The Role
The Designer plays an essential role within the Creative Design & Development Team, contributing to the evolution of our brand’s product offering.
Reporting to the Senior Design Manager or Senior Designer, you will be responsible for designing and developing innovative, consumer-focused products that reflect our Brand Style Aesthetic. Collaborating with the Collection Strategy Team, Technical Team, and Quality Team. You will be responsible for driving our product ranges forward using our product pillars designing and developing brand-enhancing, innovative products that align seamlessly with our Brand Style Aesthetic and have a consumer focused approach. You will work on creating collections that celebrate our key range attributes:
- American Heritage
- Premium Essentials
- Athletic Essentials
- Active Outdoor & Lifestyle
With a passion for design, strong market awareness, and a keen eye for detail, you will help drive the creative process forward, ensuring that each product meets the highest standards of quality, functionality, and sustainability. This role offers the opportunity to develop and showcase your creativity while contributing meaningfully to our brand’s identity.
You Will
1. Be responsible for delivering Print for two seasonal collections in line with our key range attributes.
2. Be flexible between seasonal collections and in season Print projects.
3. Understand target consumer and strategic positioning to be able to identify and execute opportunities.
4. Have a strong market awareness and in tune with competitor brands.
5. Be confident with your reference points within style, culture and muses.
6. Effectively present work in a persuasive and compelling way.
7. Work to our seasonal critical path to ensure timely completion of design packs in PLM.
8. Create accurate design packs with high level of detail and specification.
You Are
9. University educated with a degree or have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in fashion or design industry.
10. Strongly experienced within retail or brand with a proven track record at designer level with a portfolio to match.
11. Passionate about design and able to demonstrate an understanding of the Superdry handwriting and DNA.
12. Someone with a confident sense of style, trend, colour, print and pattern with a good eye for fit and attention to detail.
13. Flexible to adjust quickly to changes and deliver on deadline.
14. Articulate and confident at presenting at different stages of the design process.
15. Excellent with time management and organisational skills.
16. A team player who sets a good example.
17. A strong communicator with the ability to listen and translate.
18. Someone who thrives working in a fast-paced environment.
Working for Superdry has never been so rewarding…
19. 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, we also offer a holiday buying scheme
20. An additional day off to celebrate your Birthday
21. Family is massively important to us, so we have a broad range of family-friendly working policies in place, including enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
22. Company Pension scheme
23. All employees are covered by our Life Assurance policy whilst working at Superdry. We feel it’s important to offer protection for your family and loved ones in such a situation and to support this we offer life assurance cover which pays a lump sum equivalent either twice or four times your annual salary
24. A big staff discount – naturally. Because we know that you love to wear Superdry, you’ll benefit from a 50% discount in store and online
25. Our Head Office is home to our very own store for staff only where you can treat yourself to heavily discounted sample stock
26. A health cash plan is open to all employees.
27. Flexible working and core working hours between 10am – 4pm to help you achieve that all-important work-life balance
28. Access to onsite parking and as part of our sustainable development goals, we have a selection of electrical car parking points freely available to staff.
29. A range of learning and development materials to help you in your career and grow with us
30. We like to give back, so we allow our employees time off for volunteering work
31. A global employee assistance plan in place that you can access anytime you want - it’s free and confidential
32. You’ll also have access to a Cycle To Work Scheme
33. A range of local discounts with businesses across Gloucestershire
At Superdry, everyone has a voice and we want to hear it. We create environments where individuality can flourish and is celebrated as part of who we are as a brand. We’re incredibly proud that over 90% of our people feel strongly that they can be themselves at work.
We want to meet people with varied backgrounds because we understand that diversity of thought encourages new ideas to thrive, fuelling creativity and enabling us to do better work. We want to build a team which represents a variety of backgrounds, styles, perspectives, and skills; we hire people based on their merit and potential.
We also welcome conversations about flexible working for all roles at Superdry and will always accommodate it where possible.