This is a brilliant opportunity to join a leading UK high street supplier as a Ladies Designer, working within a fun, fast-paced and supportive team. The role offers strong training and clear progression, with the chance to take ownership of trend and range development across ladies athleisure and performancewear.

Based in a central London design studio with hybrid working, you will lead on creating commercially relevant, trend-led ranges for key customers, while building strong relationships with buying teams and internal partners overseas.

Main responsibilities will include:

• Planning and developing ladies athleisure and performancewear ranges for customers and internal collections

• Designing CADs for buyer presentations and range sign-off

• Creating accurate tech packs to ensure samples are produced correctly

• Managing sample trackers and maintaining organised critical path updates

• Keeping fabric and trim libraries up to date and proactively sourcing newness

• Producing regular shop reports covering competitor activity and inspiration

• Building and updating seasonal trend packs including key shapes, fabrics, colour, graphics and mood

• Communicating daily with internal merchandising teams overseas to support development and timelines

• Building strong relationships with buying teams through clear communication and presentation

• Maintaining systems and files (e.g., OneDrive) and supporting general studio organisation

• Supporting wider studio admin, including post, keeping rails organised and maintaining tidy folders

Person specification:

• Previous experience designing ladies athleisure and performancewear is required

• Excellent CAD skills, with strong Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign

• Strong commercial design eye with the ability to interpret trends for long lead time supplier ranges

• Confident communication and presentation skills, able to build buyer relationships

• Highly organised, able to work at pace and manage multiple projects

• A collaborative team player with a proactive, can-do attitude

• CLO 3D and Excel skills are beneficial but not essential

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