Soft Goods Design Manager (clothing, interiors & bedding, soft toys & gifts)
Design - Soft Goods
Huddersfield (Head Office)
Overview
At Mamas & Papas, we believe while parents come in many different forms, every parent wants to fully embrace the miracle of having a baby and be a great parent. Our Purpose is to inspire and support parents in becoming the best parents they can be: confident, capable, and loving life with their little ones.
This purpose puts families at the heart of everything we do, where our Mamas & Papas products are made to make life easier, providing comfort, quality & safety in every detail through trend-led designs, whilst minimizing our environmental impact for current and future generations.
Through a real growth spurt as a business, both UK and Internationally, we are looking to recruit a SOFT GOODS DESIGN MANAGER to join our Design Team.
Role of SOFT GOODS DESIGN MANAGER:
Reporting into our Head of Soft Goods, this Design Manager role will look to manage, develop and inspire a design team (of x1 Senior Designer, x4 Designers and a Print & Pattern Designer) across newborn, baby & infant clothing, plus soft good interiors & bedding, soft toys & gifts.
Key responsibilities include:
1. Develop and implement successful Global & Local design strategies that will resonate and delight the customer, crafting a unique and illustrative handwriting through inspirational collections, products, and storytelling prints.
2. Work collaboratively across Buying/Development and Merchandise Teams in delivering your design strategies, ensuring all design deadlines are met in accordance with agreed cross-functional critical paths.
3. Guard and protect the Brand DNA through the design process, ensuring a consistent brand language across all product categories, overseeing the design creation process and ensuring we are developing original products and prints.
4. Budget & plan all buying, inspiration, trend & competitor trips for the team and support them in gathering comprehensive research to support colour, trend, fabric, trim and product direction.
5. Personally contribute to design projects, taking the team's design concepts to the next level through your design experience.
6. Put families at the heart of everything we do by delivering upon our Purpose through the soft goods we design and bring to life.
To Apply:
If you are either a design manager within clothing, looking to continue your passion for clothing product & design, for one of the most iconic baby brands, or a senior clothing designer, having managed designers, looking to take your passion for design to that next level, then simply take those amazing first steps and APPLY TODAY>>>>
PLEASE NOTE:
(1) Due to anticipated interest in this rare opportunity, we will be needing to review your design portfolio as part of the CV shortlisting process. Therefore, please attach a portfolio to your application (whether PDF, or a downloadable link, or webpage details).
(2) This is a permanent full-time, not freelance opportunity, and will be required to be at our Huddersfield (HD5 0RH) head office, 3 days a week, (x2 from home) as part of our Hybrid working scheme.
We're a business that cares. Here's just some of our benefits on offer:
• 33 days holiday, increasing up to 40 with service.
• Buy & Sell holiday schemes
• Company Bonus Schemes
• Employer pension contribution from day 1 enrolment.
• Significant staff discounts for family & friends from our shops & online.
• Ongoing offers & discounts across a variety of external organisations, from holidays, travel, restaurants, gifts & services to many more worthy discounts through our Benefits Hub.
• Subsidised health & critical illness cover and insurances.
• Supportive family related leave policies (including company enhanced pay for maternity, IVF & Fertility, surrogacy, paternity, adoption, shared parental leave).
• Supportive Foster Care & Carers Leave offering.
• Support for Loss and Bereavement.
• A Menopause Friendly Employer.
• Employee Recognition and Appreciation Schemes.
...Oh, and a great bunch of people to work with too.
We also operate at Head Office:
• Hybrid flexi working of 3 days in the office.
• Flexi-time schemes based around core working hours whether in the office or working from home.
• Plus, free car parking, Prayer & Contemplation room, subsidised canteen, free tea & coffee, Games & TV rooms & much more.
(NB*: All benefits subject to individual schemes criteria & terms)
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