Lingerie, Swim and Nightwear Designer

Job type:Permanent
Town/City:Harrogate
County:West Yorkshire
Role:Designer
Job ref:333
Post Date:03.12.24
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Lingerie, Swim & Nightwear Designer

West Yorkshire - Hybrid

Our client specialises in the design, development and manufacture of lingerie, underwear, nightwear and swimwear for leading retailers and brands. Based in a beautiful location in Yorkshire and with their own factory in China, they offer a comprehensive design and technical service to their customers. Due to continued growth and exciting new opportunities, they now need to expand their amazing creative team and are looking for a Designer with lingerie, swimwear and nightwear experience to work on leading brand and retail accounts. 

To be considered for this role, you would need:

  • An eye for fashion trends and new product innovation. 
  • A keen interest in catwalk trends, fashion, fabric, print designs and trims is a must.
  • CAD skills using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop as standard. 
  • Print design skills.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • To be able to manage your own workload and take responsibility for the customer accounts assigned to you, working autonomously to meet deadlines and sharing knowledge and product with your colleagues.
  • Excel skills and the ability to use MS Teams and Outlook.
  • Availability to travel to fairs and exhibitions, comp shopping trips, customer meetings and global suppliers.
  • A creative mindset, able to turn the ideas and thoughts of buyers into stunning sketches and CADS to help the account managers secure orders.

If this sounds like you and you would like to be part of a small, friendly, hard working team in a growing company then please apply now.

Please note this is a hybrid role, based in the office Mon, Tue and Thu with remaining days based remotely.  Ability to travel to customer meetings in UK and Europe as well as overseas suppliers is a must.

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