Senior Fashion Designer

Our client was established in the early 2000s and are proud to be as strong as ever. Due to continued growth, they are looking for an experienced Designer to come in and help grow the womenswear team even further. The ideal candidate will have a background in designing Wovens and/or Outerwear.

This company owns its own factories with accounts including River Island, Next, Zara and some supermarkets

Job Description

Monthly market research of customers assortment & report to overseas offices

Catwalk analysis and Trend report preparation for specified categories

Trend shopping locally and overseas

Prepare direction for seasonal yarn trends and coordinate with sourcing teams

Send reports to all customers & factories

Develop tech packs with specs for seasonal in-house collection

Select colours & yarns for the companies in-house collection

Create cads for factory development

Overseas travel to Bangladesh and China to follow up your development

Create in-season STYLE FLASH reports & send to relevant customers

Maintain seasonal showroom and set up by customer to maximise exposure

Create cads as per customers requests

Build close relationships with customers design teams to maximise potential business

Responsible to set customer meetings both UK and overseas meetings

Work closely with factories on Product development

Coordinate with in-house Product Developer and Merchandising team

Customer meetings & product presentations & recaps

Follow up customer requests with overseas offices

Support factories for order follow up when needed

Introduce new customers and develop the business with them

Promote yarns, fabrics and production capabilities

All customer coordination up to production stage

Work strategically with Senior Management to build UK office into its own profit centre

Take full ownership in growing your category

Build positive office culture with can do attitude

Lead by example

Travel required as needed

For more information contact Jodie Howell please ensure we receive 3 or 4 jpegs of work along with your application.

We regret due to a high volume of applications only successful candidates will be contacted