Senior Womenswear Designer

Dobson Welch Recruitment Specialists; Slough; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Dobson Welch Recruitment Specialists is partnering with a London-based fashion business to recruit a Senior Womenswear Designer / Design Lead. The role focuses on leading design and development for a premium jersey-driven womenswear brand, with responsibility for a small team and cross-functional collaboration.

The candidate should have recent womenswear design experience in the UK, strong jersey expertise, and a proactive, flexible attitude.

Qualifications

• Womenswear design experience, UK based, with supply background or fast fashion/high street.
• Solid jersey experience with a strong portfolio.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and product development for a key womenswear brand across multiple categories.
• Oversee a small design team.
• Ensure designs meet cost targets and production timelines across markets.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including PD, buying, merchandising, licensors and suppliers.
• Source fabrics, trims and manage development with mills and factories overseas.

Skills

Womenswear design

Management experience

Jersey fabrics

Communication skills

UK work eligibility

Flexible attitude

Job description

Senior Womenswear Designer / Design lead

Location: London - Office based

Salary to £57k DOE + bens

We are working with a growing successful fashion business in London to add a Senior Womenswear Designer / Design lead to their design team of over 20 and work on a key premium womenswear brand of theirs. The brand is very much a casual Gen Z brand, mainly jersey product covering fashion and lifestyle sportswear

The role

• Leading the design and product development of a key in womenswear brand covering multi product
• Oversea a small team
• Dealing with its commercial relevance, and strong market performance.
• Managing the full design lifecycle, from initial research and concept development, final technical packs to final SMS samples. Developing cohesive product ranges across multiple categories while maintaining aesthetic and quality standards.
• Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, including product development, buying, merchandising, licensors, and international suppliers.
• Souring seasonal fabrics, trims and collaborating with far East Asian and South Asian mills, factories, and suppliers.
• Overseeing fabric, trim, and print development to deliver value-driven, on-brand collections.
• Ensuring all designs meet cost targets and production timelines across diverse global markets.
• Help present seasonal collections to buyers from the UK and Poland.

Must haves to be shortlisted

• We are looking for a Senior Womenswear Designer with some management experience s
• Womenswear Design experience must be recent ( UK experience ) and supply background or young fast fashion high street
• Solid Jersey experience and strong portfolio in hand
• First class communications skills ( verbal and written )
• Must be dynamic and have a "can do attitude" , you will be asked sometimes to work on other brands so being flexible to key
• London based ( or commutable within an hour ) and eligible to work in the UK
• The role is office based , no WFH but there is flexible working hours