Designer Womenswear

e are seeking a highly creative and commercially minded Senior Womenswear Designer to lead the development of innovative, high-performance product for the Craghoppers brand. In this key role, you will shape and deliver compelling womenswear ranges that blend style, functionality, and sustainability - ensuring every design reflects our brand identity, meets the highest standards of quality, and is delivered in line with critical calendar milestones. The Impact you will have in this role is: Research

• Collaborate with the buying and product teams to ensure products meet strategic direction and price targets.
• Create concepts, fashion sketch ideas, shape silhouettes, and explore fabric and trim choices that push the collection forward.
• Research trends, references, and cultural shifts to keep the collection directional, relevant, and commercially aware ensuring product align with the brands strategy.
• Excellent understanding of the market, key trends and our competitors offering.
• Create working designs to establish handwriting for each season ensuring performance and function is considered.
• Our Customers' requirements are identified and met through working closely with relevant areas of the business.
• Work within Branding guidelines ensuring product is synonymous with Craghoppers identity yet maintains a creative and directional flair.
Colour & Pattern
• Trend-led commercial seasonal colour palettes are created that are relevant to our market.
• Your knowledge of colour trends is always fresh and you keep the team updated on your research.
• Responsible for buying colour standards & creating palettes in PLM.
• Generate print and graphic direction and artwork where required.
Design Development
• Drive the creative process from research through to final design: mood boards, sketches, colour stories, silhouettes, CADs, and refinement for all categories across womenswear (outerwear, midlayers, jersey, legwear and accessories.)
• Work alongside a skilled technical and product development team who will evolve your ideas into fully functional product using CLO 3D design software.
• Work in CLO 3D to ensure designs are coloured up ready for development.
• Create and maintain seasonal range plans in illustrator and PLM.
• Work with Buying team to select and develop new fabrics where appropriate.
• Communicate clearly with Buying and Product Development to ensure changes are clear through development cycle.
Strategy
• Bring clarity and inspiration to presentations, communicating your vision with confidence.
• Ensure strategy reviews are prepared to a high standard.
• Collaborate with menswear designer ensuring men's and women's products are consistent across the ranges.
• Collections are presented confidently at internal and external meetings.
• Corporate calendar deadlines are adhered to.
• Mentor design assistants, contributing to a strong creative culture.
Branding and accessories
• New artwork is designed and developed in line with the brand's plans and themes.
• Handwriting is kept consistent., Fitness Perks: Access to our onsite fitness suite and wellbeing room.
• Convenient Facilities: Freshen up with our on-site shower facilities, complete with hairdryers and straighteners.
Our Regatta Family: The Regatta Group supplies quality outdoor clothing and accessories through our 3 great brands - Regatta, Craghoppers and Dare2b - whether exploring the Amazon rainforest, walking your dog in the local park or cycling the Tour de France, we have what you need. It's a friendly, supportive family business - a place where bakers, dog walkers, book worms, students, parents, travellers, movie buffs, foodies, festival goers, musicians and more come together to create experiences our customers really appreciate. The thing we all have in common, is that we share the same core values of Great Relationships and Entrepreneurial Spirit. Our investment in the environment: Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do, and you will have the opportunity to support our Group wide sustainability committee and put ideas into action and really make a difference to the world we live in!


• Design qualification to degree level.
• Brand Awareness and product relevance.
• 7+ years experience relevant experience in Design at a Senior level for a branded company designing across multiple category areas with significant outerwear experience.
• Experience range planning, with sales analysis and managing SKU count.
• Technical spec building, strong graphic skills, technical knowledge of clothing, People Management, presentation skills.
• A refined fashion handwriting and strong eye for shape, proportion, and detail.
• Strong sketching, illustration, and CAD abilities.
• Confident, collaborative, and comfortable working with product developers and technical specialists.
• Portfolio demonstrating contemporary fashion design with strong outerwear pieces.
• Computer literate, full understanding of Adobe Illustrator, Indesign, CAD software and Excel, Centric PLM or relevant alternative, CLO 3D Design.