Knitwear Designer

The Company:

Due to our continued growth, we are looking to recruit a Men’s Knitwear Designer to join a busy design team. Our client a clothing importer based in the UK supplying the UK, mainland Europe and rest of world high street retailers. Production is mostly made in South Asia & China.

The Role:

• Developing seasonal stock collections across several in-house brands.
• Working to customer briefs to present relevant collections that satisfy their style and colour direction for both UK & global contract customers.
• Creating technical packs for initial sample development and fine tuning with colourway options for production.
• Creating profiles for ordered styles on our PLMS database for orders to be raised by our merchandise department.
• Liaising with our China and Bangladesh offices, senior management, sales, garment technologists and merchandisers.

Skills Required:

• Minimum of five years’ experience in a similar men’s knitwear role.
• Strong creative design skills.
• Excellent Illustrator CAD skills.
• Strong communication and experience of working with Global suppliers.
• Sound knowledge of knitting times, yarn counts and gauges.
• Commercially aware with a good eye to adapt high street trends and colour.
• Exceptionally well organised with good attention to detail.
• Able to work as part of a team.
• CV with a current portfolio.
• Shima Seiki experience would be great but not essential.

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Please be aware the duties listed above are an interpretation of the role and do not form any part of your employment contract. Please ask the interviewer any questions about the role that you wish to clarify.

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