Assistant Jewellery Designer

Job description

Assistant Jewellery Designer
Leeds, LS5

Salary

Permanent Full Time

We are a major supplier of high quality costume jewellery to a global market and due to continuing success, growth and demand we are looking to recruit an Assistant Jewellery Designer to further enhance our dynamic team.

Join the team
We require a talented, creative individual with a commercial eye and at least 2 years’ experience in the field of jewellery design or costume jewellery design. Good drawing and sketching ability is essential along with experience of rendering designs in Photoshop and Illustrator and an understanding of costume jewellery manufacture in the Far East would be a distinct advantage but is not essential.

You must be able to produce mood boards and regular trend reports using online and competitive shop research and be expected to take initial ideas and concepts through to sample stage. You will have excellent communication skills, be able to work in a team environment and to tight deadlines.

About the role
As Assistant Jewellery Designer you will support the Senior Designer to capitalise on our USP and design, create and produce market leading and innovative products that enables us to maximise sales in our chosen markets. Your other responsibilities will be to:
• Benchmark and research current / future trends, designing products for new/different/emerging markets (including charities).
• To take initial ideas & concepts all the way to sample stage.
• Attend relevant shows exhibitions and produce trend reports
• Competitor analysis including trend reports on at least 6 High Street visits annually.
• Support in the design delivery of innovative and commercial products and charity projects in line with trend reports & sales feedback.

About us
Buckley London specialises in costume and fashion jewellery, and has an enviable track record of generating profitable revenues in their chosen markets. We have ambitious plans to grow the business significantly, and will have doubled our revenue, and trebled our profits by 2017.

We have identified key markets from which we will achieve this growth, developed a robust strategic plan to underpin and maximise the known potential and are investing in personnel to help realise our growth ambitions.

This is an extremely exciting time to be joining our energetic, ambitious and innovative organisation, so if you can demonstrate the necessary skills for this role, click ‘apply’ today. You must be eligible to work in the UK.

People/skills that would be suitable for this role include: Jewellery Designer, Costume Jewellery Design, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Mood Boards, Trend Reports, Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS, SEO, wireframing, Print Production,