Senior Designer – Mat Cover, 9-12 Month Contract in Altrincham

• Set the overall creative direction and vision for collections, ensuring consistency with brand strategy and long-term goals
• Lead seasonal concept development, including shoot concepts and storytelling
• Approve final line-ups, ensuring product range aligns with customer needs and commercial objectives
• Evaluate market trends, consumer behaviour, and competitor activity to drive future design strategies and direction
• Lead high-level supplier relationships and negotiate key developments independently
• Oversee collection planning, ensuring design workstreams align with critical path and business priorities
• Mentor and develop junior designers, providing guidance on both creative and technical aspects
• Collaborate with senior members in Buying, Marketing, and Merchandising to align creative direction
• Lead design reviews and present collections to leadership with clear rationale and vision
• React strategically to trade and performance feedback, driving quick‑turn updates or edits to enhance sell‑through

Requirements

• Extensive experience in fashion design, with a strong track record of designing commercially successful womenswear collections
• Demonstrated ability to set and lead creative direction across multiple product categories, with a deep understanding of brand identity and customer profile
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with experience managing, coaching, and developing junior designers
• Proven experience conducting market and trend research, with the ability to translate insights into commercially relevant, brand-aligned collections
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), and confident in producing high-quality CADs, moodboards, and presentation materials
• Strong technical skills in garment construction and product development, including creating and reviewing detailed tech packs and prototypes
• Experience negotiating with suppliers and managing high-level vendor relationships with confidence and professionalism
• Confident in presenting collections and design rationale to leadership and cross‑functional teams
• Excellent organisational and project management skills - able to manage multiple deadlines, oversee the critical path, and balance creative output with business priorities
• Collaborative approach with cross‑functional teams (Buying, Merchandising, Garment Tech, Marketing), ensuring alignment at all stages of the design and development process
• Resilient, adaptable, and solution‑oriented, with a forward‑thinking, trend‑led design approach

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in fashion design with a strong focus on creating commercially successful womenswear collections. Possesses advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and strong technical skills in garment construction and product development.