- Kick start your journey into design with a career at BONDS & Hanesbrands!
- Highly creative & collaborative design environment
- Enjoy a fantastic work culture, great discounts + awesome work perks!
Design Assistant | Pyrmont, NSW
We are looking for Design Assistants to join our In-Season Design team! We are looking for an individual who wishes to build their design career with our amazing brands.
These are entry level design-based positions and will see you play a key support and administrative role across the team. We currently have opportunities across various categories and contract types.
Reporting to the Designer you will support in driving key looks, contributing to the creative direction, implementing, and executing seasonal assortment plans and design briefs. Your focus is ensuring the Hanesbrands customer is considered first, with the product ranges built around the brand aesthetic.
Tell me more about your Design Team!?
Our Design team focuses on living and breathing everything our customers adore us for! In this department you will be working at a fast pace, keeping up to date with trends, forecasting the latest and greatest products and supporting in designing high volumes of options to delight our customers. If you love to be creative and you are a colour and print enthusiast this could be the role for you!
Key responsibilities include:
- Assist with colour and textile print developments.
- Prepare work requests for new style prototypes, development packs and Tech Data sheets
- Liaise with garment technicians on work requests and follow up on sample developments
- Complete small design projects under the guidance of your Manager
- Use creative forecast services, magazines, colour authorities, websites, and market analysis to assist in providing information for trend directions, story boards and project work
- Collaborate and develop strong relationships with cross functional teams
- Prepare quality presentations and sales tools for internal range showings, sales conferences, retail range showings
Essential for your success is:
- A degree in Fashion and Textile Design or a related field - essential
- Proficient use of Adobe Illustrator/ Photoshop programs – daily use the Adobe programs mean you must be a super savvy user
- Ability to translate a brief into a design concept and an understanding of commercial considerations when designing product – this is an opportunity to learn how we do things, but you must have a strong appreciation for how to make it happen in reality
- Innovative and creative approach to design – goes without saying but we are looking for a true creative
- Inspirational team player capability – when a job needs doing, you'll make sure it gets done taking the team on the journey!
- Strong written and verbal communication talents and exceptional time management and organisational skills … without them you will be lost!
Enjoy some of our perks …
- Amazing working culture, structured training & development programs, genuine internal career pathways … love coming to work!
- Huge staff discounts! Enjoy up to 70% across all brands in the Hanes portfolio … we're talking about huge savings on Bonds, Champion, Sheridan, Bras N Things, Berlei, Jockey – and more!
- Sample sales and extended family and friends discounts
- Wellness Programs – regular free skin checks, flu shots, remedial massages, Employee Assistance Program, fresh fruit delivered on-site
- Access to awesome perks, including corporate discounts, novated car leasing, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave Program
- Monthly business updates from our CEO and Senior Leadership Team, with regular presentations from our community partners
- “Summer Fun” – take advantage of a 9 day fortnight, in addition to your leave allowance, during the summer months and make the most of the sun!
- Company-wide “Golden Yarn” Reward & Recognition Program
- Modern and relaxed office environment with sit-stand desks and a strictly casual dress-code!
- “Lunch & Learn” sessions, with topics including financial management and health & wellness
- Established and committed LEAN organization offering on-going training to all employees
- Genuine commitment to global sustainability - https://hbisustains.com/
Who are we?
Hanes Brands Australasia is home to some of Australia's most iconic brands, and we are proud to be part the US powerhouse Hanes Brands Inc, one of the world's largest manufacturer and marketer of basic apparel brands.
We have 18 brands in our portfolio, including Bonds, Champion, Berlei, Jockey, Sheridan and Bras N Things, and a number of offices across Australia and New Zealand. Our Head Office is in Kew, Melbourne; we have multiple sites in Sydney, offices in Auckland and factories in China. We're a household name delivering beautiful comfy products that Aussies just love. And with six hugely successful e-commerce sites, an extensive and rapidly growing store network, amazing and well-established wholesale partnerships and a growing international presence, the future is looking bright!
Cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace …
At Hanes Australasia we value an inclusive and diverse environment in line with our purpose of creating the fabric of a better life for our People and Planet. Our recruitment decisions are based on the key essential needs and requirements of each role, and candidates are selected based on their unique experience, strengths and characteristics. We encourage you to talk to us about how we can accommodate and provide support for employees with disability, illness, or injury, including: flexible working hours, allocating minor duties to another person, assistive technologies and additional training and support. For more information please email us at accessibility@hanes.com
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