Men’s Knitwear Designer (TGN5320) – Excellent Salary DOE

Tagged Resources; Manchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading clothing importer is seeking a Men’s Knitwear Designer for their design team in Manchester. The successful candidate will develop seasonal collections and work closely with global suppliers to meet customer style and direction. The role requires strong creative skills and extensive experience in knitwear design, offering a great opportunity to shape product offerings for a variety of markets.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years' experience in a similar men’s knitwear role.
• Strong communication and experience of working with Global suppliers.
• CV with a current portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Developing seasonal stock collections across several in-house brands.
• Creating technical packs for initial sample development.
• Liaising with China and Bangladesh offices and senior management.

Skills

Creative design skills

Illustrator CAD skills

Communication

Knowledge of knitting times

Attention to detail

Job description

Location: Manchester

Type: Permanent

Industry: Menswear

Job Ref: TGN5320

The Company:

Due to our continued growth, we are looking to recruit a Men’s Knitwear Designer to join a busy design team. Our client a clothing importer based in the UK supplying the UK, mainland Europe and rest of world high street retailers. Production is mostly made in South Asia & China.

The Role:

• Developing seasonal stock collections across several in-house brands.
• Working to customer briefs to present relevant collections that satisfy their style and colour direction for both UK & global contract customers.
• Creating technical packs for initial sample development and fine tuning with colourway options for production.
• Creating profiles for ordered styles on our PLMS database for orders to be raised by our merchandise department.
• Liaising with our China and Bangladesh offices, senior management, sales, garment technologists and merchandisers.

Skills Required:

• Minimum of five years’ experience in a similar men’s knitwear role.
• Strong creative design skills.
• Excellent Illustrator CAD skills.
• Strong communication and experience of working with Global suppliers.
• Sound knowledge of knitting times, yarn counts and gauges.
• Commercially aware with a good eye to adapt high street trends and colour.
• Exceptionally well organised with good attention to detail.
• Able to work as part of a team.
• CV with a current portfolio.
• Shima Seiki experience would be great but not essential.