Freelance, Lee Men's Tops Designer (Greensboro, NC)

Who We Are:

Kontoor Brands is a portfolio of three of the world’s most iconic lifestyle, outdoor and workwear brands: Wrangler®, Lee® and Helly Hansen®. Kontoor Brands is a purpose-led organization focused on leveraging its global platform, strategic sourcing model and best-in-class supply chain to drive brand growth and deliver long- term value for its stakeholders.

Job Posting:

Freelance, Lee Men's Design (Greensboro, NC)

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing tops styles - sketching, coming up with ideas, details, new silhouettes
• Selecting new fabric for tops
• Pulling pattern inspiration for plaids
• Assorting the plaids/patterns into the shirt styles
• Assorting color into styles
• Sketching hand off pages/ detail call outs
• Meeting with tech - walking them through the detail callouts
• Lab dips color comments, h/l comments, wash panel comments - entering comments into charts
• Power point files for Milestone meeting presentations (creating our “line sheets”)
• Pinning boards for comp review
• Trim development - buttons, labels, embroideries, patches (adobe illustrator)
• Organizing samples & racks
• Need to have an "eye for color", experience building collections, experience with prints and plaids.
• Educational/Position Requirements:
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in fashion or apparel design

Special Physical and/or Mental Requirements:

• This person will be required to be onsite at our HQ in Greensboro, NC.
• This position will be a full-time freelance role at 40 hours a week.

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Why Kontoor Brands?

At Kontoor, we offer a comprehensive benefit package to fit your lifestyle. Our benefits are crafted with the same care as our products.

When our employees are healthy, secure, and well, they bring their best selves to work. Kontoor Brands supports you with a competitive benefits program that provides choice and flexibility to meet your and your family’s needs – now and in the future. We offer resources to support your physical, emotional, social, and financial wellbeing, plus benefits like discounts on our apparel. Kontoor Brands also provides four weeks of Paid Parental Leave to eligible employees who are new parents, Flexible Fridays, and Tuition Reimbursement.

We are proud to offer a workplace culture centered on equitable opportunities and a sense of belonging for all team members. Here we have a global workforce of high-performing teams that both unlocks our individual uniqueness and harnesses our collaborative talents.