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Trend Forecaster/Designer Jobs in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia at Showpo
Title: Trend Forecaster/Designer
Company: Showpo
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
About Us:
Showpo is the Australian owned, global, social media led ecommerce brand, redefining fashion retail for the new generation.
Showpo was established in Sydney in 2010 from our Founder & CEO Jane Lu’s garage. Forward to now, we have disrupted the traditional retail model, are a global fashion destination and one of Australia’s home grown true global success stories. We pride ourselves on empowering women worldwide and being one of Australia’s largest and most successful social media brands.
2023 was a hugely successful year for us and 2024 is looking to be even better! Sound interesting? Read on…
Are you an expert in shopper behaviour, retail trends, business strategy, and the future of online commerce? Showpo is seeking a visionary trend strategist to lead and inspire within the women’s trend market, translating global market shifts into actionable, innovative product strategies. Join us as a thought leader, creating world-class content and driving the success of our dynamic teams.
Day to day, you will:
Research and create solution-driven moodboards & other content, showing a clear understanding of the Showpo brand. This includes the seasonal forecast themes, colour, materials, key items, fabrics, prints, including collection names. Ensure forecast reports are at a world-class standard, delivering information in a concise, informative and inspirational manner.
Identify key influences, drivers and innovations, that will impact and shape the future of the Showpo brand. Looking at society, technology, environment, industry and creativity. Communicate these findings with an understanding of their future impacts within internal presentations.
Collaborating beyond the product team. Working with the broader team such as marketing and ecommerce teams. Collaborate with the team to further shape and understand the impact of these shifts.
Mentor and lead product team members as well as the broader team. Set best practice examples within the team and collaborate with colleagues to ensure a high standard is achieved.
Deliver presentations that are informative and engaging. Be able to demonstrate a thorough understanding of the womenswear trends, shifts within the industry as well as challenges the fashion industry could be facing.
Ensuring diversity and inclusivity is represented within Showpo. Researching and self-educating on product innovations and topics within fashion industry that relate to diversity and inclusivity.
Responsible for organising the set up the Monthly Sell The Dream Presentation with the Product Team. Creation of document and collation of product to review with the product and marketing team.
Responsible for selection of product for EDMs to help pre plan for what to be shot in Campaign, Ghost and Ecomm images.
Be the conduit between Product and Marketing/Ecommerce to ensure that the vision for the trend boards are executed to a high standard from Product to Marketing to Ecommerce.
Assist the marketing team with product knowledge such as product Features & Benefits for any marketing assets
Responsible for organising the review of VM edits onsite including Trending and Occasion with the Product Team.
Responsible for creation of the onsite edits for our monthly collection trend/campaign launches.
Attend a weekly Ecomm Styling Sign Off
Attend an seasonal Ecomm Winter Styling Mood Board Direction Sign Off
Who are we looking for?
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