Senior Styling Manager

FARFETCH exists for the love of fashion. Our mission is to be the global platform for luxury fashion, connecting creators, curators and consumers. We're a positive platform for good, bringing together an incredible creative community made up by our people, our partners and our customers. This community is at the heart of our business success. We welcome differences, empower individuality and celebrate diverse skills and perspectives, creating an inclusive environment for everyone. We are FARFETCH for All.<br/>CREATIVE OPERATIONSWe're a creative family, building copy, data and visual assets for each corner of the FARFETCH Ecommerce Platform. We are dedicated to providing gold standard imagery, content and production services for our partners and creating an engaging on-site experience for our customers.<br/>PORTOOur Porto office is located in Portugal's vibrant second city, known for its history and its creative yet cozy environment. You can have an informal meeting in the treehouse or play the piano during your lunch break!<br/>THE ROLEPositioned in the Creative Development team within the wider Global Creative Operations team, the Senior Styling Manager will lead a team of styling specialists focused on delivering the e-commerce imagery strategy according to the Farfetch brand DNA. You will be responsible for global style direction, global styling toolkit, studio style editing practices and global styling training. You and your team will not be managing the stylists on set day to day, however you will be leading the strategic styling team responsible for the global styling vision alignment, driving the highest quality standard across different <a href="http://farfetch.com">farfetch.com</a> marketplace business units, and ensuring the best ways of working to be practiced across the global studios. <h3>WHAT YOU'LL DO</h3> <ul> <li>Ensuring global styling alignment to achieve the highest level of quality and consistency; by owning and leading a global styling framework of regular routines, styling rules, training and development to achieve a unified creative vision;</li><li>Providing input into tiering strategies and style guides to ensure the right brands are shot to the correct quality treatment;</li><li>Be the most senior touch point for all global styling matters including process testing and how your team connects with wider studio production teams;</li><li>Leading and navigating a team of styling specialists through frequently evolving business needs and demands;</li><li>Ensuring training and development frameworks are constantly evolving and striving for the best quality;</li><li>Culturally aware and interpret the representation of different customer personas and alignment across WW, MW and still life categories;</li><li>Set up a routine framework of styling workshops and regular communication to be led by you/your team to the production teams on a regular basis.</li></ul> <h3>WHO YOU ARE</h3> <ul> <li>Deep understanding of luxury fashion, brand alignments, styling and cultural trends, and how they are interpreted through a fast paced, high volume e-commerce photographic studio production;</li><li>Strong and resilient people manager capable of leading, motivating and developing a diverse team of senior creatives;</li><li>Strong written and verbal communicator who has the ability to influence both a creative and operational audience;</li><li>Sound knowledge of the wider end to end e-commerce photography process for best collaboration between photography and post production functions;</li><li>Ability to delegate tasks;</li><li>Highly experienced at coaching, giving and receiving feedback to develop a team to the best of their abilities;</li><li>Flexible to travel frequently;</li><li>Previous experience in fast paced luxury e-commerce studio environments;</li><li>Previous editorial experience desirable.</li></ul> <h3>REWARDS &amp; BENEFITS</h3> <ul> <li>Health insurance for the whole family, flexible working environment and well-being support and tools</li><li>Extra days off, sabbatical program and days for you to give back for the community</li><li>Training opportunities and free access to Udemy</li><li>Flexible benefits program</li><li>FARFETCH Equity plan</li></ul> <h3>EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT</h3> <ul> <li>FARFETCH is committed to being an inclusive workplace where diversity in all its forms is celebrated. We make employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition as defined by state law, physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetic information or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state or local laws or ordinances. If you require special accommodation, please let us know.</li></ul>