Details
1110678
University of Staffordshire
15/04/2026
Ongoing
Monday - Thursday 8am to 5pm, Friday 8am to 2pm - 40 hours a week in total
Smart Casual
Pay
£12.98
£1.57
Description
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. They are looking to recruit a designer to nurture and grow with the company.
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
Benefits
- Holiday Pay
- On site free parking
- Excellent opportunity to start a career in fashion industry based locally in Leek