Jobs at River Island

Provide administrative support to the Womenswear Strategic Partnerships Product team. Responsibilities include raising and managing purchase orders, maintaining product information and internal systems, coordinating samples, supporting product selection meetings, resolving queries, and helping the team meet deadlines. The role requires strong organisation, attention to detail, Excel and Microsoft Office skills, prioritisation, problem-solving, and a collaborative approach in a fast-paced head office environment.

Supports commercial finance activities for Digital and Marketing, including financial modeling, rolling forecasts, budgeting, period-end reporting, management accounts, marketing spend tracking, ROI analysis, and evaluating digital investments. The role partners with finance and other teams to identify risks and opportunities, support strategy, and communicate financial insights. It is designed for a recent graduate or early-career candidate with strong numerical ability and foundational Excel skills.

Provides HR advice and coaching to managers across the employee lifecycle, including performance, conduct, engagement, policy, and process matters. Supports annual people processes, employee experience initiatives, HR data analysis, and broader People Plan projects. Builds trusted relationships with leaders, mentors People Operations Advisors, collaborates with HR centres of excellence, and promotes inclusion, wellbeing, integrity, and a performance-led culture.

Lead womenswear denim design from concept through product completion, shaping commercially successful ranges aligned with trends, brand direction, sustainability, and customer needs. Develop technically strong designs, collaborate with suppliers and cross-functional teams, analyze sales and margin targets, and mentor designers and assistant designers. Provide category direction, identify market opportunities, and support talent development across the Design team.

Lead River Island’s model and talent casting strategy across campaigns, brand moments, ecommerce, and video content. Build agency relationships, discover emerging talent, organize castings, manage bookings and logistics, negotiate rates, and oversee budgets. Use customer insight, sales performance, model analytics, and industry trends to guide commercially effective casting decisions. Collaborate with Creative, Production, Studio, Brand, and Marketing teams while promoting diversity, inclusion, and authentic representation.

Leads procurement strategy for non-merchandise and indirect spend, including supplier negotiations, commercial savings, governance, data visibility, contract management, and procurement capability building. Partners with senior stakeholders, challenges supplier arrangements, improves processes and tools, and develops the function in a fast-changing retail environment.

Lead creative-first paid social campaigns across Meta, TikTok and emerging platforms. Develop and execute paid social strategy for UK & Ireland, manage multi-million-pound budgets, run creative testing, optimise performance using data and GA4, collaborate with creative and marketing teams, and report insights to stakeholders to drive traffic, conversions and ROI.

Lead the full product design cycle for girlswear footwear, delivering trend-led, commercial ranges. Drive technical development (fit, engineering, quality), mentor design team members, collaborate with suppliers and buying, and incorporate sustainable practices to meet sales and margin targets.