Fashion & Lifestyle Recruitment

Need to recruit someone for your fashion and lifestyle business?

Encore Recruitment helps brands, retailers, suppliers and importers find and hire people across buying, merchandising, design, technical, product, production, sales, marketing, HR and operations. That includes small businesses and organisations employing thousands of people.

A job title tells us who to look for. Understanding what your business needs tells us who to recommend.

Key Takeaways

• Recruit the Fashion and Lifestyle roles your business needs: From junior to senior level across Account Management, Buying, Design, Garment Technology, HR, Import Merchandising, Marketing, Operations & Support, Pattern Cutting, Product Development, Production and Retail Merchandising.
• A recommendation should mean something: It means we've understood what you need, assessed who could help, and recommended someone we believe you'd want to work with.
• Recruit for the business, not just the vacancy: The same role can mean something different in a brand, retailer, supplier or importer. What you need the person to do shapes the search.

Fashion and Lifestyle Roles We Recruit

We recruit across buying, merchandising, design, technical, product, production, sales, marketing, HR and operations, from junior to senior level.

Each role links to a dedicated recruitment page covering responsibilities, career levels, salaries and how we recruit for that area.

• Account Manager Recruitment→
• Buyer Recruitment→
• Designer Recruitment→
• Garment Technologist Recruitment→
• HR Recruitment→
• Import Merchandiser Recruitment→
• Marketing Recruitment→
• Operations & Support Recruitment→
• Pattern Cutter Recruitment→
• Product Developer Recruitment→
• Production Recruitment→
• Retail Merchandiser Recruitment→

Fashion and Lifestyle Businesses We Recruit For

Encore Recruitment works with brands, retailers, suppliers and importers across fashion, accessories, footwear, beauty and homeware.

Two businesses can recruit for the same role and need different things. A Buyer may be recruited to develop a new category, strengthen an existing range or replace knowledge leaving the business. A Garment Technologist working for a supplier may manage the technical requirements of several retail customers, while a brand may need someone responsible for its own product standards and supplier relationships.

The reason you're recruiting shapes the search too. Someone may be leaving. Growth may be stretching the existing team. Or you may need experience your team doesn't currently have.

The title gives the search a starting point. What you need that person to do gives it direction.

Based in Macclesfield, Cheshire, Encore Recruitment recruits across the UK, including Manchester, Leeds, Leicester, Birmingham and London.

How Recruitment Works at Encore

Recruitment at Encore Recruitment starts with understanding what you need someone to do. That gives the search direction and helps Encore Recruitment decide who is worth assessing and ultimately recommending you consider for the position.

Relevant experience gives Encore Recruitment a reason to consider someone. It doesn't automatically make them a recommendation.

A recommendation should mean something.

Our Recommendation Standard brings together what we've learned about the business, the role and the person before a recommendation is made. It's part of our Belonging-Driven Recruitment approach: understanding the person, the role and the business, and considering the potential for people to work well and belong.

Encore Recruitment's involvement continues through the interviews, decisions and onboarding that follow.

Read Fashion & Lifestyle Recruitment for Clients for what working with Encore Recruitment involves, our 5-stage recruitment process for the full recruitment journey, or our Recommendation Standard for the guidelines that sit behind our recommendations.

FAQ

Do you recruit permanent, temporary or contract Roles?

Encore Recruitment recruits permanent, fixed-term and freelance employees across the UK. Encore Recruitment does not recruit temporary workers.

What Are Encore Recruitment's Fees and Terms?

Encore Recruitment's fee is 15% of the agreed starting salary up to and including £24,999, and 20% from £25,000. Encore Recruitment invoices on the candidate's start date, with payment due within 14 days.

A sliding refund scale applies if the person leaves within the agreed period. Encore Recruitment has only issued one refund since October 2020. Encore Recruitment will provide the full terms, including the refund scale, for you to review before the search begins.

What Happens Before I Instruct Encore Recruitment?

Before a search begins, Encore Recruitment will talk through the role, why you're recruiting and what you need the person to do. We'll explain how Encore Recruitment works and the terms that apply, so you can decide whether you want Encore Recruitment to take the search forward.

Looking to Recruit?

Submit a Vacancy→ for a role you need to fill, or Contact Us→. We'll arrange a conversation to understand what you're looking for and whether we can help.