Menswear Designer - Supplier- London

CVUK Group; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 40 000 - 56 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

CVUK Group is seeking a Designer for its London office to join a multi-functional team focused on design, development, and production of menswear for leading retailers.

You will design seasonal collections, research trends, and collaborate with suppliers and account teams to ensure timely delivery and high standards across fabrics, trims, and samples.

Qualifications

• Three years plus relevant experience in clothing design, particularly mens tailoring and fast fashion retailers.
• Strong proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and MS Office applications.
• Educated to degree standard.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.

Responsabilités

• Design seasonal and trend-led in-house menswear collections.
• Identify emerging trends and gaps, proposing fabrics and styling options.
• Collaborate with in-house account management to provide excellent service.
• Conduct fabric and trend research and present findings to teams and customers.
• Source fabrics and trims according to briefs and trends.
• Lead customer development days and action development samples.
• Maintain design tech packs and ensure samples meet briefs.
• Manage development critical path with suppliers and production sites.
• Liaise daily with mills, factories and customer buying teams.

Connaissances

Design proficiency

Communication skills

Organization skills

Teamwork under pressure

Formation

Degree level

Outils

Illustrator

Microsoft Office

Description du poste

Designer - Menswear

Multi-Product - Casual and Formal Wovens

A Long-established international clothing manufacturer requires a Designer for its London office to form part of a multi-functional team dedicated to the design, development and production of garments for several leading clothing retailers.

Responsibilities

• Design seasonal and trend-led in-house collections in line with customer design aesthetic
• Identify emerging trends and potential gaps in the customer product range, capitalise on gaps by proposing appropriate fabrics and styling options
• Work closely with in house account management teams to provide customer with continuous and excellent service and help the business progress
• Carry out fabric and trend research on an ongoing basis, present findings to in house teams and customer
• Extensive fabric and trim sourcing according to customer briefs and emerging trends
• Preparing and leading customer development days, actioning development samples according to brief
• Raising and updating design tech packs and checking samples against them.
• Managing development critical path, working closely with suppliers and production sites, regularly updating customer on sample progress through sample CPs and ensuring samples are delivered in time for range build and sign off meetings
• Liaising daily with mills, factories and customer buying teams, establishing close professional relationships on all sides

Skills and Requirements

• Educated to degree standard
• Three years plus relevant experience in clothing design (in particular Mens Tailoring and working with fast fashion retailers)
• Strong Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator) and Microsoft Office skills
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail.
• A confident, proactive approach capable of working effectively in a team under pressure in ademanding fast paced environment
• Ability to interact effectively with suppliers and colleagues at all levels.