Location: Manchester
Type: Permanent
Industry: Menswear
Job Ref: TGN5320
The Company:
Due to our continued growth, we are looking to recruit a Men’s Knitwear Designer to join a busy design team. Our client a clothing importer based in the UK supplying the UK, mainland Europe and rest of world high street retailers. Production is mostly made in South Asia & China.
The Role:
* Developing seasonal stock collections across several in-house brands.
* Working to customer briefs to present relevant collections that satisfy their style and colour direction for both UK & global contract customers.
* Creating technical packs for initial sample development and fine tuning with colourway options for production.
* Creating profiles for ordered styles on our PLMS database for orders to be raised by our merchandise department.
* Liaising with our China and Bangladesh offices, senior management, sales, garment technologists and merchandisers.
Skills Required:
* Minimum of five years’ experience in a similar men’s knitwear role.
* Strong creative design skills.
* Excellent Illustrator CAD skills.
* Strong communication and experience of working with Global suppliers.
* Sound knowledge of knitting times, yarn counts and gauges.
* Commercially aware with a good eye to adapt high street trends and colour.
* Exceptionally well organised with good attention to detail.
* Able to work as part of a team.
* CV with a current portfolio.
* Shima Seiki experience would be great but not essential.
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