Freelance Senior designer Men's Accessories

About PVH Corp.

PVH is one of the most admired fashion and lifestyle companies in the world.

We power brands that drive fashion forward for good.

Our brand portfolio includes the iconic CALVIN KLEIN and TOMMY HILFIGER. We market a variety of goods under these and other nationally and internationally known owned and licensed brands. PVH has over 40,000 associates operating in over 40 countries and $9.9 billion in annual revenues. That's the Power of Us. That´s the Power of PVH.

About Tommy Hilfiger

Tommy Hilfiger, which was acquired by PVH Corp. in 2010, is a global apparel and retail company with more than 16,000 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 $9.2 billion in 2019

Founded in 1985, Tommy Hilfiger delivers premium styling, quality and value to consumers worldwide with a brand portfolio that includes TOMMY HILFIGER and TOMMY JEANS.

Tommy Hilfiger is one of the world?s most recognized premium designer lifestyle groups and is recognized for celebrating the essence of ?classic American cool? style, featuring preppy with a twist designs.

Its focus is designing and marketing high-quality men?s tailored clothing and sportswear, women?s collection apparel and sportswear, kidswear, denim collections, underwear (including robes, sleepwear and loungewear), footwear and accessories. Through select licensees, Tommy Hilfiger offers complementary lifestyle products such as eyewear, watches, fragrance, swimwear, socks, small leather goods, home goods and luggage.

Men's Accessories. Bags, Softs Accessories, SLG'S and Belts.

What does your team do:

Design the Tommy Hilfiger Accessories line that is relevant and commercially successful, showing a clear understanding of the Tommy Hilfiger brand identity and vision. Design and develop a cohesive collection that can meet the various needs of the Global market. The team collaborate with the wider accessories design team, product development and merchandising teams to create the collection.

   Part of a dynamic creative team, the role is reporting to the design manager of men's accessories and you will work in direct collaboration with the design team.

You will be responsible for creating four seasons a year and support in all phases of the creative process.

You will liaise directly with both Product development Team and Merchandising team to ensure timings, targets, and collection plans are being respected throughout the creative process, whilst designing product with elevates and inspires our global buyers.

Role and Responsibilities:

   Development and execution of design stories working to the seasonal calendar (4 collections per year)

   Extensive fabric knowledge including leather and non-leather (PU) materials and general production techniques.

   Research seasonal/trend concepts, materials, hardware and colour stories. Collate into mood boards to present back to Design Director, VP and team

   Translating market trends and corporate briefs into the accessories aesthetic for the Tommy Hilfiger DNA

   Industry knowledge of market margins

   Prepare technical sketches for divisional presentations and sales presentations and create sample requests to the highest detail to handover at factories and vendors

   Work effectively to meet deadlines for the Divisional Calendar

   Collaborating with TH Womenswear and TH Collection divisions on the Tommy Now runway collections.

   Designing capsule collections with brand ambassadors (for example GigixTommyNow & Zandaya X Tommy collection)

   Confidence working from concept, prototype to final accessory (ownership of the product journey)

   Inspirational and market research trips (Globally)

   Submitting design specification through PLM system as well as providing necessary content for other systems

What we expect you to have:

All applicants must apply with a relevant and up to date portfolio

  Previous experience in Men's Accessories design, minimum of 5-7 years? experience

   Ability to work in creative environment, to handle pressure, to work on multiple tasks under tight deadlines yet able to provide high quality work result

  Extensive knowledge designing with Illustrator, Photoshop, Keynote and PLM

  Strong hand sketching skills with understanding of scale and perspective

   Team player, yet able to work independently when needed

   Embrace the hands on, active, problem solving, open minded, dynamic, fun and fast pace environment

   Flexible to travel

  Not a 9 to 5 mentality, especially at peak design time

  Fluent in English, excellent communication written and verbal

Please include an up to date portfolio with your application. We would love to see your aesthetic as well how you commercially design to understand why this is THE role for you!

PVH Europe and our brands, TOMMY HILFIGER and CALVIN KLEIN, are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse community of associates with a strong sense of belonging. We believe we are bettered by all forms of diversity, and take pride in working with top talent from every walk of life and corner of the world. In the spirit of inclusivity, qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, ethnicity, ability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, nationality, race, religion or sexual orientation.