Senior Men’s & Ladies License Nightwear Designer – Hybrid (TGN5253) – Exc[...]

Location: Staffordshire

Type: Permanent

Industry: Ladieswear and Menswear

Job Ref: TGN5253

The Company:

Are you creative and eager for a new opportunity? This is a unique opportunity to join a thriving company, offering excellent potential to drive your career forwards. My client is the UK’s market leading manufacturer of character nightwear. They offer day/nightwear, loungewear, and swimwear design to the UK’s largest high street retailers and online companies.

They are looking to recruit a Senior Ladies & Men’s Licensed Nightwear Designer to nurture and grow with the company.

Hybrid working: 2 days in the office, 3 at home.

The Role:

• Carry out trend and competitor research, creating mood boards and regular shopping reports.
• Work independently and collaboratively with designers.
• Create detailed tech packs to send to factories, maintaining regular contact with factory partners to ensure clear understanding and smooth production.
• Work on a range of licensed character Ladies/ Men’s Nightwear.
• Prioritise work and meet deadlines.
• Identify trends in fabrics, colours, prints, and shapes, developing them into new collections covering a wide range of licensed products.
• See concept designs through to production, working closely with buyers and factories to ensure the brief is met.
• Collaborate with technologists and merchandisers to ensure products fit and find solutions to any production problems.
• Attend customer meetings.
• Design to customer briefs and amend based on buyers’ requests.
• Create exclusive designs, being mindful of cost and factory restrictions.
• Have a thorough understanding of the current market and conduct research on retailers.
• Manage day-to-day workload to ensure deadlines are met for samples and designs.
• Develop new products with factories from research, requesting new fabrics, embellishments, and techniques.
• Engage in reasonable travel, including regular comparative shopping in the UK and overseas.
• Work on our biggest retail accounts, taking on a high level of responsibility.
• Work closely with licensed style guides, creating strong bespoke AOPs.

Skills Required:

• Experience in Licensed Apparel.
• BA in fashion design or similar, with industry experience.
• Strong Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop skills.
• Strong presentation, communication, and organisation skills.
• Ability to work well individually and successfully as part of a team.
• Confident and passionate about design.
• Creative and on-trend adaptable handwriting ability.
• Experience in factory and customer-facing roles.
• Strong fabric and print knowledge.
• Ability to adapt handwriting to meet different customer requirements.