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View AllDesign Manager - Childnresnwear
Cheshire
North West
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Childrenswear Design Manager
Cheshire Head Office (3 days office-based) with flexibility
My client is a family-owned licensed apparel company passionate about creating high-quality, on-trend products for a diverse portfolio of licensed brands. Our collaborative culture values creativity, accountability, and long-term relationships with partners, licensors, and employees. You’ll work in a creative, collaborative environment with opportunities for growth, travel, and involvement in exciting licensed projects.
The Role
They are recruiting for a talented and experienced Childrenswear Design Manager to lead a dynamic design team. This is an exciting opportunity to shape creative vision into commercially successful, licensor-approved apparel collections.
What You’ll Do:
Provide strategic direction and hands-on leadership across multi-product categories
Manage and mentor a large design team, fostering a positive and supportive culture
Liaise with licensors, retailers, and internal teams to ensure brand alignment
Oversee creative briefs, quality control, and timely delivery
Stay ahead of market trends and drive innovation in seasonal collections
What We’re Looking For:
Degree in Fashion Design or similar
Minimum 6 years’ experience in the licensing industry
At least 3 years managing a large design team
Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop)
Strong knowledge of fabrics, techniques, and manufacturing processes
Buyer - Homewares
Leeds
West Yorkshire
Homewares Buyer
West Yorkshire (hybrid working)
The Homewares Buyer will lead and develop the home offering across textiles, décor, soft furnishings, lighting and furniture. You will blend own-brand product development with off-the-shelf sourcing to build ranges that feel unique for the customer: eclectic, colourful, story-driven and remarkable. This is not a traditional corporate buying role — it's creative, varied, hands-on and ideal for someone who loves autonomy, pace and making things happen.
Key Responsibilities
Range Development & Product Creation
Create exciting, commercially viable homewares ranges across multiple categories.
Drive a mix of own-brand product development (textiles strongly preferred) and bought-in product selection.
Continually research trends, themes, materials and competitor activity to identify growth opportunities.
Present proposals and range builds to senior leadership for sign-off. Supplier Management & Sourcing
Build and maintain strong supplier relationships globally.
Lead supplier meetings — develop product, negotiate cost prices, minimum quantities and delivery dates.
Assess quality, sustainability, compliance and ethical considerations across all products. Trading, Planning & Critical Path
Own the critical path end-to-end, ensuring all products launch on time.
Place all initial orders in line with forecasts and targets.
Maintain 100% accuracy in product data, costing and style setup.
Analyse performance to maximise opportunities and mitigate risks. Cross-Functional Collaboration Work with Creative, Photography and Design teams to deliver brilliant online and catalogue imagery.
Liaise with Digital Trading, Web Merchandising and Marketing to optimise product presentation. Support Direct Mail themes with cohesive storytelling and product selection.
Present your range to external partners for wholesale and marketplace opportunities. Leadership & Team Development Lead, support and develop the Buyers Assistant, nurturing skills and building capability.
Person Specification
Minimum 3 years’ experience in buying for homewares, fashion or a related consumer product category.
Demonstrable experience in product development and/or working with manufacturers (textiles advantageous).
Strong commercial and analytical abilities to optimise trading performance.
Confident negotiator with global supplier experience.
Experience in multi-channel retail
Experience in wholesaling or marketplace exposure.
Assistant Merchandiser
Birmingham
West Midlands
Assistant Merchandiser
Birmingham
Are you looking for stability and the chance to work with a great company going through the most exciting time? Our client is an amazing ladieswear fashion retailer who are going through an exciting period of growth and are growing the Merchandise function, they are actively recruiting for an Assistant Retail Merchandiser.
Tasks, duties & responsibilities:
• To prepare reporting and present in Weekly and Monthly Trading Meetings.
• Drives the trade model to their area.
• Reviews Daily and Weekly Sales performance actions where required.
• Reviews over and under performance at product level and drives trading actions to maximise potential and minimise risk.
• Seeds and manages a WSSI by accurately forecasting demand, OTB, returns and margin.
• Takes ownership of the critical path and takes appropriate action on issues when they arise.
• As well as being competent in preparing trading reports/packs will also make recommendations for reporting improvements across the B&M function and implement.
• Fully aware of the principles and contribution to the overall business strategy, processes and department development.
• Builds effective and open relationships with all members of the buying and merchandising team, based on reliable, accurate and relevant data.
• Ensures productive relationship between merchandising function and all other business areas to ensure goals achieved, specifically the design and accounts teams.
• Delivers key information at the right time, to the right people, and presents when necessary.
Junior Merchandiser
Birmingham
West Midlands
Junior Merchandiser
Birmingham
Our client is an established ladies multi-channel fashion retailer based in the west midlands area and are looking for a talented retail merchandiser to join and support the merchandising team. The company designs and develops Ladieswear for a broad range of customers, seeking the correct look and fit of all ages to ensure that the product fits beautifully, and performs well.
Job Description:
• To prepare reporting and present in weekly and monthly trading meetings.
• Drive the trade model
• Reviews daily and weekly sales performance actions where required.
• Reviews over and under performance at product level and drives trading actions to maximise potential and minimise risk.
• Seeds and manages a WSSI by accurately forecasting demand, OTB, returns and margin.
• Takes ownership of the critical path and takes appropriate action on issues when they arise.
• As well as being competent in preparing trading reports/packs will also make recommendations for reporting improvements across the B&M function and implement.
• Fully aware of the principles and contribution to the overall business strategy. Processes and department development
• Builds effective and open relationships with all members of the buying and merchandising team, based on reliable, accurate and relevant data.
• Ensures productive relationship between merchandising function and all other business areas to ensure goals achieved, specifically the design and accounts teams.
• Delivers key information at the right time, to the right people, and presents when necessary.
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