Assistant Garment Technologist - Tops

Mountain Warehouse is a rapidly growing global retailer, with over 430 stores across the UK, Ireland, Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand, alongside a strong and expanding online presence. Since our founding, we’ve built a reputation for offering high-quality outdoor products at great value, supporting customers in enjoying the outdoors wherever they are.
We have an amazing opportunity to support our growth and the technical/ sustainable product development of our Mountain Warehouse, Animal and Eastern Mountain Sports brands. The role is multi-product women’s, men’s and childrenswear with a jersey focus. The successful candidates will have oversight of a small product area.

• Managing the quality and fit for a capsule area with the support of a senior.
• Running fit meetings for your area, driving consistency and fit improvements.
• Driving innovation in product, performance, and sustainability through benchmarking and technical projects.
• Integral part of the buying team, working with the Garment Technologist to deliver technical suitability of fabric, construction, and fit.
• Managing your categories testing and AQL programme.
• Monitoring returns data to identify poor performance and deliver improvements.
• Building supplier relationships to influence quality and fit.

• At least 1 years in an assistant technologist role.
• Capable of fitting unaided.
• Experienced at testing review.
• Good data management reporting skills.
• Experience of working with offshore suppliers.
• Good influencing, negotiation, and communication skills.
• Team player capable of working under pressure to deadlines.
• Organised, methodical with great attention to detail.

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Hybrid working, 3 days in London based office & 2 working from home
• Holiday allowance
• 50% staff discount & 25% for family and friends
• Pension scheme