Working Pattern: 5 days a week onsite, with core hours between 8am to 6pm.
The Role
As a Womenswear Designer (Loungewear & Nightwear) at Next Sourcing, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the visual and aesthetic identity of our upcoming collections. This is a fast-paced, highly creative 12-month Fixed-Term Contract (FTC) with an ideal start date in October, where your designs will directly impact what lands on the high street.
Working closely with our in-house buying, sourcing, and supplier teams, you will turn emerging global trends into commercial, elevated products that resonate deeply with the Next customer.
Next Sourcing are at the heart of finding, developing and delivering the products our customers love, wear and use every day. Located across the globe, our Next Sourcing teams specialise in all different parts of the sourcing operation, from design and technology to product development.
What You’ll Take On
- Design original, standout concepts across Loungewear and Nightwear, reacting quickly to design briefs and producing fast-turnaround, commercial ranges.
- Research and translate global fashion trends, fabrications, and colour palettes into elevated, cosy, and stylish products tailored to the Next customer.
- Utilise excellent hand-painting techniques alongside advanced CAD work to build versatile, production-ready prints, graphics, and garment designs.
- Collaborate daily with buyers, sourcing teams, and external factories to ensure collections are delivered on time, within cost parameters, and to exact technical specifications.
- Drive both core line development and project-based capsule collections, multi-tasking effectively to meet critical path deadlines.
What You’ll Bring
- A beautiful, feminine yet cool design handwriting that perfectly balances comfort with contemporary style.
- A proven track record (retailer or supplier background) designing Loungewear, Nightwear, or relevant apparel for a high volume, similar sized fashion retailer.
- Expert proficiency in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, with strong CAD skills to bring diverse artistic concepts and garment shapes to life.
- A strong graphics and print eye, ideally supported by hand-painting ability to create unique, in-house textile designs.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with a confident approach to working with cross-functional teams, external suppliers, and factories.
Superb organisation skills and the resilience to stay calm, focused, and creative during peak, high-pressure deadlines.
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Portfolios
To help us get a feel for your style, please attach a digital portfolio to your application. We are looking for work that demonstrates a sharp eye for the future of Nightwear & Loungewear , how your ideas can be commercially viable for NEXT, and showcases your direct design and CAD work. To help you put your best foot forward, we’ve put together a few top tips on what makes a portfolio stand out to our team.
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.
At NEXT, we believe the best work happens when there are no barriers to collaboration. That’s why we are a Google-powered workspace. From your very first day, you’ll be using the full Google Workspace suite; Docs, Drive, and Meet, to stay connected and move fast.
If your previous experience is rooted in other software suites, don’t worry! We’ll point you to a digital Google toolkit the moment you join, packed with handy guides and insider tips to help you transition smoothly and hit the ground running.
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You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 44,000 people across the Next group. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 450 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 80 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!
