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Senior Designer - LAB Collaborations & Sponsorships– Tommy Hilfiger
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, TOMMY HILFIGER, Van Heusen, IZOD, ARROW, Warner’s, Olga and Geoffrey Beene brands, as well as the digital-centric intimates brand. True&Co. 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.
The Team
The Runway & Collaborations business unit is a dynamic division dedicated to creating exciting collaborations, sponsorships and partnerships with external partners ranging such as sports teams, fashion brands and celebrity ambassadors. This business unit also creates elevated tier one collections and runway shows that represent the pinnacle expression of the brand’s identity. Based in the Amsterdam European HQ, the division is split into sub teams: Design, Sourcing & Development and Merchandising & Sales. These teams work together to create brand moments that build brand awareness, credibility and drive desire for the entire TH brand.
The Position
The Senior Designer for LAB - Collaborations & Sponsorships, is responsible for designing and executing styles across multiple product categories and projects. The primary focus lies on long term sports sponsorships and collaborations with external partners, brands and ABO’s.
The Senior Designer has a deep understanding of multi product and works closely with the Design Director and design team to create commercially viable products that embody the Tommy Hilfiger brand identity across all collaborative projects.
The ideal candidate demonstrates exceptional taste, drive and confidence, complemented by a contemporary hand writing and an ability to simultaneously design across diverse projects and categories.
A thorough knowledge of the premium and luxury market segments is essential, along with a strong awareness of sponsorships and collaborations within fashion brands. An intuitive ability to integrate relevant trends, silhouettes and fabrications into the collections whilst ensuring the Tommy Hilfiger DNA is consistently reflected is essential.
The Senior Designer will partner with other members of the Design team as well as Product Development, Fit and Merchandising, to create strong cohesive collections and capsules aligning across product groups with clear story telling reflecting season concept ideas.
Key Responsibilities:
Source and present creative research as well as identifying trends that work within the Tommy Hilfiger brand strategy, translating these into products in line with the seasonal concept direction and partnerships strategy.
Design across multiple product categories with confidence and a luxury handwriting as well as an understanding of the brand DNA.
Use Illustrator or hand sketching to confidently communicate design ideas and create detailed CAD sketches, overviews and colour ups.
Prepare all sketches (2D & 3D) for divisional digital presentations and follow up of each style. Create garment worksheets and prepare PLM to send to factories.
Work closely with Tech and Product Development teams on garment fittings, based on block systems and new seasonal complex styles. Ensure all styles are to the highest possible standard and help find solutions to any problems that may come up during the fitting process
Close working and communication on challenges and changes that arise during the development of styles. Supports and partners with the Product Developer to execute each style to ensure a smooth work flow each season.
Attend and participate at key milestones such as sketch and proto review and style outs.
Partnering with sourcing teams about sourcing qualities, washes, trims and details.
Responsible to follow up on selected sourcing and fabrics each season with the Product Developer and Fabric Manager.
Work closely with the Design Team to align design aesthetics, seasonal details and creative big ideas
Work to multiple overlapping calendar deadlines.
The Ideal Candidate:
Fashion Design graduated at a degree level or equivalent
5-6 years of fashion design work experience ideally within the mid to luxury market segment.
Work experience from brand collaborations, sponsorships and special projects is a plus.
A Multi Product Designer with experience across product categories and genders.
Excellent computer skills (Illustrator/Photoshop) & hand-drawing skills
Ability to translate trends into commercial collections with a contemporary handwriting.
High level fabric knowledge across categories, plus a strong technical understanding of fits and constructions.
Strong understanding of sourcing qualities, washes, trims and details that fit in the Tommy Hilfiger aesthetic.
Thrives in a fast paced ever changing environment with a hands-on mentality.
Proactive approach to the work place, able to support and adapt to the needs of the team.
Highly organized and can work on multiple seasons and projects simultaneously.
Available to travel for supplier visits
A dedicated driven team player with great communication skills.
Business English fluency (both written and verbal)
What You Can Expect from Us:
A company culture that fosters development, offering training and learning opportunities through our very own PVH University
An international environment which respects diversity, equality, and individuality
A monthly home-office budget
A smart work program that empowers our associates to work within a flexible schedule
A beautiful state-of-the-art Campus awaiting you upon your start
Please include your updated design portfolio with your application: the portfolio should include work from a variety of relevant projects. We would love to see your designs aesthetic and work process 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.
