Senior Leathergoods Designer – Luxury Fashion

Salary: DOE
Type: Permanent

My client, a global luxury fashion house is actively searching for a Senior Designer to support a growing category, Leathergoods collections. The role requires effective collaboration with all team members, a high level of attention to detail and confidence working in a fast-paced and pressurised environment. The successful candidate will have excellent creative skills, people and project management skills, strong product sensitivity, underpinned with a commercial mindset.

As the Senior Designer your role is to be part of the Leather goods Design team and provide support to the Head Designers. Following any task, they require.

As part of the design department, you’ll be joining as our Senior Leathergoods Designer, who is responsible for establishing a commercial direction of the complete accessories (both Men’s and Women’s) range through research, development and mood.

Profile:

• Multi-disciplinary design experience across all non-clothing product groups, with significant expertise in leather goods and soft accessories
• A driven self-motivator, with excellent organisational skills
• +8 years’ experience in a similar role,
• Strong and complete experience of product lifecycle; from sketch to consumer.
• Attention to detail and strong communication skills
• Relevant Degree in Fashion Design, with skills in illustration and visual communication.
• Self-motivated and team oriented

The Job:

• Create a seasonal strategic design brief, answering the commercial and artistic needs of the business across all non-clothing categories detailed above
• Identify and deliver detailed style direction on newness as well as existing products
• Present sketch reviews, prototype reviews and sample reviews
• Collaborate with all Menswear, Womenswear, and footwear Designers to ensure a unified attitude and style direction each season
• Work closely with factories and suppliers to commercially deploy vision for product, including all corrections and amendments through the design and development process
• Work closely with Product Managers on development to include product, materials, pricing, and execution

Benefits

• Provide you with a competitive salary
• Company pension
• Generous employee discount
• Company bonus scheme
• Health & Wellbeing perks
• Plus many more
• Sponsorship offered for the right candidate

*Please include your portfolio + CV with your application to be considered.