We have a fantastic new senior design role for a long established fashion company!
Are you creative and eager for a new opportunity. This is a unique opportunity to join a thriving company, offering excellent potential to drive your career forwards. The UK’s market leading manufacturer of character nightwear. They offer day/nightwear, loungewear, and swimwear design to the UK’s largest high street retailers and online companies.
They are looking to recruit an senior designer to nurture and grow with the company.
Responsibilities:
· Carry out trend and competitor research, creating mood boards and regular shopping reports
· Working independently and with designers
· Creating detailed tech packs to send to factories, regular contact with factory partners to ensure clear understanding and smooth production
· Working on a range of licensed character Ladies/ Men’s Nightwear
· Prioritise work and meet deadlines
· Identify trend in fabrics, colours, print and shapes, developing into new collections, covering a wide range of licensed product
· See concept designs through to production, working closely with buyers and factories to ensure the brief is met.
· Work closely with technologists and merchandisers, to ensure products fit and find solutions to any problems in production.
· Attending customer meetings
· Design to customer briefs and amend as buyers requests.
· Creating exclusive designs, with awareness of cost and factory restrictions.
· Thorough understanding of the current market and research of retailers.
· Managing day to day work load to ensure deadlines are met for samples and designs.
· Develop new products with the factories from research, requesting new fabrics, embellishments and techniques.
· Reasonable travel, regular comparative shopping in the UK and overseas.
· Working on our biggest retail accounts, being able to take on a high level of responsibility
· Working closely with licensed style guides, creating strong bespoke AOP’s
Requirements:
· Experience in Licensed Apparel
* BA in fashion design or similar, industry experience
* Strong adobe illustrator & photoshop skills
* Strong presentation, communication and organisation skills
* Ability to work well individually and successfully as part of a team
* Confident and passionate about design
* Creative and on trend adaptable Handwriting ability
* Experience in factory and customer facing roles
* Strong fabric and print knowledge
* Ability to adapt Handwriting to meet different customer requirements
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