Do You Have a Passion for Vintage Clothing?

Do you have a passion for vintage clothes and a desire to gain work experience in a dynamic hands-on environment? Beyond Retro offers flexible work placements throughout the year tailored to your skills and interests in a number of our departments at the Cheshire Street store. Whether your goal is to pursue a career in fashion merchandising, design, retail management, press or styling, work experience at Beyond Retro can give you a unique insider eye to these fields from the perspective of London's largest vintage store!

Currently, we are looking for the following:

Vintage Quality Controller - Full Time
Warehouse Supervisor - Full Time
Product Development Coordinator - Full Time
Warehouse Assistant - Full Time

Work Experience Positions:

Beyond Retro Design Team Work Experience
Beyond Retro Archive Internship
Intern Product Department
Intern Press Department
International Sales Representatives

Vintage Quality Controller - Full Time Position

Vintage and fashion enthusiast required for an intermediate level role working to continually improve Beyond Retro’s product offering.
The Role will involve working closely with both our pricing and product selection teams.
The successful candidate will be fully trained in all aspects of identifying and pricing vintage garments and accessories to enable them to monitor and improve the quality of our product.
This is a hands-on role, but will also require strong numeracy and IT skills, excellent organisation, some data analysis and a keen eye for detail.
You will also be required to have sound writing, research and communication skills, and be able to travel internationally throughout the year.
Tasks and Responsibilities include:

• Grading vintage product.
• Producing product and trend reports.
• Trend forecasting.
• Analysing sales data
• Analysing store returns.
• Conducting monthly in-store quality control checks and reporting feedback from managers to the product department.
• Grading and training in our international factories.

Please email your CV to careers@beyondretro.com, including a cover letter explaining why you would be suitable for the role.

Assistant Warehouse and Operations Manager

Beyond Retro, Europe’s largest Vintage Clothing retailer is now looking for a Warehouse Supervisor  to join the business. Reporting to the Operations Manager, the successful individual will assist in leading a friendly team of ten in our central London warehouse to maintain the smooth and timely fulfilment of all warehouse operations.

Responsibilities:

• Supervise the loading and unloading of containers.
• Supervise the distribution of product into storage.
• Maintaining accurate shipping logs and keeping stock control systems up to date.
• Rotating boxes in warehouse
• Overseeing the maintenance of warehouse equipment.
• Ensuring warehouse is kept clean and well organised.
• Liaising with suppliers and transport companies.
• Planning future capacity requirements..
• Ensuring compliance with and maintenance of health and safety regulations, hygiene and security in the work environment.
• Briefing and motivating the warehouse team on a daily basis and ensuring set productivity targets are met.
• Training employees
• Processing stock which involves scanning, hanging, sorting, tagging and boxing product
• Supervise the general daily running of the warehouse.
• Provides holiday / sickness cover for the Operations Manager when required.
• Fulfilling other company objectives and directions as required by the Operations Manager or Managing Director.

Desired Skills & Experience:

• Excellent communication skills
• Minimum 2 years supervisory experience in a warehouse or backstock
• An eye for  detail
• Previous Inventory Control experience
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel
• Some practical skills such as knowing your way around a tool box will be an advantage.
• Be able to operate a pallet jack.
• This is a hands on role and sometimes involves standing for long periods of time, lifting, bending and carrying.

Please send you CV and cover letter explaining why you would be suitable for the role to careers@beyondretro.com. Please include your current salary.

Product Development Coordinator – Full Time

This is an exciting and challenging position suited to someone who is keen to become involved in the expansion of the Beyond Retro brand through manufacturing and the continued development of our vintage product.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Minimum 2 years fashion manufacturing experience and an understanding of production planning.
• A back ground in fashion textiles.
• Excellent organizational skills and be highly motivated
• Strong problem solving abilities
• Experience in supervising a small team
• A firm grasp of catwalk and high street trends and ability to translate into commercial ideas for our customer.
• Good knowledge of garment construction across multi-product - men's, women's, and accessories.
• CAD skills , Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Have intermediate excel skills
• Proven experience in critical path management
• A passion for vintage clothing

Key goal: Create and manage a line of product that fulfils an on-trend product demand that we are unable to find in our vintage supply. This will be met by reworking our existing supply to make new designs.

The successful candidate will:

• Conduct independent design research.
• Create initial designs.
• Create tech packs and specs from scratch - communicating design ideas and managing all aspects of sampling stage
• See design ideas through to production, managing each sample stage - approving trims, fabrics and fits.
• Ensure the setup and implementation of quality control standards.
• Liaise with head office to ensure smooth and timely delivery of product from overseas supplier to stores.
• Liaise with stores managers and VM team to ensure product is displayed to maximise sales.
• Head small short run external manufacturing projects.
• Produce and present a monthly summary of goals and new ideas.
• Be responsible for project deadlines and production.
• Assist with research for trend and product reports.
• Be able to travel internationally throughout the year.

The role will suit someone calm and level headed with a creative drive who enjoys working in a fast paced environment.   Email your CV and a letter outlining why you would be suitable for the job to careers@beyondretro.com

Warehouse Assistant - Full Time

Beyond Retro is recruiting for a full time Warehouse Assistant to join the small dedicated team maintaining the continuous supply of product to the store.
Duties will include:

• Hanging, sorting, labelling and security tagging product
• Boxing and labelling and preparing deliveries
• Moving boxes within the warehouse to enable proper rotation of stock
• Receiving and counting stock items and recording data manually or using scanners
• Packing and unpacking items for stores/stockrooms and the warehouse
• Assisting with product deliveries including container deliveries.
• Assisting in handling store returns
• Cleaning the warehouse
• Manual work including lifting boxes, carrying and climbing ladders
• Other duties as requested by the Operations Manager or Warehouse Supervisor for the smooth running of the warehouse and production

Experience in working in a warehouse environment is preferred but not essential.
Please email your CV, salary expectation and why you would like the role to: careers@beyondretro.com

Work Experience positions

Beyond Retro Design Team Work Experience

An exciting opportunity for any fashion design students or related subjects to gain amazing
experience within our Design Team...

