Fred Perry's Quality Department is looking for a Senior Garment Technologist who'll report to the Head of Quality & Sustainability, working across all men's and women's product categories and sustainability.

Key Responsibilities of the Senior Garment Technologist:

• Management of FP Better Cotton Membership. Annual target setting reflecting production projections, liaising with suppliers and monitoring BCCU collection.
• Researching and preparing the Restricted Substance Standards for both product and product packaging, ensuring legal compliance with the relevant global requirements.
• Ensuring the Product Testing Handbook remains accurate and viable with Industry and Manufacturing standards.
• Set up and maintain all Quality Manuals, including Grading, Production Tolerances, and Product Presentation.
• Guiding members of the team, and supporting their queries relating to the Manuals.
• Updating all manuals to reflect changes in the law and the addition of new products to the range.
• Maintaining the block library in collaboration with the team, researching and adapting as needs arise.
• Researching incoming European packaging legislation.
• Management of our 3 nominated Polybag suppliers across the product range.
• Reviewing, consolidating and monitoring polybag sizes across all product types.
• Facilitating regular updates with external partners, including Intertek, Better Cotton & Mainetti.
• Giving guidance to the team on recycling audit trails and certifications.
• Assisting Head of with the annual Modern Slavery statement, and business policies.
• Supporting the mapping of the Supply chain beyond Tier 1.

What Fred Perry is looking for:

• Extensive Technical knowledge of fitting, grading and construction and manufacturing across a wide range of Apparel, accessories, and Footwear.
• Thorough knowledge of lab testing, commercial impact of results and the ability to manage external Laboratory partnerships.
• Knowledge of certifications, standards and production.
• Ability to work under pressure to meet the required deadlines.
• Motivated to strive for the highest achievable quality through the implementation of the most effective process.
• Self-Driven and able to work on own initiative.
• Analytical thinking.
• Proficient with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Illustrator.

Hours

We actively encourage our teams to have a good work/life balance, and so we are pleased to offer flexible working shifts at Fred Perry HQ. Our core shift hours are from 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., so employees can choose to start and finish early or start and finish late. (i.e., work 8:00am-4:30pm, or 10:00am-6:30pm, etc.). We also have 30-minute early finishes on Fridays.

As we continue to work in a more flexible way, the head office acts as a brand hub, where we can all connect and collaborate with one another. This role is a mix of office-based (London) and remote working. We will expect the employee to come into the office regularly for face-to-face meetings and to work alongside their team on collaborative projects.

Benefits

We are proud to offer a wide range of benefits to all our staff and continue to reassess what our community needs from us to thrive. We don’t want to be a good company to work for; we want to be a great one. Here are some things we currently offer:

• Annual performance-related bonus
• Competitive salary, reviewed every year
• Generous staff discount and regular sample sales
• Generous pension scheme with 8.5% company contribution
• Option to buy an extra 5-day holiday annually
• Enhanced maternity and paternity packages
• Life insurance
• Private healthcare
• Cycle to work scheme
• Early finish Fridays
• Season ticket loan
• 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Annual birthday vouchers
• Regular opportunities to attend gigs or events