Freelance Assistent designer Shirts

About the Company:
Tommy Hilfiger is one of the world's leading designer lifestyle brands and is internationally recognized for celebrating the essence of “classic American cool” style, featuring preppy with a twist designs.

Founded in 1985, Tommy Hilfiger delivers premium styling, quality and value to consumers worldwide under the Tommy Hilfiger and Hilfiger Denim brands, with a breadth of collections including Hilfiger Collection, Tommy Hilfiger Tailored, men's, women's and children's sportswear, denim, accessories, and footwear. In addition, the brand is licensed for a range of products, including fragrances, eyewear, watches and home furnishings. Founder Tommy Hilfiger remains the company's Principal Designer and provides leadership and direction for the design process.

Tommy Hilfiger, which was acquired by PVH Corp. in 2010, is a global apparel and retail company with more than 17,000 associates worldwide. With the support of strong global consumer recognition, Tommy Hilfiger has built an extensive distribution network in over 90 countries and more than 1,400 retail stores throughout North America, Europe, Latin America and the Asia Pacific region. Global retail sales of the Tommy Hilfiger brand were US $6.7 billion in 2014.

PVH Corp., one of the world's largest apparel companies, owns and markets the iconic Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Van Heusen, IZOD, ARROWWarner's and Olga brands. It is the world's largest shirt and neckwear company and markets a variety of goods under its own and licensed brands.

Department Description:
The MSW division consists of the following teams:
-   Design - designing and follow trends for seasonal collections. 
-   Merchandising and Sales - Responsible for the implementation of a successful product merchandising strategy that meets consumer needs and volume goals. Key contact to support all country sales teams with presenting the collection, support key account meetings and ensure effective and consistent communication between division, country sales and retail.
-   Sourcing and Development
-   Planning - Drivers of the monthly demand forecasting for the replenishment business and managing the fashion projections for wholesale.
-   Planning and Control - Act as the interface between the division, central ops and finance

Position Description and responsibilities:
As an Assistent Designer for Shirts working in the Menswear Division you will be part of the Shirts design team for designing and executing seasonal collections for the product category. The Shirts product groups exists out of casual shirting, tailored shirting and ties. You will work closely with the Designer and Sr. designer in the team, the developers from the development team, merchandise team, and the Design Director for the planning and development of the collection each season. You will report into the Designer. 

Among other you will be responsible for:
-   Assist design team in researching trends and performing market research that works into the Tommy Hilfiger Menswear brand strategy
-   Preparing all design sheets and boards for both Shirts and Ties for divisional presentations
-   Preparing all selected and confirmed styles to be computerized and design sheets completed to a high standard for sending to buying offices globally.
-   Design in both in 2D (illustrator)
-   Develop sketches and colour ups in alignment with the Global Design Brief and merchandising range plan using initial research, support and attend sketch/proto review and revise sketches based on feedback received before and during sketch/ proto review.
-   Support fittings in collaboration with Designer and Senior Designer, Technical Development and Product Development
-   Compile and maintain Shirts library by archiving Design input (e.g sketches (digital library), fabrics, samples)
-   Preparing handloom sheets
-   Design 2D fabric CADS
-   Making sure that the Tommy D.N.A. is seen in each garment.
-   Developing an understanding of fabrics to work Senior Designer and Developer for the selection of fabrics for each collection. 
-   Working to the Divisional Calendar to meet deadlines 

Requirements:

• Fashion Degree
• Excellent computer skills (Illustrator/Photoshop) & hand drawn skills. 
• Fluent in English both written and verbal as English is the working language of the company
• Is able to work in a hectic environment and has a hands on mentality
• High productivity is demanded
• Team player
• Structured and well organized
   

To be successful in this position you need to have a good understanding of the latest outerwear trends and the ability to translate them into a commercial product. It is important that you are able to work independently as well as in a team and that you also enjoy working in a busy, changeable environment. To be able to work well with other teams you need to have strong communicational skills.