Senior Colour Forecaster (Fixed-Term)

WGSN; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading trend forecasting organization is seeking a Senior Colour Forecaster to shape global colour direction. This role involves translating cultural shifts into actionable forecasts, leading workshops, and collaborating with expert teams. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in the fashion sector and strong analytical skills. The position is based in London and offers a dynamic work environment with numerous benefits.

Benefits

25 days of holiday per year

Pension and life assurance

Flexible benefits platform

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Expertise in color forecasting for multiple industries including fashion and beauty.
• Experience in consumer insight, design, and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver global colour forecasts and seasonal palettes.
• Present colour strategies at industry events.

Skills

Proven colour experience within the fashion industry

Ability to pinpoint colour trends

Deep knowledge of consumer, fashion, and lifestyle product trends

Strong presentation skills

Outstanding communication

Job description

The role

We are looking to hire a Senior Colour Forecaster to join our Colour team in London on a fixed-term basis to cover the maternity leave of an existing employee.

This is an office-based role out of our London office.

Working at WGSN

Together, we create tomorrow

A career with WGSN is fast-paced, exciting and full of opportunities to grow and develop. We're a team of consumer and design trend forecasters, content creators, designers, data analysts, advisory consultants and much more, united by a common goal: to create tomorrow.

WGSN's trusted consumer and design forecasts power outstanding product design, enabling our customers to create a better future. Our services cover consumer insights, fashion, beauty, consumer tech, interiors, lifestyle, food and drink forecasting, data analytics and expert advisory. If you are an expert in your field, we want to hear from you.

Role overview

We're looking for a Senior Colour Forecaster to shape the future of global colour direction at WGSN. In this role, you'll translate cultural shifts, data and consumer insights into bold, actionable forecasts that inspire leading brands worldwide. Combining creativity with commercial vision, you'll oversee workshops with the global team, co-create seasonal palettes and write forecasts with authority, guiding clients and setting the global standard for colour intelligence.

The team

The WGSN colour team is a global one, with CMF members in the US, UK, APAC and LATAM. You would work closely with these members, as well as the Fashion, Interiors, Beauty, Tech Sport and Outdoor and data experts.

Key accountabilities

• Develop and deliver WGSN's global colour forecasts, seasonal palettes, and long-term strategies.
• Identify cultural, social, consumer sentiment and technological shifts influencing colour direction.
• Collaborate with regional experts to ensure global insights have local relevance.
• Collaborate with internal CMF experts to ensure palettes are informed and aligned across industries.
• Collaborate with internal catwalk teams to provide clear fashion catwalk directions.
• Collaborate with the data team to develop and interpret key metrics for colour forecasts.
• Present colour strategies to clients, industry events, and webinars with authority and impact; represent WGNS as a global thought leader in colour forecasting.
• Work with internal teams to align colour insights with client needs and brand goals.
• Partner with commercial teams to provide colour guidance to key accounts.

This list is not exhaustive and there may be other activities you are required to deliver.

Skills, experience & qualifications required

• Industry Expertise
• Proven colour experience within the fashion industry, plus knowledge of interiors, beauty, sport & outdoor or consumer tech.
• Ability to pinpoint colour trends that will impact multiple industries, products, and consumers.
• Deep knowledge of consumer, fashion, and lifestyle product trends, from macro to micro level.
• Career experience in consumer insight, design, buying, data analysis, or content creation.
• Analytical & Content Skills
• Proven experience in visual research, analysis, writing, and editing content with excellent written English and strong presentation skills.
• The ability to interpret data and qualitative information to identify patterns and future market-shaping trends.
• Collaboration & Communication
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, with experience working in international teams.
• Ability to manage personal workload, take ownership of assignments, and support team members when needed with strong relationship-building skills across content, sales, client services, and marketing teams.

What we offer

Our benefits and wellbeing package offers flexible benefits you can tailor to your own personal needs, including:

- 25 days of holiday per year - with an option to buy/ sell up to 5 days

- Pension, Life Assurance and Income Protection Flexible benefits platform with options including Private Medical, Dental Insurance & Critical Illness

- Employee assistance programme, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme

- Volunteering opportunities and charitable giving options

- Great learning and development opportunities.

More about WGSN

WGSN is the global authority on consumer trend forecasting.

We help brands around the world create the right products at the right time for tomorrow's consumer.

Our values

We Are Everywhere

The future is everything, it happens everywhere. WGSN is the world-leading forecaster because we track and analyse consumer behaviours, product innovation, design and creativity, everywhere.

We Are Future Focused

We utilise our global resources and intelligence to research, source and analyse quantitative and qualitative data to produce our forecasts. Everything we do is focused on working with our customers to create a successful and positive tomorrow.

We Are Rigorous

We source, review and assess quantitative and qualitative data to produce robust, actionable forecasts. To provide credible insights and design solutions for our clients, it is essential that rigour runs through everything we do.

Our culture

An inclusive culture is one of our key priorities. We want our people to truly be themselves and thrive. We love having a diverse team of people who bring new ideas, different strengths and perspectives & reflect the global audience we work with.

Inclusive workforce

We are committed to supporting the environment and sustainability, including ensuring our pension plan defaults to sustainable options and striving to be net zero by 2030.

Recognising great performance is a key part of our culture. Our Awards schemes recognise and reward the brilliant achievements of our people.

We offer a flexible working environment with a wide range of flexible, hybrid and agile working arrangements. Conversations about flexible working have always been-and will continue to be-actively encouraged here, but we do not offer full remote working.

We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable during the process, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.

A Note for Applicants

We use AI to help our team screen applications and identify candidates whose skills and experience match the role. This technology removes personal information to promote a fair and unbiased process. We believe this tool helps us find the best talent while maintaining transparency and fairness.

A Note for Recruiters

Thank you so much for your interest in working with us at WGSN! Our internal Talent Acquisition team takes care of all our recruitment efforts. When we need some extra help, we partner with agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL) that truly understand our business, culture and ways of working together. Since we focus on these established partnerships, we're unable to respond to unsolicited contacts or CVs from outside our PSL. But don't worry! If we decide to explore new partnerships, we'll be sure to reach out.