Assistant Print Designer F&F Essentials - Part Time / 6 Month Fixed Term Contract

We’re looking for a creative and passionate Assistant Print Designer to join our F&F Essentials team. This is an exciting opportunity for an aspiring designer who thrives on spotting the latest design and social trends and bringing them to life through original, hand‑illustrated prints.

In this role, you’ll be at the heart of our underwear and nightwear ranges across ladies lingerie, kidswear, and menswear. You’ll use your creativity to design prints that resonate with our customers, while also contributing to colour forecasting and spec creation. We’re looking for someone who is proactive, inquisitive, and confident in challenging ideas to push projects forward.

This is a chance to grow your career in print design, working in a team that values innovation, collaboration, and a strong product eye.

You will be responsible for:

• Providing design, product development and sampling support to keep the team running smoothly.

• Proactive communications with the buying and design teams, creating awareness of emerging trends and colours.

• Conducting customer and competitor research to inform your designs, create reports to share within design team meetings.

• Contributing to the department's design direction, being proactive in identifying core lines, key statements and colours to drive sales.

• Understanding best and worst lines to influence seasonal strategy and product opportunities.

• Designing balanced ranges understanding range principles.

• Supporting the delivery of 'must haves' and seasonal/trend products for our customer.

• Resolving day to day operational issues/queries, escalating where appropriate.

• Assisting your manager by designing the correct number of options to meet the needs of the department.

• Playing your role in delivering the design component of the F&F critical path.

You will need:

• Creative design

• Photoshop/ Illustrator

• Hand Illustration experience

• Relevant CAD design programmes

• Surface pattern/ illustration design

• Research

• Appreciation of range planning process

• Appreciation of product development

• MS office tools

What's in it for you:

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!

Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary
Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

About us:

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.

NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.

We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please visit https://www.tesco-careers.com/accessibility