Location: Manchester

Type: Permanent

Industry: Ladieswear

Job Ref: TGN5379

The Company:

This is a unique opportunity to join a thriving company, offering excellent potential to drive your career forward. My client is the UK’s market leading manufacturer of character nightwear. They supply to high street retailers and online companies.

They are looking to recruit a Nightwear Designer to nurture and grow with the company.

Hybrid working available

The Role:

• Carry out trend and competitor research, creating mood boards and regular shopping reports.
• Working independently and with designers
• Creating detailed tech packs to send to factories, regular contact with factory partners to ensure clear understanding and smooth production
• Working on a range of licensed character Ladies/ Men’s Nightwear
• Prioritise work and meet deadlines.
• Identify trend in fabrics, colours, print and shapes, developing into new collections, covering a wide range of licensed product.
• See concept designs through to production, working closely with buyers and factories to ensure the brief is met.
• Work closely with technologists and merchandisers, to ensure products fit and find solutions to any problems in production.
• Attending customer meetings
• Design to customer briefs and amend as buyers’ requests.
• Creating exclusive designs, with awareness of cost and factory restrictions.
• Thorough understanding of the current market and research of retailers.
• Managing day to day workload to ensure deadlines are met for samples and designs.
• Develop new products with the factories from research, requesting new fabrics, embellishments and techniques.
• Reasonable travel, regular comparative shopping in the UK and overseas.
• Working on our biggest retail accounts, being able to take on a high level of responsibility
• Working closely with licensed style guides, creating strong bespoke AOP’s

Skills Required:

• Experience in Licensed Apparel
• BA in fashion design or similar, industry experience
• Strong adobe illustrator & photoshop skills
• Creative and on trend adaptable Handwriting ability
• Experience in factory and customer facing roles.
• Ability to adapt Handwriting to meet different customer requirements.