[JOBS] DESIGNER - WOMENSWEAR OUTERWEAR : BARBOUR

Position Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Designer to join our Womenswear Outerwear Design team on a temporary Maternity cover based at Barbour House, South Shields.

You will be involved in initial concept all the way through to the finished product, creating and developing seasonal ranges in line with critical path deadlines

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and develop outerwear products following structured range plan by designing to RRPs, target consumer and following range direction.

• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple projects across multiple seasons whilst adhering to the business-critical path.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the key markets in which to grow sales within Barbour, through regular market visits and range reviews with key representatives from each market.

• Create an accurate, detailed technical specification for each product and ability to communicate development of prototypes working alongside our technical team.

• Manage the full design process of collections and product from concept through to end sales launch.

• Develop comprehensive mood and colour boards and maintain to be accurate throughout the season.

• Ability to communicate with other departments to ensure ranges are aligned across all categories.

• Driving design development of key shapes, fabrics, and relevant new colours with the fabric development team for each season. Ability to accurately manage fabric booking and lab dip requests for collections where responsible. Working with product types - Wax, quilted and insulated products, Waterproof and breathable jackets, casual wear

• Work closely with the technical team and manufacturing base, to create prototype and selling samples to the required fit and specification, in line with the critical path deadlines.

• Assist the creation of outerwear products, through the input of ideas each season and the creation of detailed product specifications.

• Provide accurate information on all products to the Marketing and E Commerce teams.

• Present the product ranges to the Sales teams.

• Ability to work across multiple product types with a variety of specific technical requirements.

Skills and Experience:

• Preferable: hold degree in clothing and fashion design.

• Established experience of designing, developing, and presenting outerwear

• Demonstrate an understanding of the Barbour brand positioning, it's heritage and competitor brands.

• Experience in creating clothing for multiple global markets.

• Excellent working knowledge of Illustrator and Photoshop packages.