Apparel Color Designer Lead

Vor 4 Tagen


Zürich, Zürich, Schweiz BoF Careers Vollzeit

Company Overview

We are BoF Careers, a leading platform for fashion professionals. Our mission is to connect talented individuals with exciting career opportunities in the industry.

Job Description

The Senior Specialist - Apparel Color & Material Designer will play a key role in shaping the future of On's product lines through color, concept, and storytelling. This dynamic position requires collaboration with the design team to conceptualize colors and finishes that set trends and exceed market expectations.

Key Responsibilities

  • Ensure the color commerciality of our range by considering trend, color merchandising strategies, and color alignment across brand categories.
  • Ground your perspective on upcoming color trends, palette assortment, and seasonal key colors by diving into data from selling, consumer, and trend landscape.
  • Closely collaborate with the Zurich-based development team and vendor development teams on creating and handing over clear briefs and improving the color process for production.
  • Stay informed about the latest dyeing technologies possible on fabrics in the industry and challenge current dyeing standards to become more sustainable.
  • Share knowledge with the rest of the teams and exchange ideas with the help of the digital and physical color + material library.

Required Skills and Qualifications

  • Bachelor or Master degree in Apparel Design and/or Color Sciences.
  • 4+ years of working experience in the Apparel industry.
  • Focus in active and lifestyle apparel, ideally in Color and Materials Design.
  • Possess fluency in merchandising methodologies, strategies, and analysis of selling data and the role that color plays within these.
  • Have an understanding of color science processes as it relates to apparel materials, with a preference towards active and lifestyle apparel.
  • Have direct experience working with performance and lifestyle materials as it relates back to design usage and colorization limitations.
  • Possess a positive, solution-seeking mindset and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments with experience in creating systems and processes.
  • Strategic thinker with 3 years experience in supporting teams of 3 or more people.
  • Familiarity with Pantone and other color systems, design tools like Adobe Creative Suite, PLM, and selling data tools/analytics.
  • Experience in sustainability as it relates to color creation and materials.
  • Knowledge of competitor brands and distribution partners and channels.
  • Fluent in English, written and spoken; any other language would be a plus.


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