Senior Menswear Designer
Leeds/Hybrid
A fantastic opportunity has become available for an experienced Senior Menswear Designer to join a well-established client based in Leeds. In return for your experience and excellence you will receive a fantastic salary, hybrid working, flexi hours and travel opportunities.
In this role you will be a key member of the design team. You will work closely with the menswear buyer, head of design and founder, to continually grow and develop the offer. You will need to be a proactive team player, contributing new ideas, tailored to the brand’s DNA. The role requires a high level of graphic and print ability, with good knowledge of different application techniques and strong Photoshop and Illustrator skills. Wider product knowledge is also important, as you will be required to develop across all menswear areas. You will be working directly with suppliers to develop seasonal designs, creating a good rapport, providing detailed techpacks and working directly with them on development trips. The role also involves managing any given deadlines and attending relevant sign off meetings. Branding handwriting is a key part of the role, so previous experience of working with a lifestyle brand would be beneficial, but you will also need to be aware of current market and forecast trends.
Requirements
• Provide a high level of awareness and knowledge on current and future trends and to use this enhance the design quality of the department.
• Creating season themes that reflect current trends while maintaining handwriting and protecting brand territories.
• Working and developing closely with the buying team.
• Understanding and sourcing of new fabrics.
• Strong Illustrator and photoshop skulls.
• Develop graphics, embroideries and prints.
• Work with suppliers to develop your designs and provide detailed techpacks.
• Going on research and development trips. Both local and international.
• Work collaboratively with departments across the business to aligning on seasonal direction, timelines, styling and customer insights.
• Build brand identity by delivering beautiful collections
• Confidently present collections to the wider business
• Attending sign off meetings
Experience
You will have extensive experience working as a menswear designer for no less than 5 years and knowledge of what makes a product on brand. You should have experience of graphic and print design, a good technical knowledge of garment construction, fit and fabrication as well as a good eye for colour, detail and styling. You will have excellent Illustrator and Photoshop skills and an enthusiastic and adaptable approach with a highly organised and collaborative approach.
You should hold a BA(Hons) degree certification or higher.
Skills
• Communication
• Self-Management
• People management
• Leadership skills
• Critical thinking
• Change agent
Behaviours
• Integrity; honesty, dependability, trustworthy, ethical, fair and inclusive
• Passionate; engaged and enthusiastic in your role and advocate for the business
• Customer and quality focused; outcome orientated; goal focused.
• Collaborative; inclusive, team player, shares ideas and welcomes input
• Self-development champion; active in own development, cognizant of own development needs, ambitious for self and the business
• Supportive; recognise the achievements of the team whilst encouraging them to improve; adapting style to support team members
• Emotionally Intelligent; empathetic, respectful, supportive, considerate, self-aware, resilient, positive and passionate, stress and ambiguity tolerant, calm under pressure
• Consistency; delivery of promises; consistently high standard of output, clear words and actions.
• Brand/ business ambassador; building internal and external community focus, role model for the brand and values of the business, displaying external integrity