Senior Ladies Knitwear Designer
Location: London
Salary: £40k - £45k
Senior Ladies Knitwear Designer
Position: Senior Ladies Knitwear Designer
Location: London
Salary: £40k - £45k
Job Reference No: D016
Recruiting Consultant: Dani
Consultant Tel: 0161 511 0655
Email: dani@dwrecruitment.co.uk
Details
Senior Ladies’ Knitwear Designer
We’re partnering with a highly successful, design-led retailer to recruit a Senior Ladies’ Knitwear Designer for an exciting opportunity within a fast-paced and collaborative menswear team.
This is a role for a confident, trend-driven designer who combines creative vision with commercial awareness, and who thrives on bringing innovative knitwear concepts to life from initial research through to production.
Role Overview
- As Senior Ladies’ Knitwear Designer, you will play a key role in shaping the direction of the ladies’ knitwear collection, delivering commercially relevant designs that feel current, premium, and on-brand.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading in-depth trend research, identifying emerging colours, yarns, stitches, silhouettes, and seasonal themes.
- Translating trend insight into strong, wearable knitwear concepts with a clear commercial focus.
- Conducting regular market and competitor analysis to ensure the range remains fresh, relevant, and competitive.
- Producing high-quality CADs and design packs that clearly communicate design intent.
- Working closely with Far East suppliers, sending clear and accurate tech packs and managing development through sampling to final sign-off.
- Collaborating cross-functionally with buying, product development, and technical teams to deliver ranges on time and to cost.
About You
- Proven experience as a Ladies’ Knitwear Designer, ideally at Senior level or ready to step up.
- Strong technical knowledge of yarns, stitch structures, gauges, and garment construction.
- A commercial mindset with the ability to balance trend-led design with customer appeal.
- Confident working with overseas factories and managing multiple styles through development.
- Highly organised with excellent communication, presentation, and time-management skills.
- Passionate about menswear and excited to help shape a modern, successful knitwear offer.