Brand Manager
Job Title: Brand Manager
Company: Chopova Lowena Ltd
Location: London E2 6QF
Hours: 38 hours per week, Monday to Friday in our studio in East London.
Chopova Lowena is an independent luxury fashion label based in London. We are a close-knit, fast-paced team consisting of dedicated leads across our commercial, creative, and operational functions. We are looking for an experienced, highly organized leader to efficiently run our day-to-day office operations and act as the central pillar of our business, ensuring our business runs seamlessly while maintaining our strict brand standards.
The Role: Reporting directly to the Directors, you will serve as the manager of operations for Chopova Lowena UK. Your core goal is to bridge the gap between creative output, strategy, and daily execution. By taking charge of seasonal workflows, managing the in-studio team, managing all brand activities, and taking ownership of everything from special projects to studio procedures, you will enable the Directors to focus on the creative.
Key Responsibilities * Studio Operations & Workflow: Ensure that all teams are fulfilling their deliverables in line with the business calendar. Plan workflow, sampling, production and show timelines are some of the main focuses. Focus on keeping the Directors closely in the know of all departmental activities.
● Brand Guardianship & Strategy & Growth: Ensure all visual, written and team communications are perfectly aligned with our brand identity and tone of voice. Have a great understanding of the brands positioning and be able to develop a brand strategy for commercial growth. Including DTC, Wholesale, Social Media, Visual Campaigns, Marketing and Collaborations.
● Campaign & Event Management: Manage event production for all shows, events and shoots. Organize and oversee the marketing calendar, and project manage all special projects and collaborations.
● Brand Partnerships: Cultivate and maintain relationships with partners and Collaborators.
● Team Leadership & Administration: Manage our 6 person in-studio team and make sure all deliverables are achieved on time. Make sure the Directors are always communicated to and be their right hand in all brand activities. Manage general office administrative procedures overseeing the studio manager and oversee seasonal budgets. Handle foundational HR touchpoints (such as advertising job vacancies, screening applicants, and staff induction) and assist with managing interns. Plan and execute team events and team building.
● Customer Experience: Collaborate with the wider team to continually refine our customer experience including developing packaging, special in store services, thinking about customer experience strategically.
● Production: Maintain an overview of production with freelance and inhouse teams. Ensure we meet all production deadlines. Assist with any problem solving that comes up though the process.
● Store Strategy: Ensure the store events are planned out and organized within the team. And develop a retail strategy alongside the Directors which aligns with the growth goals of the brand.
● Retail Oversight & Strategy: Act as the primary point of leadership for our inaugural physical retail space, directly overseeing the future Store Manager. You will ensure tasks are effectively delegated across the retail team and collaborate to develop a strategic, year-round calendar of in-store events and brand activations.
About You (Requirements) * 3+ years of experience in an operations, studio management, or brand management role within the luxury fashion sector.
- Exceptional organisational skills with proven experience running daily operations, managing a studio team, studio schedules, and keeping multiple timelines on track.
- A meticulous eye for detail
- A deep understanding of luxury consumer behavior, PR, and brand aesthetics.
- Experience with clothing and/or similar category of production/working with factories is beneficial
- Proven experience managing cross-functional teams and acting as the central point of contact in a busy studio environment.
- Strong financial acumen with experience preparing seasonal budgets.
- A natural problem-solver who can handle administrative, HR, and production duties autonomously.
- Familiarity with Zedonk, Shopify, Photoshop, Google Suite, Figma, Trello is beneficial
- Experience booking and managing freelancers
- Strong logistical skills, with excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
- A problem solver and solution oriented individual with a ‘can-do’ attitude
- A strong team player
- Self-starter who likes to use their own initiative and takes ownership for their own
projects and tasks.
This is a great opportunity for a very organised, creative, strategic and detail-oriented individual with experience in fashion management. You should be pragmatic, solutions-orientated and enthusiastic to work as a part of a small growing brand in a creative environment.
To apply please send your CV, cover letter and salary expectations to careers@chopovalowena.com.