Ladies & Mens Adult Nightwear Designer

Reference
1110146

Branch
University of Staffordshire

Start date
06/04/2026

Duration
Ongoing

Hours and days
Monday - Thursday 8am to 5pm, Friday 8am to 2pm - 40 hours a week in total

Dress code
Smart Casual

Salary from
£27,000

Salary to
£27,000

Role

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. My 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. 

Duties and responsibilities

• 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 work load 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.

Skills and experience

• Experience in Licensed Apparel
• BA in fashion design or Surface Pattern 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
• Basic fabric and print knowledge

Location
Leek, Staffordshire

Benefits

• Holiday Pay
• On site free parking
• Excellent opportunity to start a career in fashion industry based locally in Leek

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