Design Admin Assistant Nursery, Gift and Toys (Hybrid Working)

at  JoJo Maman Bebe

Your role in the JoJo story…:
Do you dream of a role where you can make meaningful contributions that finish in days well spent? If you’re ready to begin a fabulous adventure and you’re passionate about product and design, we have the perfect role for you.
At JoJo our Nursery, gift and toys team are on the lookout for a Design Admin Assistant, a role where you can support us in bringing our product strategy to life with the creation of new and exciting products to support each special milestone of a child’s development.
Assisting the Product designer with administration and CAD assistance to ensure the smooth running of design creation, sampling, and production. Specifically providing key administration support in design updates, approvals, and critical path maintenance.
An exciting role with so much variety covering all JoJo branded product development including nursery, wooden and plush toys, gifting, and accessories.
Are you a strong team player with excellent attention to detail and a can-do attitude? Do you have experience working in a similar role or are you a recent design graduate looking for your first design role? If so, then please read on.

A peek into your daily adventures::

• Assisting the product designer to produce JoJo in house design on brand and on schedule.
• Supporting the designer with 2D and 3D technical drawings
• Communicating with factories effectively to understand capabilities and opportunities and then to ensure designs are actioned, understood and critical path approval dates and development targets are met.
• Issuing specifications/ colours/ designs to factories as appropriate.
• Assisting on approvals and feedback at all stages of development to shipment
• Under the guidance of the designer ensure necessary comments are fed back to the factory and further submissions requested as necessary
• Supporting the designer to confidently develop prints and embroideries in Illustrator and Photoshop
• Updating the critical path, schedules and maintaining department excel spreadsheets
• Supporting the designer with trend research and inspiration ideas, creating trend boards each season
• Under the guidance of product designer be able to design a product to a specific brief and develop it
• Managing samples- tracking, unpacking and building product when required.
• Liaise with Product technologist to ensure products are fit for purpose, age suitable and safe for babies and children.

Skills that make you shine::

• Ability to demonstrate and use in practice, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for CAD, Print and graphics
• Proven ability to develop 2D and 3D Technical drawings
• Ability to work with and confidently recolour multi layered repeat prints.
• Highly organised with excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal and written English
• Confident working knowledge of Excel, Power Point and Word.
• Excellent working knowledge of internet based research tools e.g. blogs, Pinterest and design websites.
• Be able to multitask and work happily in a busy, whilst friendly atmosphere
• To be able to identify potential problems and make suggestions for solutions
• To be able to be proactive with ideas for range development
• Ability to be an efficient and reliable team member who can be responsible for their work load

Just to give you a taste of our culture, we’ll be looking for you to ::

• Be a Brand Ambassador.
• Act with honesty and integrity.
• Work as part of a team.
• Communication champion.
• Take ownership and be pro-active
• Problem Solver & Decision Maker

Perks and Benefits::

• Flexible working options, including hybrid working.
• Extra day of annual leave for each year you’re with us, up to 38 days.
• Want to increase your holiday allowance? Holiday buying scheme.
• Is it your birthday? Take it off and celebrate!
• Let’s celebrate JoJo doing well – non-contractual annual bonus scheme.
• Helping plan for the future - enhanced pension scheme.
• Get on the move - cycle to work scheme.
• Financial wellbeing app - pay yourself 40% of your earnt wages whenever you want.
• Saving scheme with Smart Money Cymru – You do not need to live in Wales!
• Enhanced family leave
• Specsavers voucher – Get a free sight test and contribution towards glasses (T & C’s) apply
• Enjoy fabulous social events.
• Saying thank you – employee recognition programme.
• Give back with volunteer days to support our communities.
• Prioritise your well-being with our Health and Wellbeing hub.
• We love our products! Get 40% of JoJo branded lines.
• Embrace an “It’s up to you” learning environment with ongoing training and development opportunities.
• Your furry friend doesn’t have to stay at home – our offices are dog friendly for friendly pooches.

Want to know more about JoJo?:
We make happy and helpful clothes and products that let children be children – in all their silly, messy, adventurous, noisy, imaginative joy. But we’re not just about selling products; we’re about creating a warm, community-centric environment for our employees and our customers. From over 70 locations across the UK and Ireland and a thriving e-commerce platform, we offer a meticulously designed collection of children’s clothing, toys, and essentials designed with love and care: always with children at the forefront of our mind.
As a B Corp, our commitment goes beyond commerce, we strive for a sustainable future and take pride in our responsibilities to the planet and our communities. At JoJo, every role, every task and every day is an opportunity to support, inspire and contribute to the well-being of our teams and our customers.
We embrace and openly welcome people from different cultures, perspectives and experiences to create a diverse and enriched environment. We work hard to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people, regardless of background to make sure we grow our company sustainably and with different cultural influences. By encouraging a diverse and inclusive workforce, we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and reach their full potential

Please refer the Job description for details