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About the Role
Urban Outfitters is seeking an Assistant Garment Technologist for their Womenswear team. This role is integral to the product lifecycle, ensuring high standards of garment quality, fit, and functionality. You will manage technical aspects from concept to completion, collaborating with designers, buyers, and suppliers while upholding compliance, ethical standards, and commercial viability.
Responsibilities
- Manage product classes, performing technical and investigative work to ensure optimal product delivery.
- Conduct garment fittings with live models, offering technical support and problem-solving to designers and buyers.
- Ensure garments meet customer expectations for quality and fit.
- Assess fabric and construction risks for suitability to end use.
- Communicate effectively with the global supply chain and build vendor relationships.
- Onboard new factories according to Urban Outfitters' standards.
- Manage the factory base, including ethical compliance and supply chain visibility.
- Maintain department standards.
- Make commercial decisions.
- Approve and analyze test reports.
- Report on and analyze quality control and product returns.
- Deliver projects in line with business requirements.
Requirements
- Professional attitude and communication.
- Confident decision-making with a flexible approach.
- Good problem-solving mindset.
- Questioning approach to refine thinking with senior colleagues.
- Team player.
- Excellent time management.
- Positive attitude towards setbacks.
- Strong understanding of the UO customer and consumer needs.
- Ability to build strong internal relationships with technical, buying, and design teams, as well as cross-functional relationships in EU and North America offices.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Technical training and understanding of pattern cutting.
- Strong knowledge of fabric, garment construction, technical drawing, measuring, and fitting.
Skills
- Pattern cutting
- Fabric knowledge
- Garment construction
- Technical drawing
- Measuring
- Fitting
- Communication
- Problem-solving
- Time management
- Relationship building
Location
- Brick Lane
Work Type
- Full-time
Benefits
- Flexible start and finish times
- Bring your dog to work
- Employees Assistance program
- Fully equipped free gym
- On-site wellness room
- 50% discount of external gym memberships
- Private Medical Insurance
- Up to 40% off at all URBN Brands
- One paid day to volunteer or fundraise for a charity
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Structured support within the business
- Continued learning and development
About the Company
- Urban Outfitters started out as a single boutique in 1970s Philadelphia with creativity and uniqueness at its core.
- 50 years on, and over 60 stores across Europe later, we’ve become a destination for emerging design, unexpected styling, One-Of-A-Kind vintage and homeware.
- We speak to a social community of over 10 million forward-thinking individuals, bringing together a nostalgia for the past with an enthusiasm to shape the future.
- The UO community are culturally aware, they shape the music scene, they live a digitally native life and they wear style trends before anyone else.
- At our core, we empower our customers and staff to express themselves, unapologetically, living life in a way that's truly authentic to them.
- Our values are: Progressive, Creative, Inclusive, Responsible, Compassionate.
Equal Opportunity
- URBN is an Equal Opportunities Employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
- We provide equal employment opportunities regardless of age, sexual orientation, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy, marital status, religion, race, or disability.
- We base all our employment decisions on merit, job requirements and business needs.