Junior Technologist - Footwear​/Accessories

Junior Technologist - Footwear/Accessories

London, UK

Posted Tuesday 9 June 2026 at 01:00

We’re the feel-good fashion brand making style accessible and fun for over 55 years, on our website, mobile app and over 300 stores in the UK.

By living our values - we play to win, customer obsessed, we are one and it starts with me - we deliver That New Look Feeling for our customers and each other.

To develop and manage a product offer that meets customer requirements for quality and fit, maximising sales and profit opportunities while minimising faulty and fit returns. As a Junior Technologist you will be responsible for managing your own department from first fit through to delivery.

This role requires you to be in the office 4 days a week.

• 40% staff discount plus friends & family discounts throughout the year
• Access to our reward platform for external discount and offers
• Virtual GP access for you and your children – it allows you to speak to a doctor at a time and date that suits you
• All employees are covered by our life assurance policy from day one
• Unlock extra leave with our buy more holiday scheme.
• Celebrate YOU! Enjoy an extra paid day off on your birthday each year
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, and shared parental leave.
• Spread the cost of your commute with interest‑free season ticket loans
• Do your bit for the environment and save money with our Cycle2
  
  Work scheme
• We’re proud to partner with the Retail Trust and Fashion & Textile Children’s Trust

• Take responsibility for fitting and sealing of a department
• Maintaining departmental quality, fit, testing and grading standards to uphold manual compliance with support from your manager
• Working with design and supply base to develop product briefs, providing accurate measurement and fabric requirements
• Risk assess product and supplier capabilities to ensure correct quality standards are achievable
• Manage the product development process from first fit through to production, liaising with design, buying, merchandising, suppliers, franchise, international, supply chain and E‑Commerce as required
• Understand product construction and suitability for mass production
• Understand how to adapt product to minimise costs
• Negotiate effectively with suppliers to achieve desired quality and fit objectives
• Ensure full understanding of packaging and labeling requirements to ensure consistency of brand and quality
• Conducting regular New Look store visits to identify faults and action improvements
• Monitor the market, identifying competitor advances in quality/ fit, and highlight to managers
• Monitor and manage weekly faulty returns using weekly reports and highlight to suppliers and BMD
• Review supplier compliance in a commercial manner to resolve DC on holds within 48 hours of ‘Supplier Compliance Authorisation’
• Manage test reports through ‘Datalink’
• Completes factory/ testing laboratory/ distribution centre trips in line with departmental needs
• Providing reporting on quality and fit at department level in order to identify which areas to focus improvements with support from your manager
• To be responsible for the motivation and development of direct reports in your department

• Good understanding of fit requirements for product area and ability to communicate clearly the relevant changes required to achieve an approved fit and required quality
• Ability to put together a comprehensive and clear design brief outlining measurements and fabric requirements
• Good understanding of product testing with the ability to review failed results commercially in line with the product
• An understanding of grading and sizing
• Understanding of fabric and trim requirements to ensure suitability for product type
• Understanding of open costings
• Understanding of supply chain issues, for example: lead times/ flexibility/ supplier capability
• Start to understand factory processes to identify potential issues and cost saving opportunities (lay planning/ construction/ line flow/ etc)
• K nowledge of the current competitive market place to identify relevant product developments in quality and fit
• Understanding of labelling, packaging and presentation…