Careers
AT THE FOLD
Careers
AT THE FOLD
The Fold is an award-winning womenswear brand with a mission to empower women to realise their ambitions. The brand creates beautiful, high quality collections for women to feel their confident best. The Fold has a wide reaching international audience and has dressed some of the world’s most influential female leaders and innovators.
Join The Fold Team
We are an ambitious, supportive, passionate team who love what we do. We are Founder-led, and we lead by example –never compromising on our quality.
We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion across our business and within our teams. Creating equal opportunities for employees and applicants.
See below for the roles we are currently recruiting for:
Join The Fold Team
We are an ambitious, supportive, passionate team who love what we do. We are Founder-led, and we lead by example –never compromising on our quality. We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion across our business and within our teams. Creating equal opportunities for employees and applicants.
See below for the roles we are currently recruiting for:
We are not currently recruiting! Please keep an eye on the page for any further job opportunities with The Fold.
We are looking for:
Store Stylist
About the role:
Providing exceptional customer service and styling advice whilst demonstrating strong selling techniques, to achieve sales KPIs and build a client base.
Your responsibilities:
- Hold one on one customer appointments in store and personal styling sessions
- Build outfits / style the collection with clients
- Oversee alteration process from start to finish
- Be highly confident with one on one and personal styling appointment
- Be The Fold brand ambassador and role model for the rest of the team with selling technique / upselling
- Work alongside with the rest of the team to achieve and improve sales targets
Client base
- Build a personal client base and oversee your own clientele book by managing customer relationships and report improvements on a monthly basis
- Capture client’s preferences to tailored follow ups and information via CRM system
- Be proactive in building recognition of The Fold
- Involvement in brand events
General store tasks
- Maintain high standards on the shop floor and stockroom
- Complete the opening/closing checklist at the beginning and end of each day
- Have up to date brand and product knowledge to style the collection with customers
Support the VM specialist with VM moves to ensure they are aligned with new monthly drops - Process delivery and mid week top up to ensure current collection is replenished and up to date
- Stock management and understanding of our processes
Your skillset:
- Have previous experience of sales in store, boutique, styling or a similar environment
- Be familiar with high-end sales processes, behaviours, customers and brands
- Be passionate about styling and building customer relationships
- Be a committed energetic, motivated contributor to The Fold, going above and beyond the role with a proactive attitude to work as part of The Fold team
- Have a basic understanding of KPIs within a retail environment
- Contribute with a proactive attitude to daily tasks
- Understand the importance of styling as well as the behind the scenes/administrative aspects of the role
Benefits and perks of working with The Fold:
- Closes Sundays and bank holidays
- 25 days holidays (including bank holidays)
- Buy additional holidays
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension salary sacrifice scheme
- Access to free Financial Advisors
- Grocery scheme to help you save money
- Uniform allowance
- A friends and family discount policy with 50% off full retail price
- Enhanced maternity pay
- Summer Friday hours
- Eye care
- Fully stocked snack cupboards, fruits and coffee & tea
- Regular Social Events - including summer and Christmas parties
- Volunteering
Our Culture:
We are an ambitious, supportive, passionate team who love what we do. We are Founder-led, and we lead by example – never compromising on our quality. We strive to uphold a values based working culture with five key principle across the business:
- Be Humbitious: Be ambitious for yourself and The Fold in a humble way - don’t be a diva.
- Wrap it up with a bow on it: Be a completer finisher, be able to trust others to take on a job completely and fully, and earn that same trust yourself.
- Be Empowered: Take on responsibility, share your views confidently but kindly, feel ownership, take pride in results,
- Fold Gold Standard: Quality and professionalism, don’t just ‘let it go’, pride ourselves on attention to detail and excellence in everything we do, deliver results.
- Embrace, pace, progress and adventure: Know that to fully embrace our ambition and our challenges, this will mean stepping out of your comfort zone - get comfortable being uncomfortable.
Diversity and Inclusion:
We promote a diverse and inclusive workplace which harnesses the benefits of the diversity of our team and strives to represent the communities in which we live and work. Our vision is to establish an environment that attracts individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and talents, empowering them to contribute their best and authentic selves. We welcome and encourage applications from those who share our commitment to fostering this inclusive and authentic work culture.
To apply for this role, please send your CV to careers@thefoldlondon.com. Due to the number of applications we receive, we can only reply to those that are successful to the next stage.
Product Development Assistant
About the role:
Assist the Design team with creation of Tech Packs and technical drawings. The role will also work very closely with our Buying, Production and Garment Tech teams.
Your responsibilities:
- Assist the Design team with creating tech packs by preparing and reviewing detailed tech packs, BOMs and specifications for each product.
