer at Frasers Group, you will design impactful products, work on various projects alongside commercial design professionals, and participate in trend forecasting and brand elevation. The position emphasizes teamwork, creativity, and understanding market needs while adapting to different design areas such as fashion and product design.
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Company Description

    At Frasers Group we’re rethinking retail. Through digital innovation and unique store experiences, we’re serving our consumers with the world’s best sports, premium and luxury brands globally. As a leader in the industry, we’re elevating the retail experience for our consumers through our collection of established brands, including Sports Direct, FLANNELS, USC, Frasers, and GAME.

    Job Description

    Frasers Group currently have an opportunity for multiple Junior Designers to join us at our Head Office in Shirebrook on a Placement Year.

    The Role:

    • Elevating one of the biggest sports and fashion retail groups in the UK and Europe.
    • Designing exciting and impactful product using a commercial mindset
    • Working on projects with a team of high performing commercial design professionals
    • Owning elements of the design process, and making recommendations that will support brand elevation and market growth
    • Researching, sourcing, developing and designing ranges and collections across our entire supply base
    • Attending development meetings, forecasting trends and using market knowledge to influence designs
    • Understanding brand identity and how it applies to the design and product
    • Briefing suppliers and getting involved in sampling meetings
    • Presenting insights in the Frasers way and channelling our core values

    We have roles covering the following areas:

    • Fashion and Lifestyle Design
    • Performance Sportwear Design
    • Product Design
    • Graphics / Packaging
    • Footwear

    Qualifications

    Essential Skills:

    • Working towards a degree in a relevant Fashion subject
    • Proven ability to work in a team environment
    • Commercially minded and a creative mindset
    • Flexibility to adapt to different environments 
    • Ideally experience of a role in fashion or retail
    • Ideally Adobe Suite knowledge focusing on Illustrator/Photoshop skills
    • Microsoft Office experience is essential

    Additional Information

    An opportunity like this at Frasers is for the fearless. The potential is massive, the experience unrivalled. To be able to make the most of it you need to live and breathe our principles:

    • Think without limits - Think fast, fearlessly, and take the team with you.
    • Own it and back yourself - Own the basics, own your role and own the results.
    • Be relevant - Relevant to our people, our partners and the planet.

    Top Skills

    Adobe Illustrator
    Adobe Photoshop
    The Company
    HQ: London
    14,279 Employees
    On-site Workplace
    Year Founded: 1982

    What We Do

    Frasers Group started as a small store in Maidenhead in 1982 and from there, grew to become a global powerhouse.

    We are now a collection of the world’s most iconic brands including Sports Direct, Flannels, GAME, Jack Wills, Sofa.com, Evans Cycles, USC, and Everlast.

    We believe the higher the risk, the greater the reward. We’ve never been afraid to strive forward and change the way the industry operates, diversifying our portfolio and elevating stores.

    We’re pushing the boundaries of traditional retail environments; future-proofing our business and improving product access to create a shopping environment that will be fit for purpose for many more years to come.

    We’re not sitting back – there’s no room for hesitation.

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