Assistant Manager – Design

Job description
Assistant Manager – Design

MAS Fabrics – Matrix excels in product creation across Performance, Athleisure, Intimate apparel, and the Medical and Wearable tech space, collaborating with world class brands at the intersection of Fashion and Functionality.

We are looking for a highly accomplished, passionate individual to support in establishing MAS Fabrics – MATRIX, as a “One-Stop-Shop” from Design to Delivery, by leading and creating design concepts and products, in collaboration with the Business Development Teams and Design Teams of the customers to generate sales and support business growth.

Key Responsibilities:
• Formulate and develop Design and product Strategies for Potential Business Development opportunities to generate budgeted annual sales aligned to the marketing strategies.
• Develop the seasonal Material and design calendar and managing, monitoring with the team to effectively conduct timely & accurate preparation for seasonal launches
• Conducting research into customer market space, understanding customer needs / trends in the relevant markets and Conduct and evaluate consumer profiling through the use of analytics & market data, identify consumer specific trends and need in order to define material and product solutions at best pricing
• Delivering effective creative directions to design team timely to develop concepts and designs to the generate potential business opportunities achieve target annual sales via seasonal and customer focused fabric and design collections.
• Setting the guidelines and developing both digital and physical marketing materials, product stories and presentations
• Deliver effective product and design presentation to customers during visits both internally and externally
• Collaborate with other Divisions to understand product opportunities to develop right product offering timely from Matrix to drive One MAS concept
• Delivering creative direction and recommendations to design and fabric team to develop and offer the right set of seasonal fabric collection with right price to business teams
• Make recommendations to design team to design for price and manufacturing
• Forecast and communicate the design projects capacity requirements.

Qualifications and Experience:
• B.Des (Hons) Fashion design and product development
• 5 years or more experience in relevant field
• Design tools literacy – Adobe collection, Clo,Apex