Senior Womenswear Stylist - Online Studio

Job Introduction

Are you looking for a new challenge that gives you the chance to get creative and use your passion for styling? Looking for a company that wants to help further your career, as well as provide you with an exciting, inspiring and fun place to work?  

If the answer to all of these questions is ‘yes’ then you’re just the kind of person we’re looking for! 

Role Responsibility

As a Senior Womenswear Stylist, you will help implement and interpret the Selfridges creative vision through the styling and quality control of Online Shoots, ensuring that all styling is on brand and Selfridges appropriate. You will act as a senior member of the Styling team; advising and guiding Stylists and Assistants whilst overseeing styling processes. Working closely with the Styling Manager and Assistant Styling Manager in all aspects of the daily running of the studio, being a point of contact in their absence. You will maintain best practices, not only to achieve very high standards of styling and imagery but also to maintain agreed efficiencies within the studios.

As a Senior Womenswear Stylist, you will:

• Work with the Styling Manager and Assistant Styling Manager to lead all Fashion represented on selfridges.com, ensuring that the Online Stylists, Stylists Assistants and Hair Stylists work efficiently and on brand. 

• Support the Styling Management in the preparation of the day’s shoot when required including 

• Liaise with the Buying teams to ensure brand imagery is consistent with the business & brand vision. 

• Work with the Retail team to drive consistency and engage with brand training sessions. 

• Build and maintain relationships with external brands, attending training sessions, requesting guidelines, samples and additional styling pieces when necessary, to ensure that brands are represented correctly on selfridges.com 

• Carry out regular site walks to ensure all imagery on site is correct, and update relevant departments where changes are required. 

• Work alongside the Styling Manager and Assistant Styling Manager to maintain and update the Style Guides, ensuring visual quality and consistency across all imagery. 

• Maintain and encourage a positive ‘can do’ atmosphere throughout the studios which is conducive to high production levels and excellent quality of work. 

• Draw inspiration from a variety of fashion media to influence styling ideas, helping the Selfridges website remain fresh and forward thinking. 

• Lead and inspire through sharing knowledge and achievements with the photostudio team. 

• Ensuring daily production targets are met and providing regular daily updates to studio management team. 

The Ideal Candidate

This role requires a person with excellent brand knowledge and a very strong creative visual focus, as well as possessing strong organisational skills and attention to detail. 

• Extensive knowledge of designers and brands, across womenswear and menswear. 

• A real sense of runway looks and what trends are happening each season. 

• Strong fashion and brand/competitor knowledge 

• Excellent communication skills and confidence in giving direction 

• Able to work well as part of a team in a highly pressurised environment. 

• Strong fashion and styling sense, with the ability to incorporate new fashion trends. 

• Luxury Ecommerce experience. 

• Confident in decision making and ability to influence 

• Strong organisation skills, with a pro-active ‘can do’ attitude 

• Proven ability to work to tight deadlines and an exceptional eye for detail. 

• Be flexible in your approach 

About the Company

Our Creative Spirit 

We are more than a shop. We are a social space where culture and commerce collide to release an energy that we call the Selfridges spirit. We are here to make our world brighter, and everyone is welcome. 

Our Awards Cabinet 

We’re not ones to brag, but since you asked...Selfridges has won the award for The World’s Best Department Store an unprecedented four times at the IGDS awards, with an additional award for the Best Sustainability Campaign. We were also recognised as a ‘Best 25 Big Company to Work For 2020’ as awarded by The Sunday Times.

Our Future 

Since 1909 we have been at the forefront of retail and today our stores in London, Manchester and Birmingham – alongside selfridges.com and the Selfridges App – continue to redefine the way we shop and socialise. As a Selfridges team member, you will learn what it takes to consistently drive innovation, success and amazing customer experiences. 

Everyone is welcome

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive working culture, and we see this as key to our success and our working culture. Here at Selfridges, everyone is welcome - irrespective of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, age or disability, we stand by equal opportunities for all. We are diverse, we are inclusive, we are Selfridges.

The Fun Stuff  

There are lots of reasons to be excited about joining Team Selfridges – from our fantastic team member communities to volunteer days and behind-the-scenes Selfridges experiences throughout the year. 

Other benefits and rewards include:

• Generous bonus and/or commission scheme 
• Discounted gym memberships 
• Pension contributions  
• Annual travel pass and cycle to work schemes 
• Up to five paid volunteering days
• Access to a wide range of training programmes to help your career development

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