Garment Technologist - FTC & Perm - Fashion in London

Our client is a brilliant fashion brand, who are looking for experienced garment technologists across denim & outerwear (FTC), jersey and woven (both PERM).

Salary: circa 50K based on experience. 4 days in the London office and 1 WFH - there is no negotiation on this.

What you'll be doing:

• Strategic Contribution: Understands the business strategy and translates it into actionable quality objectives within the product category, contributing to the wider quality team and representing the team in cross-business forums.
• Customer & Market Insight: Uses customer insight tools, store and DC visits, and market benchmarking to understand expectations and competitor advances, driving continuous product improvement.
• Quality Management: Owns and embeds the Quality Framework, ensuring robust assurance processes throughout the value chain and compliance with legal and brand standards.
• BMD Collaboration: Works closely with the BMD team to align quality processes with the departmental critical path, support trading activities, and influence decisions to meet customer expectations.
• Product & Manufacturing Expertise: Applies specialist knowledge of materials, construction, pattern technology, grading, and supplier capabilities to deliver products right first time, balancing cost, quality, and commercial value.
• Risk Assessment & Continuous Improvement: Acts as the risk assessment ambassador for the category, implementing corrective actions where standards fall short and embedding risk assessment within all quality processes.
• Technical Leadership: Mentors and upskills the wider quality and BMD teams, sharing knowledge to improve decision-making, purchasing practices, and product consistency.
• Innovation & Best Practice: Drives adoption of new technologies, feedback loops, and frameworks to deliver consistent, high-quality products, including overseeing test-and-learn initiatives.
• Team Development: Motivates, coaches, and develops direct reports, supporting personal growth, skills transfer, and deputising for the Technical Manager as required.
• Operational Excellence: Ensures packaging, labelling, and transit methods maintain brand consistency and product value, while proactively challenging processes to uphold customer standards.

Who you are:

• Technical Knowledge: Assimilates and articulates a clear understanding of customer expectations and what that means for standard setting and the importance of a Quality framework. Applies first-hand experience of manufacturing environments. Knowledge of product construction, material performance. Proficient in running a fit session (clothing/footwear)/pre-production meeting. Makes solution-based decisions from skilled interpretation of test reports. Understand open costing and able to support buying team through product engineering. Proactive in benchmarking product – production for consistency and competitors for innovation. Is able to specify packaging and presentation requirements of a product throughout the value chain. Understanding of the brand's and sub-brand strategy and actively participating in the development and delivery of department strategy. Actively implement regulatory requirements within their product area. Understand roles and responsibilities within the BMD team, uses this to ensure impacts of decisions widely considered and has developed networks. Assimilates KPI reports and responds appropriately and in a timely way to manage and implement change. Ability to convert product requirements into technical terms. Ability to conduct a technical factory audit, reporting non-conformances and agreeing corrective actions. Will demonstrate a natural tendency towards leadership in a team to achieve results. Growing knowledge and willingness to embrace new technologies. Clearly visible & vocal within the BMD team meetings; sign offs, reviews, order signing etc. Excellent negotiation and influencing skills. Ability to initiate and build strong relationships with all suppliers. Makes decisions from an informed standpoint, and is confident and assertive, ensuring all decisions are solution focused. Risk assessment and SWOT analysis skills. Ability to line manage, motivate and develop the team.
• Knowledge and Experience: Previous experience as a Technologist within a major retailer. Product specialist in chosen category. Minimum level of education or qualifications: Appropriate Technical Qualification / Other degree.