About the Role
A unique opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Design Manager to join our Menswear design team on a Fixed Term Contract reporting into the Lead Menswear Design Manager. We are looking for an experienced designer to work alongside our mens design and jersey team. Experience working in jersey in high street brands or suppliers producing for the high street is essential. We are looking for someone with a great eye for detail and a strong creative handwriting, with a proven track record of developing commercially successful product.
Responsibilities
* Spotting the latest dress trends, communicating them with confidence and clarity to the design and buying teams along with any key leadership stakeholders, and translating these into commercial designs that our customers will love.
* Setting the print direction and working closely with a specialised dress print designer to develop original artworks that our customers will want to buy.
* Working closely with your Design, Buying, Merchandising and Technical colleagues to ensure ranges are commercial and balanced.
* Compiling accurate technical brief packs and working closely with your suppliers to achieve “first sample, right sample”.
* Ensuring sample comments are fed back to suppliers in a timely manner.
* Understanding best and worst lines to influence seasonal strategy and product opportunities.
* Pushing design constraints of costings and fashion ability forward, whilst problem-solving.
* Owning the design critical path and supporting trend, development and production critical paths to ensure business deadlines are met.
Qualifications
* Proficiency in designing using Adobe illustrator & Photoshop. Powerpoint and 3D Design (CLO) software experience is a bonus.
* Comprehensive understanding of garment construction, fabric & printing techniques.
* The ability to create detailed technical brief sheets with excellent attention to detail, to communicate your design vision clearly to your team & supply base.
* A team player with great interpersonal and communication skills, ability to build strong relationships with colleagues and to be able to collaborate.
* Amazing organisational skills. Ability to prioritise and work in a fast-paced environment.
* Ability to manage the whole design and development process from trend research and sample development through to range-building and fits.
* Proven previous experience designing Ladies dresses for the UK market.
* Excellent commercial and market awareness and innovative thinking in research.
* Proven experience producing new and innovative designs to fast-paced deadlines, with a strong hit rate.
Benefits
* Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
* Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
* Private medical insurance
* 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
* Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
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