Job description
24 Seven is partnering with a top global sportswear client to help them find a Senior Color Designer for this hybrid position. This is a 9-month contract with high likelihood to extend or convert to a fulltime salaried position. While on contract, you'd be eligible for benefits including medical, dental, vision, sick time, and 401K.Ideal Candidate: will have a bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of direct experience.
Responsibilities:
- The nature of the work is focused on the appearance of product, communications, or collateral materials.
- Collaborates with design, product marketing, development and material consultants to focus color solutions for market success.
- Reviews all samples to achieve marketable solution review with design, marketing and development.
- Clearly communicates all changes for final confirmation.
- Displays advanced knowledge and practices in all phases of product execution - shares knowledge with others.
- Maintains color calendar/timelines/deadlines for category/division resulting in the timely completion of each product.
- Develops line art, color design server, GPIN, merchandising line, cutting samples & working with material consultant to coordinate materials for products.
- Finalizes product details and proactively follows through on execution of color on each product.
- Color Solutions - Creates innovative, retailable color solutions for category or gender-specific line.
- Researches and delivers color, Color Solutions - Creates innovative, retailable color solutions for category or gender-specific line.
- Researches and delivers color, design, market and lifestyle trends that influence and impact the product category process from product briefing to product concept to samples.
- Explores options and proposes with Color Design Managers and/or senior Color Designers a seasonal color strategy for products, line segments and initiatives.
- Creates seasonal category-specific direction of color, materials and graphics. In partnership with the Category and Design Director, creates and leads color merchandising strategies and stories seasonally.
- Consumer Research - Knows the consumer.
- Displays in-depth understanding of consumer, brand-positioning needs as it relates to category/division. of consumer, brand-positioning needs as it relates to category/division.
- Utilizes knowledge of category/division consumer & their culture to improve product performance & appearance.
- Demonstrates strong knowledge about competitor products, consumer retail habits, color, and market trends.
- Applies insights from consumer perspective into color solutions.
- Presentations & Communication - Presents and communicates category- specific color direction and color merchandising direction of the seasonal line to appropriate groups.
- Works with design/category to produce presentation materials that effectively communicate color direction related to the consumer, product concepts and creative strategy to internal audiences.
- Participates and delivers bi-annual category/divisional specific color needs for incorporation into footwear color committee preparation.
- Together with Color Design Manager, advances the value of color to the brand by bringing a high level of functional expertise (i.e. materials, special effects, technology, advanced development, presentation, tools) to the color design organization.
- Educates and mentors more junior designers in category or color design organization.
- Undertakes projects and opportunities to enhance knowledge of the business, color, and design.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree
- Minimum of 5 years directly relevant work experience
- We need someone who is great at storytelling, attention to detail, creative, and has an understanding of footwear.
