Having great design vision and awareness of changing market trends, guiding the Men's Design team to react swiftly and effectively.
Understanding the need for strong and effective communication, building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders (UK Next Design Managers/Senior Designers etc).
Working with the Sales Manager, driving key areas of opportunity to increase business levels.
Travel will feature heavily in this role with seasonal visits to the territories and inspiration trips with designers being a regular occurrence.
This is a great opportunity for someone looking to progress and really accelerate their development.
The day to day…
To plan and create a directional and inspirational product development strategy for the department which draws on influences from a variety of design sources and reflects the latest shapes, colours, moods, fabrics and techniques, as well as seasonal changes.
Working in line with the agreed critical path ensuring fabric packs and designs are produced in a timely manner.
Work with Product Managers to ensure Design strategy can be realised
Identify and initiate new trend opportunities; constantly review the ranges, empower and motivate the team to challenge content and embrace creativity.
Work closely with your Director on key Design objectives.
Working alongside the territory product managers on key areas of opportunity. This will include supporting territories with planning showrooms, working on product capsules in advance of key meetings i.e., range building, selections, buying visits to territories.
About you…
You will be looking for that next step in your career development, ready to take on new challenges. You will be organised with good time management and planning skills. Alongside this you will be enthusiastic, dedicated and have excellent communication skills.
Qualifications…
Degree or HND in fashion or textiles.
Experience designing menswear is desirable for this role
You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!
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