Knitwear Designer
4 days ago
02929 Designer - Knitwear Developer London £24,000 - £28,000
About the role
As our Designer - Knitwear Developer you will be designing a range of collections and working closely with the design and development team in order to create luxury styles and working to find new ways to improve our processes and sustainability.
You will develop an understanding for the Bamford philosophy and core values and interpret this into exciting new products across multiple categories.
Main responsibilities
- Work closely with the Head Designer on the creative research of trends, themes, colours, fabrics, and the development of seasonal briefs.
- Build creative presentations for seasonal collections, including mood, trend, and story boards.
- Interpret the collection briefs to design and innovate new têxtile, knit, print and weave samples.
- Manage the product development of seasonal long lead knitwear collections as well as quick reaction short lead ranges.
- Collaborate on ad hoc projects and adapt skills to develop multi-category products such as babywear, menswear, accessories, and homeware.
- Accurately fill and update seasonal Range Plan, Product Bible and Line detail for the above categories.
- Create clear, accurate knitwear specifications including trim details, construction methods, fit comments, graded size charts and labelling requirements (tech packs); ensure suppliers are fully equipped for sampling and production.
- Responsible for providing detailed tech packs and launching knitwear styles with factories in line with the critical path.
- Participate in fit meetings and implement changes to tech packs and communicate the changes to the relevant suppliers.
- Be mindful of target costs by category and design in reference to these with support from the production and buying team.
- Record the movement of samples using accurate labelling and documentation and then archive all swatches and samples for future references.
- Build excellent relationships with our suppliers to implement standards and comments are understood on all product requirements.
About you
As our Technical Product Developer, you’ll be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:
- Experience in knitwear construction and manufacturing processes.
- Previous experience within luxury womenswear required
- Strong commercial handwriting that can be adaptable to the Bamford philosophy.
- Computer literate with good working knowledge of Excel, Photoshop and Adobe.
- Excellent portfolio and presentation skills, able to construct strong and professional mood boards.
- Strong organisation skills, and able to work to deadlines with good time management.
- Proactive and able to build relationships easily; team-oriented approach.
- Able to demonstrate the ability to deliver high quality work to tight deadlines, managing a demanding and varied workload.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate successfully at all levels.
- Understanding and interest in working with natural fibres as opposed to man-made materials.
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