New Look
Junior Technologist (Footwear/Accessories)
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Junior Technologist (Footwear/Accessories)
Junior Technologist – Styling & Product Development | New Look
New Look drives accessible style through its website, mobile app, and over 300 UK stores. As an inclusive brand, we’ve cultivated a workplace rooted in our core values: we’re customer obsessed, committed to winning together, and driven by collective responsibility.
About the Role
As a Junior Technologist, you’ll shape our product offering—ensuring quality, fit, and profitability while minimising faulty or fit-related returns. Your responsibility is to oversee your department’s workflow from first fit to delivery, reporting to the office 4 days per week.
- Develop and manage product requirements, collaborating cross-functionally with Design, Buying, Merchandising, Supply Chain, and E-Commerce.
- Source material optimally for mass production, balancing cost-savings with quality/design goals.
- Drive improvements through supplier negotiations and rigorous compliance checks.
Responsibilities
Technical & Operational
- Fit & Quality Assurance: Lead departmental fitting/grading programmes while maintaining compliance with standards.
- Product Development: Work closely with Design/Sourcing teams to refine product trials and technical specifications.
- Draft clear design briefs outlining measurements and fabric specifications.
- Analyse supply capability, strengthen quality "fit gates", and risk-assess production stages.
- Merchant Support: Oversee transition from pre-production to introduction, ensuring on-time roll-outs.
- Supplier Collaboration:
- Proactive compliance monitoring to resolve audits (including DC holds within 48 hours).
- Cost-analysis and remedy planning for poor-quality returns.
- Competitive Tracking: Monitor competitor advancements and benchmark New Look’s offering.
- Translate insights into product improvements.
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Process Improvement & Reporting
- Contribute to quality at every stage through factory visits and account production.
- Generate weekly reports on faulty returns to inform supplier interventions.
- Execute Datalink compliance audits, presenting data-backed recommendations.
- Develop and implement action plans to streamline trial processes.
People Leadership
- Mentor and coach direct reports within your technological team.
Requirements
Essential Skills
- Fit Expertise: Deep knowledge of [apparel category()] specifications, problem-solving to deliver approved designs.
- Objective Analysis: Assess failed tests and trial results critically, advising remediation.
- Grading & Sizing: Technical grasp of body measurements and sizing nuances.
- Material & Manufacturing Awareness:
- Knowing trim/fabric trade-offs for specified product types.
- Translating technical requirements into open cost plans.
- Supply Chain Insight:
- Balancing lead times vs. flexibility, flagging supplier risks.
- Initiating cost-cutting solutions through optimised layouts, production hacks, etc.
- Compliance Cognition:
- Off-the-cuff reading of package labels, verifying representing and legal adherence.
Analytical Capabilities
- Interpreting numerical trends in returns data and grading rules.
- Risk assessment of trial outcomes and supplier execution.
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Work Experience
- Prior experience of quality or technical roles in fashion/retailing.
- Ideally pre-existing link with New Look, supplying or merchandising for us.
- Candidate should have participated in fit trials, supplier quality evaluations, or audits.
Fundamental Landscape Mastery
- Competitive Landscape: Know latest advances in technical quality.
- Compliance Mindset: Agglomerate regulatory knowledge into new product questions.
Why Join Us?
- Perks Beyond Pay: Hinge on a 40% staff discount stackable with friend/relative discounts—easily utilizing brand buys.
- Welfare & Wellbeing: Virtual GP access (convenient consults growing families), comprehensive life assurance from day one.
- Conciliation: Flexible leave offers, including shared parental leave, to amplify work-life realms.
- Growth Opportunities: Promote your own inclusion and diversity—be it in your work output, incentives like paid birthdays, or accessing our commissioner pension schemes.
- Sustainability: Proud partnering with the Retail Trust and Fashion & Textile Children’s Trust.
- Career Development: Discussions about flexible patterns are incentivized—trust each other’s priorities.
- Environmental Savings: Cycle2Work subsidy for every classic Mixx or Favusrad.
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