Senior Designer Womenswear

We 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 the product is synonymous with Craghoppers identity yet maintains a creative and directional flair.
• 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 and creating palettes in PLM.
• Generate print and graphic direction and artwork where required.
• 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 the buying team to select and develop new fabrics where appropriate.
• Communicate clearly with buying and product development to ensure changes are clear through the development cycle.
• 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.
• New artwork is designed and developed in line with the brand’s plans and themes.
• Handwriting is kept consistent.

Qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

• Profit Share Bonus: Enjoy a discretionary bonus based on the company’s success.
• Future‑Proof Pension: Secure your retirement with our comprehensive pension plan.
• Annual Leave: 25 days starting annual leave entitlement.
• Loyalty Rewards: Earn an extra day off for every three years of service, up to two additional days.
• Buy More Leave: Buy up to an additional three days of annual leave each year.
• Continual Development: Comprehensive training and development, including bitesize learning, apprenticeship courses and ongoing opportunities to grow your career.
• Exclusive Discounts: Get special discounts across all our brands.
• Perks at Your Fingertips: Access a variety of benefits through our company website.
• Family Support: Benefit from enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave after two years of service.
• Celebrate You: Take advantage of birthday hours to celebrate your special day.
• Wellness Walks: Join company walks to stay active and connect with colleagues.
• Inspiring Workspace: Work in a state‑of‑the‑art Head Office environment.
• Volunteer Day: Enjoy a paid day off to give back to your community.
• Hassle‑Free Parking: Free, secure on‑site parking for all employees.
• Delicious Dining: Enjoy meals at our subsidised canteen, featuring Starbucks coffee.
• Cycle to Work: Save on travel with our cycle‑to‑work scheme.
• 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.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Regatta Group, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and welcoming workplace. We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from all backgrounds. Should you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, we are happy to support you.

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