Trainee Designer

Trainee Designer

Because your ideas are our style. Design, our way.

Design at Primark

Our design specialists are at the heart of crafting captivating brand experiences. Immerse yourself in the world of visual storytelling, where your creativity will shape the aesthetics of our brand. Collaborate with a team of skilled designers, and bring your artistic talent to a global stage.  

As a Trainee Designer, you will support the Designer and Buying teams in researching and designing a commercial range, including trend, colour, shape direction

You will be responsible for staying ahead of trends, continually research new ideas.

What You’ll Do as a Trainee Designer  

We want you to feel challenged and inspired. Here, you’ll develop your skills across a range of responsibilities:

• Complete daily trend research across multi platforms, delivering trend information to buying and design teams
• Adapt latest trends into the Primark handwriting, to ensure a commercial direction for the range
• Ensure research also considers new techniques/fabrics and seasonal colour direction
• Work alongside Design team to create typographically strong original graphics and prints.
• Have an awareness and interest in garment shape design and how this can be developed for Primark
• Follow design briefs to ensure focus is maintained on the provided direction in the allocated time
• Track and manage design/trend amends, ensuring they are communicated to all parties in a timely manner

What You’ll Get  

People are at the heart of what we do here, so it’s essential we provide you with the right environment to perform at your very best. Let’s talk lifestyle:    

• 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more.
• Flexible Working, opportunity for an early Friday finish, and a subsidised cafeteria.
• Because Primark is all about tailoring to you, we offer Tax Saver Tickets, fitness centre, and a subsidised cafeteria.  

What You’ll Bring   

We want every person in our organisation to feel like they’re making a key contribution. Here are some of the experiences and skills you’ll need for the role:

• 1-2 years design experience
• Innovative creative thinker and proactive and confident communication of ideas and design
• Have a strong creative portfolio
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud; Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and Excel.
• Fashion graphic design training preferred
• Ability to both hand draw and work directly onto Mac

Does this sound like you? Great, because we can’t wait to see what you’ll bring. You’ll be supported within a team of equally capable people, celebrating who you are and aiding you reach your potential. At Primark, we’re excited about our future - and we’re excited to develop yours.   

About Primark  

At Primark, people matter. They’re the beating heart of our business and the reason we’ve grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to a £9bn+ turnover business and over 80,000 colleagues and over 440 stores in 17 countries today. Our values run through everything we do. In essence, we're Caring and always strive to put people first. We're also Dynamic, bravely pushing the boundaries to stay ahead. And finally, we succeed Together.   

If you need any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request, during your recruitment journey, such as extended time or breaks between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, mobility access, or assistive technology please contact your talent acquisition specialist.  

All offers of employment are subject to background checks, including right to work, reference education and for some roles criminal, and financial checks. If you have any concerns, please reach out to our talent acquisition team to discuss.  

Our fashion isn’t one-size-fits-all and neither is our culture. Primark promotes equal employment opportunity, we strive to create an inclusive workplace where people can be themselves, access opportunities and thrive together.