Senior Ladies Knitwear Designer - #2193401

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 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 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 knitwear and excited to help shape a modern, successful knitwear team.

Will also consider a Central London based Designer.