Knitted Accessories Designer
- Recruiter
- People Marketing
- Location
- Manchester
- Salary
- 15000.00 - 19999.00 GBP Annual + 20,000 - 29,999, 30,000 - 39,999
- Posted
- 22 Jul 2017
- Closes
- 16 Aug 2017
- Sectors
- Travel & Tourism
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
One of the leading accessories suppliers in the UK has a very exciting opening in its team for a Designer of soft accessories. Due to continued growth they are looking for a creative and trend led Designer with experience of designing across multiple account sin a fast paced environment.
Trend reaction is key as are strong CAD skills. You will design fashionable, trend-focusses accessories (hats, gloves and scarves etc) for some really exciting customers, ranging from supermarket fashion brands all the way to high end labels - and everything in between. Shape and some print skills are key.
You will get the opportunity to travel to overseas for shopping, research and development. You will be a main point of contact for the customers and be heavily involved in client meetings - so polished presentation skills are a must!
Knitted Accessories Designer - The Role:
- Research relevant markets to allow you to build an in depth knowledge of trends to form a platform to design
- Trend-watch: research and communicate the latest trends across the business and to customers
- Design product ranges, providing CADs, mood boards and sketches; ensure that all work submitted has a high standard of commerciality and creativity, across market levels and customer demographics
- Designing entire product from initial concept, working on both shape and print.
- Present design trends to the business during each season
- Maintain and build relationships with customers, colleagues and suppliers
- Work closely with the Key Account Manager to provide exceptional design work for customers
- Travel to the Far East on sourcing and development trips where necessary and travel worldwide on comp shops, ensuring that return on company expenditure is maximised and that all follow-up documentation is completed
- Drive best practice to consistently develop and improve the design process
- Experience of managing multiple accounts in terms of design, in a fast paced creative environment
Knitted Accessories Designer - The candidate:
- 2/3+ years' experience designing fashion accessories
- Excellent CAD/freehand skills
- Experience using Illustrator and Photoshop
- Experience of presenting in internal and external Trend Presentation and CAD reviews
- Candidates from a knitwear design background who are looking to make the move to accessories will also be considered.
CVs without accompanying relevant artwork will not be considered.
Please submit via email a CV and a covering letter in a word document format stating current salary, together with separate examples of your design work in a PDF format (max. 5MB) to -
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