Womenswear Soft Wovens Designer

We are recruiting for a leading supplier working with major supermarkets and large UK retailers, who are looking for a Softs Wovens Designer across womenswear to join the team. Based in London, this is a customer facing role suited to a commercially driven designer with a feminine, trend led handwriting and the confidence to present ideas clearly and persuasively to key retail accounts.

You will play a central role in delivering trend right, highly wearable soft woven ranges that meet the needs of high volume retail environments and align with customer briefs and trading strategies.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop commercially focused soft woven ranges tailored to supermarket and large retail customers, aligning with briefs, target price points and volume requirements
• Present ranges, concepts and design updates to key retail customers with confidence, adapting presentation style to different stakeholders
• Translate trends into feminine, accessible product, ensuring designs are highly commercial, scalable and suitable for large volume production
• Maintain strong commercial awareness across bestsellers, competitor activity and retail performance to inform relevant and profitable design decisions
• Work closely with internal teams to ensure designs are delivered on time and in line with customer expectations, supporting the full product lifecycle
• Contribute to short lead development where required, ensuring speed to market while maintaining a consistent feminine aesthetic and quality

Person Specification

• Proven experience designing soft wovens within a supplier environment, ideally working with supermarkets or large UK retailers, with a strong understanding of high volume retail requirements
• Confident and credible in customer facing situations, with the ability to build relationships and influence key retail partners
• A feminine, trend aware design handwriting with the ability to interpret trends into commercially successful product
• Neat, feminine and highly considered handwriting, with excellent attention to detail across all presentation work
• Highly organised, proactive and comfortable working at pace across multiple accounts, reacting to the fast moving nature of supermarket and large retail business
• Experience working with short lead times is advantageous

£45000 - £55000 per annum + excellent company benefits