If you have a good knowledge of garment construction and design constraints and not afraid to get your hands dirty this could be your perfect work placment for you...

Placement would include

Reasearch, photographing garments, street style shots, assisting in Quality control checks, design ideas, updating critical path (a basic understanding of critical path is essential), general admin
duties.

• This placement is open to people on BA courses.
• Office hours are 9:00 - 5:30 Monday–Friday
• Ideally for 2 -3 days per week. Minimum of 2 days per week
• Placement duration is negotiable. Minimum of 1 Month.
• We are located just off Kingsland Road (N1) so ideal for anybody living in Shoreditch, Brick Lane, Old Street, Clerkenwell, Hackney, Dalston or Islington areas
• Transport costs within London paid for.
Currently looking for an Immediate Start
Please contact – Product Development Coordinator Jessica Spinks
with your CV and covering letter.
Jessica.spinks@beyondretro.com

Beyond Retro Archive Internship.

A brilliant opportunity for any student studying Fashion Print or Textile Print related subjects…

The Beyond Retro Archive is a renowned resource for designers and industry insiders. We sell on an international level to high street companies, luxury brands and independent designers. The current archive holds in excess of 8,000 fabric print swatches and garments on site and we are continuously expanding!

We need help preparing headed fabric swatches for our showroom, cataloguing swatches, researching trends and relevant brands, selecting styles for Archive appointments. Archive interns may also assist the Product Department with image research and product updates.

Knowledge of current trends and vintage fashion is favourable.

If you have a precise eye, a methodical mind, a passion for print and patience with scissors then this is your work experience dream come true. We are looking for someone with a neat hand.

A perfect chance to view all manner of printed vintage fabrics on a daily basis while you work!

• This placement is open to people on BA courses only.
• Office hours are 10:00 - 5:30 Monday–Friday
• Minimum of three days per week.
• Placement duration is negotiable. Minimum of 1 Month.
• We are located just off Kingsland Road (N1) so ideal for anybody living in Shoreditch, Brick Lane, Old Street, Clerkenwell, Hackney, Dalston or Islington areas
• Transport costs within London paid for.

email joseph.obrien@beyondretro.com

Experience in Beyond Retro Product Department

An exciting opportunity for any fashion students or related subjects to gain amazing experience within our Product Department...

Every item that hits the Beyond Retro stores has been directed by the Product team, to make sure that our offering is always the best quality and trend driven for our fashion forward customers. Beyond Retro prides itself on its product diversity and the thousands of exciting items that are added daily,we need help to make sure we carry this on and our product stays fresh and on trend.

If you have an eye for trends and a knowledge for vintage clothing and are not afraid to get your hands dirty this could be your perfect work placement for you...

Placement would include :

• Photographing garments, street style shots, trend reports, reviewing product, vintage and trend research, highstreet research, store visits, assisting the archive.

• Office hours are 9:00 - 5:30 Monday–Friday
• Ideally for five days per week. Minimum of three days per week
• Placement duration is negotiable, minimum of 1 month
· We are located just off Kingsland Road (N1) so ideal for anybody living in Shoreditch, Brick Lane, Old Street, Clerkenwell, Hackney, Dalston or Islington areas

START ASAP
Please email your CV to interns@beyondretro.com

Work Experience in Beyond Retro Press Department

An exciting opportunity for any fashion students or related subjects to gain amazing experience within our Press Department...

Beyond Retro have a high press profile and are regularly featured across leading fashion print, media and broadcasting channels. We are the first port of call for stylists and our busy press department is inundated with requests to wear our clothes. We need an enthusiastic, hardworking intern to help out during our busiest periods.

If you are a great communicator, have an interest & knowledge of vintage clothing and thrive on the challenge of working in a fast-paced environment, then this could be your perfect work placement for you...

Placement would include –
• Booking appointments with stylists and assisting with press loans
• Helping out with photographing outfits / possibly some writing for blog
• This placement is open to people studying Fashion or a Fashion related course
• Ideally for five days per week. Minimum of three days per week
• Placement duration is negotiable, minimum of 3 months
• We are located just off Brick Lane (E2), so ideal for anybody living in Shoreditch, Brick Lane, Old Street, Clarkenwell, Hackney,Dalston or Islington areas
please email your CV to interns@beyondretro.com

International Sales Representatives required for London based design archive.

The Beyond Retro Archive is a fashion design resource based in London. We sell vintage print swatches and garments to an international client base ranging from luxury and contemporary designers, high street brands, interior and product design. We house an expanding collection of over 6,000 swatches and garments and our researchers can view a collection of over 10,000 items weekly. The Archive has been well received at key trade shows such as Premier Vision in Paris and Indigo in New York. We work closely with leading trend forecasting companies such as WGSN and Stylesight.
We are expanding our team of international sales representatives. We require new members in various locations to develop our successful global presence as suppliers of vintage print inspiration.
The candidate will be abreast of current fashion trends, possess a passion for print and an understanding of how vintage design feeds a wide spectrum of creative development in today's industry.
The candidate will have their own active client base and Beyond Retro will provide information regarding existing clients in their location. We will provide packages of ready prepared fabric swatches and offer trend direction.
Preferred locations are America (East and West Coast), Paris, Amsterdam, Korea, Japan and Australia.
Please e-mail careers@beyondretro.com. with a covering letter and C.V. Please note that Applicants should state "BEYOND RETRO REP" and their location in the subject box or their mail may not be read.