Senior Editor Womenswear (12-month FTC)

The role

We are looking to hire a Senior Editor Womenswear to join our Content team in either London or South Africa on a 12-month fixed-term, maternity cover basis.

Working at WGSN

Together, we create tomorrow

A career with WGSN is fast-paced, exciting and full of opportunities to grow and develop. We're a team of consumer and design trend forecasters, content creators, designers, data analysts, advisory consultants and much more, united by a common goal: to create tomorrow.

WGSN's trusted consumer and design forecasts power outstanding product design, enabling our customers to create a better future. Our services cover consumer insights, beauty, consumer tech, fashion, interiors, lifestyle, food and drink forecasting, data analytics and expert advisory. If you are an expert in your field, we want to hear from you.

Role overview

We're looking for a Senior Womenswear Specialist who has proven experience to join our Content team as a Maternity Leave cover on a fixed-term contract for 12-months. The role can be based out of the following locations – London or South Africa.

You will be required to write industry reports as they relate to the global commercial fashion market. With an innate understanding of Womenswear, you will be articulate in written English and visual communication. Being highly skilled in interpreting the womenswear market, you are sought out internally and externally, as a trusted industry expert. As a Senior Strategist you will contribute to and manage projects, providing direction in your area of expertise by building and maintaining strong, and global cross-department relationships. You will feed into your department’s global content strategy and supervise content creation from more junior members of the team.

You will have a strong knowledge of women’s fashion trends, new product development and sustainability, and have an understanding of the role data and analytics plays in commercial success. You will produce reports identifying product opportunities for WGSN’s design and buying clients at an item and category level using a combination of image research and WGSN’s proprietary data sets across ecommerce and social media.

You will have had a fashion design or buying education within womenswear apparel and be able to take that knowledge and use it to comment confidently on the implications of apparel trends across multiple product categories.

This role sits at a level that is equivalent to an in-brand senior womenswear designer.

The team

You will be part of a dynamic and high performing womenswear team made up of very talented people who have one goal in common - to be the proudest WGSN brand ambassadors.

Key accountabilities

This list is not exhaustive and there may be other activities you are required to deliver.

Skills, experience & qualifications required

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What we offer

Our benefits and wellbeing package offers flexible benefits you can tailor to your own personal needs, including:

More about WGSN

WGSN is the global authority on consumer trend forecasting.

We help brands around the world create the right products at the right time for tomorrow’s consumer.

Our culture

An inclusive culture is one of our key priorities. We want our people to truly be themselves and thrive. We love having a diverse team of people who bring new ideas, different strengths and perspectives & reflect the global audience we work with.

Why choose us?

At Ascential, diversity, equity and inclusion is core to us. We’re a company built around our people - and we’re committed to supporting each and every one of them to be the best they can be. We love having a diverse team of people who bring new ideas and different strengths and perspectives to Ascential. Our employee-led networks, Ascential Pride, Black in Business and EmPower: An Ascential Women's Initiative, help us to create a place where communities and allies can connect and share experiences. In addition, our Early Talent programmes help grow and foster diverse new talent for our sectors.

We are committed to supporting the environment and sustainability, including ensuring our pension plan defaults to sustainable options and striving to be net zero by 2030.

Recognising great performance is a key part of our culture. Our Awards schemes recognise and reward the brilliant achievements of our people.

We have a truly flexible working environment with a wide range of flexible, hybrid and agile-working arrangements. Conversations about flexible working have always been - and will continue to be - actively encouraged here.

We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable during the process, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.

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