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