- Do technical drawings for new styles
- Make sure lab dips, strike offs and any relevant markers are pulled and with correct garments for product meetings
- Tidy up after product meetings; ensuring product is put away in the correct area, lab dips and strike offs are filed away
- Ensure the range line up is up to date with high quality of presentation, share the updated line up with the team
- Add colour name, fabric description and factory to the line-up
- Responsible for creating and organising design folders: colours standards, lab dips, strike offs, month by month fabric folder.
- Assist with seasonal sample, fabric archiving and stock management
- Create POs for sampling fabrics/ Assisting with raising PO’s for sampling
- Update and maintain sampling tracker
- Attend weekly photoshoot meetings
Your skillset:
- A clear understanding of the design aesthetic of The Fold
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Team player who collaborates with ease
- Strong organiser who prioritizes with ease and understand the importance of excellent time management
- Demonstrates a ‘can do’ attitude to work
- The ability to analyse problems and offer solutions
- Attention to detail is key as this is a fast-paced role, so a sharp eye is essential
- Strong MS Office skills
- Skilled in photoshop
- Experience using Adobe Illustrator
Benefits and perks of working with The Fold:
- 25 days holidays (including bank holidays)
- Buy additional holidays
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension salary sacrifice scheme
- Access to free Financial Advisors
- Grocery scheme to help you save money
- Clothing allowance
- A friends and family discount policy with 50% off full retail price
- Enhanced maternity pay
- Summer Friday hours
- Eye care
- Fully stocked snack cupboards, fruits and coffee & tea
- Regular Social Events - including summer and Christmas parties
- Volunteering
Our Culture:
We are an ambitious, supportive, passionate team who love what we do. We are Founder-led, and we lead by example – never compromising on our quality. We strive to uphold a values based working culture with five key principle across the business:
- Be Humbitious: Be ambitious for yourself and The Fold in a humble way - don’t be a diva.
- Wrap it up with a bow on it: Be a completer finisher, be able to trust others to take on a job completely and fully, and earn that same trust yourself.
- Be Empowered: Take on responsibility, share your views confidently but kindly, feel ownership, take pride in results,
- Fold Gold Standard: Quality and professionalism, don’t just ‘let it go’, pride ourselves on attention to detail and excellence in everything we do, deliver results.
- Embrace, pace, progress and adventure: Know that to fully embrace our ambition and our challenges, this will mean stepping out of your comfort zone - get comfortable being uncomfortable.
Diversity and Inclusion:
We promote a diverse and inclusive workplace which harnesses the benefits of the diversity of our team and strives to represent the communities in which we live and work. Our vision is to establish an environment that attracts individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and talents, empowering them to contribute their best and authentic selves. We welcome and encourage applications from those who share our commitment to fostering this inclusive and authentic work culture.
To apply for this role, please send your CV to careers@thefoldlondon.com. Due to the number of applications we receive, we can only reply to those that are successful to the next stage.
Design Assistant
Contract type:
FTC 1 year placement, 20 hours per week (Tuesday – Thursday)
About the role:
Work closely with the Design team to provide support through the full design process, from initial design to production. This role will provide a great insight into the workings of a design led fashion house, the roles of the different functions and the design team process.
Your responsibilities:
- Help update and maintain monthly line ups using photoshop to colour and cad up sketches
- Assist design team with creating tech packs
- Create parcels for London seamstress that include the pattern, fabric and reference sample
- Make sure lab dips, strike offs and any relevant markers are pulled and with correct garments for product meetings
- Tidy up after product meetings; ensuring product is put away in the correct area, lab dips and strike offs are filed away
- Organise the fabric rolls in atelier
- Organise design folders: colours standards, lab dips, strike offs, month by month fabric folder
- Assist with seasonal sample, fabric archiving and stock management
- Send out colour standards to factories and mills
- Assisting with flat drawings
- Sending out parcels to factories / mills
- Help prepare and set up for meetings
- Assist finding colour standards
- Design research
Your skillset:
- A clear understanding of the design aesthetic of The Fold
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Team player who collaborates with ease
- Strong organiser who prioritizes with ease and understand the importance of excellent time management
- Demonstrates a ‘can do’ attitude to work
- The ability to analyse problems and offer solutions
- Attention to detail is key as this is a fast-paced role, so a sharp eye is essential
- Strong MS Office skills
- Skilled in photoshop
- Experience using Adobe Illustrator
Benefits and perks of working with The Fold:
- 25 days holidays (including bank holidays)
- Buy additional holidays
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension salary sacrifice scheme
- Access to free Financial Advisors
- Grocery scheme to help you save money
- A friends and family discount policy with 50% off full retail price
- Enhanced maternity pay
- Summer Friday hours
- Eye care
- Fully stocked snack cupboards, fruits and coffee & tea
- Regular Social Events - including summer and Christmas parties
- Volunteering
Our Culture:
We are an ambitious, supportive, passionate team who love what we do. We are Founder-led, and we lead by example – never compromising on our quality. We strive to uphold a values based working culture with five key principle across the business:
- Be Humbitious: Be ambitious for yourself and The Fold in a humble way - don’t be a diva.
