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- Trend Direction Designer shaping seasonal trends, colour palettes, and product direction for Giant Tiger’s Fashion and Home categories. Conducting market research and guiding trend-right retail decisions.
Responsibilities
- Identify, develop, and communicate seasonal trends, colour palettes, and concept themes for Fashion and Home categories
- Research emerging consumer, product, and retail trends through market research, competitive shopping, trend forecasting, trade shows, sourcing trips, and vendor engagement
- Develop and maintain trend presentations and seasonal direction tools
- Collaborate with internal partners, vendors, and external trend resources to validate trend direction
- Improve trend and product development processes to simplify work, increase speed, and improve efficiency
- Monitor trend adoption and refine seasonal direction based on customer response and business performance
- Travel to the Ottawa Home Office, Buying Office in Laval, across North America, and overseas
Requirements
- Post-secondary education in Fashion Merchandising, Fashion Design, Business, Marketing, Retail Management, or a related field
- 3–5 years of experience in trend forecasting, product development, merchandising, buying, or a related retail role
- Experience researching and interpreting consumer, fashion, product, and retail trends
- Experience developing seasonal trend presentations, colour palettes, concept themes, or similar creative direction tools
- Experience analyzing customer, market, and competitive information
- Continuous improvement mindset with ability to simplify processes and improve efficiency
- Ability to synthesize large amounts of market and consumer information into clear recommendations
- Excellent presentation and visual communication skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel
- Experience with Adobe Creative Suite and trend forecasting platforms such as WGSN or similar
- Significant travel within North America and overseas on a monthly to quarterly basis
- Must be legally authorized to work in Canada and maintain authorization for the duration of employment
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Company-funded contribution of 6% of annual earnings to a Deferred Profit Sharing Plan for permanent, full-time employees
- Flexible, cost-shared health and dental benefits available on hire
- Annual paid time off, including personal and vacation days
- Additional paid holiday time between Christmas and New Year’s
- Coaching, training, and career development support
- Store discount
- Parental leave salary top-up
- Recognition program with monetary rewards and other perks
- Safety first environment
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