Senior Creative Womenswear Designer
People Marketing Fashion Recruitment
- Manchester
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Must have an up to date knowledge of trends
- Responsible for developing seasonal trend reports
- Consistently pushing creative boundaries, with innovative ideas and designs
- Work collaboratively with Creative Director from concept to completion aligning on seasonal direction, timelines, and customer insights
- Responsible for driving the vision and direction of the brand, expressing this through your designs
- Contributing to cost saving solutions, whilst retaining quality and creativity.
- Sourcing, selecting, and developing fabrics, trims
- Maintaining contact with external suppliers, visiting when necessary, and ensuring they have all relevant design information to make samples
- Assisting in fit sessions and providing feedback in the form of fit comments.
- Maintain awareness of market trends influencing consumers and knowing the brand’s best-selling products in order to filter into the design process
- The ability to create tech packs/CAD’s in Adobe Illustrator with measurements and technical info for sampling and production.
- Experience in a design-led fashion role
- Strong passion and enthusiasm for fashion
- Highly creative and strong understanding of customer needs
- The ability to work in an ever-changing, fast paced environment, while meeting deadlines.
- Confident with bold ideas
- Able to work in a fast paced environment
- Able to create specs and grading knowledge is preferred, though not essential
- Ability to create original prints is preferred, though not essential
- Proficient in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator