Design Manager Womenswear
Design Manager (Womenswear) - The Company
This is an exciting opportunity to join a major supplier of apparels. They are looking for a talented and experienced Design Manager - Womenswear to lead their creative team.
Design Manager (Womenswear) - The Role
- Develop ranges and collections based on mood boards and aspiration brands of customers
- Lead the team to design trend-led products across multi product areas and across multiple accounts
- Be technically aware and guide the sampling unit on tech packs, patterns etc
- Feeding back to the rest of the team efficiently
- Show presentation and selling skills, back up ideas shown with good market information to give the customer confidence in what we are showing them is right.
- Manage the career development of the team
Design Manager (Womenswear)- The Candidate
- This position is looking for previous trend led womenswear design experience working within multi product areas
- You will have a proven track record of working in commercial mainstream high street retail ( UK/Europe)
- Strong technical knowledge is required
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment, adaptable to change and able to work under pressure.
- You will be a strong leader commanding respect within your team as well as with other stakeholders in the business
- You must also be an effective communicator & team player to step into this challenging role and be confident at building good internal and external relationships.
- Proficient on Photoshop and Illustrator.
- You will be a well organised, confident communicator, experienced in managing priorities and liaising with internal teams and external stakeholders
The role is based out of beautiful offices and showroom based just north of London.