Dresses & Skirts Designer Womenswear - Next Sourcing

About The Role:

• Design all Dresses & Skirts for Womenswear, with a focus on high-quality, trend-led basics.
• Respond quickly to briefs, producing fast-turnaround designs as needed.
• Research trends and translate them into elevated, customer-relevant products.
• Work within price point guidelines while maintaining quality and style.
• Collaborate with buyers, sourcing teams, and suppliers to deliver on time and to specifications.
• Support project-based collections as well as core line development.
• Be able to travel as part of the role for inspiration trips annually 

About You:

• Experience & knowledge in Photoshop and Illustrator is essential for this role.
• Having strong team work and people skills is a must as well as experience working with factories and different brands/retailers would be an advantage.
• Must have experience of working for a similar sized Retailer or Supplier background.
• Creative and passionate about fashion and new opportunities.
• Eye for fabrics and graphics.

All applications must be provided with an updated digital portfolio. Any applications without a portfolio will not be considered. 


Sponsorship: 
Candidates wishing to apply who would require sponsorship for this role will be required to meet the Home Office sponsorship requirements. For further information please see: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.


We encourage early applications for our roles, as our recruitment process begins as soon as the role is advertised. If we successfully fill the position, this advert may close earlier than planned.

You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!