Junior Knitwear Designer - Menswear
Manchester
Our client is a design house and clothing importer based in Manchester supplying the UK, mainland Europe and rest of world high street retailers. We are seeking a junior Men’s Knitwear Designer to join their design team based at their head office in Manchester.
The ideal candidate will have a minimum of one year industry experience of true men’s knitwear and will be required to have a flexible and conscientious approach.
The role will involve the following:
- The focus is to work closely with the Men’s Knitwear Design Director to develop seasonal collections for priority contract customers.
- To also be involved in the development of stock collections across several in-house brands.
- Working to customer briefs to present design work that satisfies style and colour direction for both UK and global contract customers.
- Creating technical packs for initial sample development and fine tuning with colourway options for production.
- Creating profiles for ordered styles on PLMS database for orders to be raised by merchandise department.
- Liaising with China and Bangladesh offices, senior management, sales, garment technologists and merchandisers.
Requirements:
- Minimum of one year experience in a similar men’s knitwear role.
- Strong creative design skills with a good understanding of garment construction.
- Excellent Illustrator CAD skills.
- Strong communication and experience of working with Global suppliers.
- Good knowledge of stitch techniques, 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.
- Shima Seiki experience would be great.