- Wrap it up with a bow on it: Be a completer finisher, be able to trust others to take on a job completely and fully, and earn that same trust yourself.
- Be Empowered: Take on responsibility, share your views confidently but kindly, feel ownership, take pride in results,
- Fold Gold Standard: Quality and professionalism, don’t just ‘let it go’, pride ourselves on attention to detail and excellence in everything we do, deliver results.
- Embrace, pace, progress and adventure: Know that to fully embrace our ambition and our challenges, this will mean stepping out of your comfort zone - get comfortable being uncomfortable.
Diversity and Inclusion:
We promote a diverse and inclusive workplace which harnesses the benefits of the diversity of our team and strives to represent the communities in which we live and work. Our vision is to establish an environment that attracts individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and talents, empowering them to contribute their best and authentic selves. We welcome and encourage applications from those who share our commitment to fostering this inclusive and authentic work culture.
To apply for this role, please send your CV to careers@thefoldlondon.com. Due to the number of applications we receive, we can only reply to those that are successful to the next stage.
Senior Merchandiser
About the role:
As Senior Merchandiser you will demonstrate strong commercial acumen, analytical ability and leadership skills, you will have a deep understanding of both market trends and internal performance data. The role is pivotal in maximizing profitability while ensuring the brand's creative vision. You will oversee sales planning and stock management and will be accountable of executing the commercial strategy.
Your responsibilities:
- Be responsible for managing and developing the team to support the business’s growth targets.
- You will support the sales growth by working across functions, to develop the seasonal department strategies - through category expansion, option planning and range planning.
- Ensures bottom up planning aligns with the overall business strategy & targets
- Manage stock and sales forecasting via WSSI. Ensuring appropriate stock levels are maintained at all times, to maximise sales potentials by channel / product type.
- Ensure stock control accuracy on Netsuite system.
- Ensures the stock is being used in the most appropriate way across the channels (Retail / E-comm / Channels works with the Retail managers on stock packages recalls
- Present weekly sales analysis with KPIs to indicate any areas of risk or opportunity & ensure appropriate actions are made.
- Build the range to present at Buy meeting using robust analysis to forecast unit buy quantities by line - taking into account catalogue planning (pagination), promotional activity, marketing activity / campaigns
- Manage POS, Sale and Terminal stock strategies to ensure maximum sell through and gross profit.
- Support Commercial Director and Marketing team to agree sales phasing, marketing activity to populate trading calendar.
- Consider impact of geographic markets, digital expansion, channel and distribution opportunities.
- Clear diagonal involvement in Ecommerce merchandising – and ensures digital data is used to help with the direction of range build and trading decisions
- Working closely with Marketing using customer insights and sales data to help drive catalogue and email communication strategy.
- As necessary, be a part of new system implementations as far as it involves merchandising and improving our ability to access and report on business information.
- Work with Design and Buying/Production to make sure brand vision, margin and delivery targets are achieved.
- Managing the continuity range and in stock targets
- Drive efficiencies through process improvement and leads strategic projects to continuously improve the merchandise function
Benefits and perks of working with The Fold:
- 25 days holidays (including bank holidays)
- Buy additional holidays
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Pension salary sacrifice scheme
- Access to free Financial Advisors
- Grocery scheme to help you save money
- Clothing allowance
- A friends and family discount policy with 50% off full retail price
- Enhanced maternity pay
- Summer Friday hours
- Eye care
- Fully stocked snack cupboards, fruits and coffee & tea
- Regular Social Events - including summer and Christmas parties
- Volunteering
Our Culture:
We are an ambitious, supportive, passionate team who love what we do. We are Founder-led, and we lead by example – never compromising on our quality. We strive to uphold a values based working culture with five key principle across the business:
- Be Humbitious: Be ambitious for yourself and The Fold in a humble way - don’t be a diva.
- Wrap it up with a bow on it: Be a completer finisher, be able to trust others to take on a job completely and fully, and earn that same trust yourself.
- Be Empowered: Take on responsibility, share your views confidently but kindly, feel ownership, take pride in results,
- Fold Gold Standard: Quality and professionalism, don’t just ‘let it go’, pride ourselves on attention to detail and excellence in everything we do, deliver results.
- Embrace, pace, progress and adventure: Know that to fully embrace our ambition and our challenges, this will mean stepping out of your comfort zone - get comfortable being uncomfortable.
Diversity and Inclusion:
We promote a diverse and inclusive workplace which harnesses the benefits of the diversity of our team and strives to represent the communities in which we live and work. Our vision is to establish an environment that attracts individuals from a wide range of backgrounds and talents, empowering them to contribute their best and authentic selves. We welcome and encourage applications from those who share our commitment to fostering this inclusive and authentic work culture.
To apply for this role, please send your CV to careers@thefoldlondon.com. Due to the number of applications we receive, we can only reply to those that are successful to the next stage.