Design Coordinator orchestrating visual design operations while leading a team at Sem Parar. Aiming to leverage AI and efficient workflows for impactful design initiatives.
About the role
- Senior Fashion Designer leading creative direction for womenswear collections. Collaborating cross-functionally to drive commercial success while mentoring junior designers.
Responsibilities
- Set the overall creative direction and vision for collections, ensuring consistency with brand strategy and long-term goals
- Lead seasonal concept development, including shoot concepts and storytelling
- Approve final line-ups, ensuring product range aligns with customer needs and commercial objectives
- Evaluate market trends, consumer behaviour, and competitor activity to drive future design strategies and direction
- Lead high-level supplier relationships and negotiate key developments independently
- Oversee collection planning, ensuring design workstreams align with critical path and business priorities
- Mentor and develop junior designers, providing guidance on both creative and technical aspects
- Collaborate with senior members (Buying, Marketing, Merchandising) to align creative direction
- Lead design reviews and present collections to leadership with clear rationale and vision
- React strategically to trade and performance feedback, driving quick-turn updates or edits to enhance sell-through
Requirements
- · Extensive experience in fashion design, with a strong track record of designing commercially successful womenswear collections
- · Demonstrated ability to set and lead creative direction across multiple product categories, with a deep understanding of brand identity and customer profile
- · Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with experience managing, coaching, and developing junior designers
- · Proven experience conducting market and trend research, with the ability to translate insights into commercially relevant, brand-aligned collections.
- · Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), and confident in producing high-quality CADs, moodboards, and presentation materials.
- · Strong technical skills in garment construction and product development, including creating and reviewing detailed tech packs and prototypes
- · Experience negotiating with suppliers and managing high-level vendor relationships with confidence and professionalism
- · Confident in presenting collections and design rationale to leadership and cross-functional teams
- · Excellent organisational and project management skills — able to manage multiple deadlines, oversee the critical path, and balance creative output with business priorities
- · Collaborative approach with cross-functional teams (Buying, Merchandising, Garment Tech, Marketing), ensuring alignment at all stages of the design and development process
- · Resilient, adaptable, and solution-oriented, with a forward-thinking, trend-led design approach
Benefits
- Birthday day off
- 25-day holiday
- Flexible hours
- Vibrant team
- 40% off staff discount
- Team socials
- Free Parking
- Competitions
- Hybrid working - 4 days in the Altrincham office
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