Junior Designer - Womenswear Athleisure

Overview

We are actively seeking a Junior Designer across womenswear athleisure. This is to join a design-led fashion supplier to work across high volume successful retailers.

This is a great opportunity for a Junior Womenswear Designer to join a friendly team, supporting the development of commercially relevant product with a focus on leisure, performance and fashion jersey. The role works closely with a Senior Designer, offering strong exposure to trend research, client presentation and end-to-end sample development.

This role is based in London and offers hybrid working.

Main Responsibilities will include:

• Producing seasonal and weekly trend and catwalk research, identifying key silhouettes, fabrics and design details, and reacting quickly to emerging trends.
• Supporting and presenting to clients, selling in design direction and responding to briefs, creating mood boards.
• Building relationships with client Buyers and Designers, sharing inspiration, receiving briefs and supporting sample development aligned to the agreed direction.
• Creating designs and detailed technical packs under the guidance of the Senior Designer.
• Briefing tech packs to overseas production teams and factories, answering queries and chasing developments to ensure high-quality samples are delivered to critical dates and sign offs.
• Sending clear meeting notes and recaps to internal teams and client contacts.
• Providing hands-on administrative support within a small business environment.

• Previous experience within a supplier or retail environment working ideally in womenswear with elevated knitted products such as tees and sweats.
• Experience or interest in graphic and print direction is advantageous.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating a commercial eye for trend and product direction.
• Ability to create detailed tech packs, proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
• Confident communicator with good interpersonal skills.

£50000 - £55000 per annum + excellent company benefits