Monsoon Designer (12 months FTC)

MONSOON; London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the fashion sector is seeking a Casual-Wear Designer to create vibrant, original clothing ranges. This role involves trend analysis, fabric sourcing, and managing the design process for a key product line, contributing to the company's creative vision and business objectives.

Benefits

25 days holiday

Private Healthcare

Life assurance

Staff discount up to 50%

Flexible working approach

Qualifications

• 2 - 3 years denim expertise.
• Passionate about casual daywear and delivering the best for the business.
• Ability to deliver to tight timescales.

Responsibilities

• Trend research and sourcing for seasonal casual trends.
• Create unique designs and oversee production of samples.
• Ensure timely delivery of samples and adherence to the critical path.

Skills

Creativity

Technical design ability

Trend analysis

Communication

Fabric sourcing

Education

Fashion BA Hons or equivalent qualification

Tools

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Job description

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Client:

MONSOON

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Posted:

08.07.2025

Expiry Date:

22.08.2025

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Job Description:

Hours / Duration:

Full time, 37.5 hours per week

Our story began with one man and his vision; to bring vibrant, colourful, hand-crafted artisan clothes from faraway places to the markets of London. It is a journey that started on a hippy commune in Ibiza, 1970, and finished with an overland trip east, through Afghanistan and India. Now found in West London, we’re creating vibrant products, and sharing endless discovery.

We’re looking for a Casual-WearDesigner to report into the Design Manager.Your role will involvedeveloping and designing original ranges in line with overall Monsoonbrand strategy, handwriting and business objectives.

You will be creating unique and beautiful designed embroideries and emblishments alongside key denim and linen ranges that underpin the casual collection incuding the categories of casual wovens, casual jersey, linen, denim and outerwear.

What will you do as a Casual-Wear Designer?

Trend research and Sourcing – work closing with head of design to Identify and create seasonal casual trends for the Monsoon Accessorize brand including key fashion shapes, fabrication, prints, embroideries, colours for the season.

Ability to plan and range build to deliver a diverse yet cohesive collection.

Contribute to new reference material, including industry knowledge and research for the department to use throughout the season.

Protect and ensure identified trends and key items are completed through to sign off stage.

Create unique, in-house collections which deliver newness and commerciality.

Compile strong reference material, including researching, catwalk and comp shop trends, industry feedback etc to support mood boards and colour palettes.

Producing / creating design specs and embroidery layouts. To create beautiful first samples/liase with factories/supply base to produce best in class for dept./attention to detail.

Responsible for the day to running of dept/self, to ensure samples arrive in time and are executed to the desired level. Ensuring all deadlines are met. And cp is followed.

work with buying and merchandising teams to engineer garments into price architecture.

Ownership of the casual category to deliver new balanced collections for the department.

Technical skills and finesse to translate brand values through beautiful embroideries and embellishments.

Fabric sourcing. Innovation into price points. Continue to source and push boundaries on fabric innovation/yarn dyes and plains.

Passionate about casual daywear and delivering the best for the business.

International travel may be required

Critical Path Management

Responsible for critical path planning of design time for casual category

Where required assist in the planning of the Critical Path for product areas, ensuring effective communication with suppliers and relevant team member

Meet deadlines and the critical path

People and Talent Management

Motivate and inspire print department to support development on the occasion dept

Health and Safety

Ensure a safe working environment by complying with Health and Safety Guidelines and take action to deal with any issues

What will you need to succeed as our Senior Designer?

Hold a Fashion BA Hons or equivalent qualification

Established Designer with creative and technical ability to design casual end-use collections

2 - 3 years denim expertise

Passionate and enthusiastic to drive best for the dept.

Have a desire to continue to learn and developing self and skill set

Ambitious to be part of a dynamic and creative team to define the brand and occasion category.

Self-motivated with an ability to work under own initiative

Strong communicator with the ability to influence and persuade, and build strong working relationships

Ability to deliver to tight timescales and work under pressure.

A good eye for casual product, both soft and structured, with a good understanding of embroidery and embellishments.

good understanding of casual jersey products.

Fabric sourcing ability and good technical skills to develop beautiful products and first samples.

Confident in presenting collections/concepts and pitching ideas across the team.

Confident and versatile people skills to influence and persuade wider team to vision.

Ability to demonstrate and understanding of ‘brand handwriting’

Has a passion for trend and fashion forward casual products alongside a love of heritage Indian handwriting.

CAD Skills- Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator

Quick and accurate ability to hand sketch designs, attention to detail.

What will we offer you in return?

Competitive salary

25days holiday with the option to purchase additional holiday through our salary sacrifice scheme

Bonus day holidayeach year after 6 months service

A pension that you will be automatically be enrolled in after 3 months

Private Healthcare

Life assurance (subject to participating in the pension scheme)

A flexible working approach

Early pay day Friday finish

A generous staff discount with up to 50% discount on our products

Interest free season ticket loans

Additional discounts such as Westfield discount,etc

If this all sounds great and you feel you are who we are looking for, let us know and apply today.

At Monsoon Accessorize we don’t focus only on what we do, we also care about how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce and an environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people and are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will also consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

We provide reasonable accommodations as needed to people with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.