Senior Designer Womenswear

We are seeking a highly creative and commercially minded Senior Womenswear Designer to lead the development of innovative, high‑performance product for the Craghoppers brand. In this key role, you will shape and deliver compelling womenswear ranges that blend style, functionality, and sustainability – ensuring every design reflects our brand identity, meets the highest standards of quality, and is delivered in line with critical calendar milestones.

Impact You Will Have In This Role

Research

• Collaborate with buying and product teams to ensure products meet strategic direction and price targets.
• Create concepts, fashion sketch ideas, shape silhouettes, and explore fabric and trim choices that push the collection forward.
• Research trends, references, and cultural shifts to keep the collection directional, relevant, and commercially aware, ensuring product aligns with the brand’s strategy.
• Maintain an excellent understanding of the market, key trends and competitors’ offerings.
• Create working designs to establish handwriting for each season while considering performance and function.
• Identify and meet customer requirements through close collaboration with relevant business areas.
• Work within branding guidelines to ensure products remain synonymous with Craghoppers identity while retaining a creative and directional flair.

Colour & Pattern

• Create trend‑led commercial seasonal colour palettes that are relevant to our market.
• Keep the team updated on the latest colour trends.
• Responsible for buying colour standards and creating palettes in PLM.
• Generate print and graphic direction and artwork where required.

Design Development

• Drive the creative process from research through to final design: mood boards, sketches, colour stories, silhouettes, CADs, and refinement for all womenswear categories.
• Collaborate with a skilled technical and product development team to evolve ideas into fully functional product using CLO 3D design software.
• Ensure designs are coloured up in CLO 3D and ready for development.
• Create and maintain seasonal range plans in Illustrator and PLM.
• Select and develop new fabrics in partnership with the buying team where appropriate.
• Communicate clearly with buying and product development to ensure changes are understood throughout the development cycle.

Strategy

• Bring clarity and inspiration to presentations, communicating your vision with confidence.
• Prepare high‑standard strategy reviews.
• Collate cross‑gender consistency with menswear design.
• Present collections confidently at internal and external meetings.
• Adhere to corporate calendar deadlines.
• Mentor design assistants, fostering a strong creative culture.

Branding and Accessories

• Design and develop new artwork in line with the brand’s themes.
• Maintain consistent handwriting.

Qualifications

• Design qualification to degree level.
• Brand awareness and product relevance.
• 7+ years of senior design experience for a branded company across multiple categories, with significant outerwear focus.
• Experience in range planning, sales analysis and SKU management.
• Technical specification building, strong graphic skills, and comprehensive garment knowledge.
• People management and presentation skills.
• A refined fashion handwriting and keen eye for shape, proportion and detail.
• Strong sketching, illustration and CAD abilities.
• Confident, collaborative and comfortable working with product developers and technical specialists.
• Portfolio demonstrating contemporary fashion design with robust outerwear pieces.
• Computer literate with full understanding of Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, CAD software, Excel, Centric PLM (or equivalent) and CLO 3D Design.

Benefits

• Profit Share Bonus: discretionary bonus based on company success.
• Future‑Proof Pension: comprehensive retirement plan.
• Annual Leave: 25 days of paid leave.
• Loyalty Rewards: one extra day off for every 3 years of service, up to 2 days.
• Buy‑More Leave: up to 3 additional days of annual leave each year.
• Continual Development: training, apprenticeship courses and learning opportunities.
• Exclusive Discounts across all brands.
• Perks: variety of benefits accessible via company website.
• Family Support: enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave after 2 years of service.
• Birthday Hours: celebration hours on your special day.
• Wellness Walks: company walks for health and networking.
• Inspiring Workspace: state‑of‑the‑art head office environment.
• Volunteer Day: paid day off to support community projects.
• Hassle‑Free Parking: free secure on‑site parking.
• Delicious Dining: subsidised canteen with Starbucks coffee.
• Cycle to Work: scheme to support sustainable commuting.
• Fitness Perks: onsite fitness suite and wellbeing room.
• Convenient Facilities: on‑site showers, hairdryers and straighteners.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: At Regatta Group, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming workplace. We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from all backgrounds. Should you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, we are happy to support you.

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