Designer - Ladieswear

**About the role**:
As a Designer on Ladies jersey and leisure, you will support the Senior Designer in designing and developing comprehensive ranges in conjunction with the Buyers and wider trading teams, ensuring that the product and ranges reflect the current market and Matalan's customers.
- Undertake Market research to identify what the latest trends, colours and fabrics are and Matalan's competitors ranges.
- Provide advice and insight on intial samples, ensuring that the manufactured garments match initial design specifications.
- Liaise with the Buyers on costs/ margins to ensure that the range can realistically be bought with-in the given budget.
- Undertake factory visits and competitive shopping trips in the UK, USA and Far East with full reports and feedback to the Buying and Design teams.
- Occasionally attend fit meetings to ensure the look, fit, shape and quality of each garment is correct. Approving lab dips, trims and fabric where necessary.

**About You**:

- Previous experience as a Designer, preferably within the jersey or leisure department.
- Degree educated, ideally in Fashion, Textile, or Graphic Design
- Advance Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop skills
- Strong technical and creative design skills - including the ability to design prints and graphics
- Strong verbal and communication skills

**About Matalan**:
Founded in the early 1980s by John Hargreaves in Liverpool, Matalan is a family retail business that is proud to serve its customer excellent quality at great value.

With over 200 stores in the UK, a growing online presence and over 15,000 employees, working here is exciting, collaborative, challenging, and above all fun

As part of the Matalan family you can expect some great benefits and the opportunity to be part of our exciting vision - to become the UK’s most trusted value retailer. This is Retail Made Real.

**Benefits**:

- Hybrid working, 3 days in the office, 2 days at home
- Flexible start and finish times
- Early Finish Friday every week (3 pm)
- Early Finish Birthday
- 2pm finish on your special day
- Wellbeing day additional to annual leave
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (increasing up to 30 days with length of service)
- 20% discount in-store and online
- Great development opportunities through our My Matalan offer plus the chance to develop on the job and access funding for professional qualifications
- Private Healthcare
- Group Life Assurance of 3 x salary