Are you creative and eager for a new opportunity?  This is a unique opportunity to join a thriving company, offering excellent potential to drive your career forwards.  Tagged Resources' client is the UK’s market-leading manufacturer of character nightwear. They offer day/nightwear, loungewear, and swimwear design to the UK’s largest high street retailers and online companies.

They are looking to recruit a Senior Ladies & Men’s Licensed Nightwear Designer to nurture and grow with the company.

Hybrid working 2 days in the office and 3 at home.

The Role:

• Carry out trend and competitor research, creating mood boards and regular shopping reports.
• Working independently and with designers
• Creating detailed tech packs to send to factories, regular contact with factory partners to ensure clear understanding and smooth production
• Working on a range of licensed character Ladies/ Men’s Nightwear
• Prioritise work and meet deadlines.
• Identify trend in fabrics, colours, print and shapes, developing into new collections, covering a wide range of licensed product.
• See concept designs through to production, working closely with buyers and factories to ensure the brief is met.
• Work closely with technologists and merchandisers, to ensure products fit and find solutions to any problems in production.
• Attending customer meetings
• Design to customer briefs and amend as buyers’ requests.
• Creating exclusive designs, with awareness of cost and factory restrictions.
• Thorough understanding of the current market and research of retailers.
• Managing day to day workload to ensure deadlines are met for samples and designs.
• Develop new products with the factories from research, requesting new fabrics, embellishments and techniques.
• Reasonable travel, regular comparative shopping in the UK and overseas.
• Working on our biggest retail accounts, being able to take on a high level of responsibility
• Working closely with licensed style guides, creating strong bespoke AOP’s

Requirements:

• Experience in Licensed Apparel
• BA in fashion design or similar industry experience
• Strong adobe illustrator & photoshop skills
• Strong presentation, communication and organisation skills
• Ability to work well individually and successfully as part of a team.
• Confident and passionate about design
• Creative and on-trend adaptable Handwriting ability
• Experience in factory and customer-facing roles.
• Strong fabric and print knowledge
• Ability to adapt Handwriting to meet different customer requirements.

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Please be aware the duties listed above are an interpretation of the role and do not form any part of your employment contract. Please ask the interviewer any questions about the role that you wish to clarify.

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