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.
Junior Product Developer
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 - filling in BOMs and specifications for each product.
- Do technical drawings for new styles
- Raw material sourcing - updating suppliers with seasonal mood boards and directing fabric sourcing based on these
- Responsible for trim sourcing and development
- Helping to create alignment of trim standards across multiple suppliers
- Launch tech packs directly with suppliers - ensuring sampling has been arranged and correct patterns sent or requested
- Ensure all work is accurate and clear to facilitate seamless communication with manufacturers
- Help build relationships with key new suppliers
- Assisting in ordering sampling and raising sampling POs
- Provide regular updates to designers on sample progress, material developments, and production challenges.
- Update and maintain sampling and product trackers
- Helping to update product BOMs following fittings and product sign offs
Your skillset:
- Ideally have past experience developing structured dresses, tops and jackets
- 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 & 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.
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