Womenswear Designer

Womenswear Designer | Fashion | Trend Led Brand | Manchester | £35,000 - £45,000 DOE + Benefits

Benefits:

• Free onsite parking
• 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
• Additional day off for your birthday
• Employee discount
• Discretionary bonus
• Company pension

The Role & The Brand

This is a vibrant, steadily growing fashion brand built on bold ideas, sharp instinct, and a genuine love of design.

Trend-led and fashion-forward, this is a brand that lives and breathes product and has done for over 10 years. It's for the cool girl; confident, style-aware, and happy to invest in her wardrobe. She wants pieces that feel directional yet timeless, sharp yet wearable. This isn't basic fashion, and it isn't disposable fast fashion. It's elevated, design-led womenswear at a considered mid-exit price point, underpinned by quality and intention.

The brand is in an exciting phase of growth, expanding reach, and evolving its collections with clarity and ambition. They are refining what they stand for, strengthening their handwriting, and building something with longevity.

We're now looking for a Womenswear Designer who understands not only what looks good but what can build legacy.

The Role Itself:

As the Womenswear Designer, you will define and drive the creative vision season after season, owning the journey from initial concept to final sample across key categories. This is a role for someone deeply immersed in fashion culture. You need to know who's hot and who's not. Who's aspirational and who's overexposed. What creates depth, desire, and long-term brand commitment and what dilutes it.

Working closely with Buying, Merchandising, Marketing, Garment Tech, and directly with the Founders, you will influence not just product, but positioning and storytelling. You'll help ensure every collection feels cohesive, directional, and aligned with the brand's evolving identity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute and articulate the seasonal design vision, ensuring it reflects a strong, fashion-forward point of view.
• Help to support and manage the full design calendar from concept through to final sample approval.
• Forecast trends through catwalk analysis, social media, cultural insight, and competitor research, translating insight into forward-thinking, commercially viable collections.
• Identify key shapes, silhouettes, fabrics, trims, and colour palettes that strengthen brand handwriting and build recognition.
• Design cohesive collections that balance trend authority, wearability, and longevity.
• Maintain daily competitor and market awareness, understanding where the brand sits in relation to aspirational players.
• Protect and evolve bestsellers while introducing elevated newness that keeps the range fresh and desirable.
• Design with depth - creating pieces that encourage investment and repeat purchase.
• Oversee sampling and fittings with Buyers and Garment Techs to ensure quality, fit, and design intent are fully realised.
• Work closely with suppliers on development, tech packs, and sample management.
• Attend shopping trips, trade shows, and supplier visits to source newness and maintain inspiration.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Creative teams to bring product stories to life across campaigns and content.
• Support and mentor others, contributing to a strong and ambitious team culture.

Who You Are:

• 3+ years' experience within a trend-led fashion design role.
• A strong, commercially aware portfolio that shows both creativity and proven sell-through.
• Deeply immersed in fashion, culturally aware, instinctive, and opinionated in the right way.
• Confident in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Strong knowledge of garment construction, fabrication, and production processes.
• Commercially sharp! you understand margin, price architecture, and the expectations of a mid-market customer.
• A clear communicator who presents ideas with confidence and conviction.
• Naturally proactive - you push standards, elevate thinking, and don't wait to be told.
• Excited to join a scaling brand where you can influence direction and build something meaningful.

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