Designer - Soft Wovens

We are recruiting for a leading supplier working with major supermarkets and large UK retailers, who are looking for a Soft Wovens Designer across womenswear to join the team.
Based in London, this is a customer-facing role suited to a commercially driven designer with a feminine, trend-led handwriting and the confidence to present ideas clearly and persuasively to key retail accounts.
You will play a central role in delivering trend-right, highly wearable soft woven ranges that meet the needs of high-volume retail environments and align with customer briefs and trading strategies.
Main Responsibilities will include:

• Design and develop commercially focused soft woven ranges tailored to supermarket and large retail customers, aligning with briefs, target price points and volume requirements
• Present ranges, concepts and design updates to key retail customers with confidence, adapting presentation style to different stakeholders
• Translate trends into feminine, accessible product, ensuring designs are highly commercial, and suitable for large-volume production
• Maintain strong commercial awareness across bestsellers, competitor activity and retail performance to inform relevant and profitable design decisions
• Work closely with internal teams to ensure designs are delivered on time and in line with customer expectations, supporting the full product lifecycle
• Contribute to short lead development where required, ensuring speed to market while maintaining a consistent feminine aesthetic and quality

Person Specification:

• Proven experience designing soft wovens within a supplier environment, ideally working with supermarkets or large UK retailers, with a strong understanding of high-volume retail requirements
• Confident and credible in customer-facing situations, with the ability to build relationships and influence key retail partners
• A feminine, trend-aware design handwriting with the ability to interpret trends into commercially successful product
• Neat, feminine and highly considered handwriting, with excellent attention to detail across all presentation work
• Highly organised, proactive and comfortable working at pace across multiple accounts, reacting to the fast-moving nature of supermarket and large retail business
• Experience working with short lead times is advantageous

Must be able to work 5 days per week in the office.