Designer (Menswear Outerwear)

Company Description:

The Barbour story began in 1894 in South Shields in the North East of England. Founder John Barbour began supplying oilskins and other garments to protect the growing community of sailors, fishermen and dockers. Still family owned and now fifth generation, Barbour HQ remains in South Shields. Under the leadership of Chairman Dame Margaret Barbour, Barbour has grown into a lifestyle brand sold in over 55 countries worldwide including Europe, the US and Asia offering a wardrobe of stylish functional clothing, footwear and accessories inspired by the unique values of the British countryside. The iconic Barbour Bedale and Barbour Beaufort wax jackets continue to be made by hand in the factory in South Shields. In 202, Barbour launched Wax for Life, an overarching name for all of Barbour's wax services designed to encourage customers to extend the life of their wax garments. Wax for Life includes re-waxing and repairs (first introduced in 1921) and Barbour Re-Loved an upcycling circularity initiative. Each year over 70,000 wax garments are sent back to Barbour globally to be repaired, rewaxed or altered.

Position Overview:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Designer to join our Menswear Outerwear team here at our Head Office in South Shields on a temporary, Maternity Cover basis. As Designer, you will be responsible for the design and development of seasonal ranges of Menswear Outerwear in line with critical path deadlines.

The expectation for this role is 4 days onsite based at our Head Office in South Shields and 1 day of home-working.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Create products taking into account features, price points, margin and intro dates, and with reference to market trends and relevance to Barbour.
• Deliver product in line with the seasonal objectives for each category and target markets.
• Design ranges in line with the Barbour brand DNA, following the seasonal brief.
• Work to a seasonal critical path for product launch.
• Through regular market visits and range reviews with key representatives, demonstrate an understanding of they key markets in which to grow sales.
• Create an accurate, detailed specification for each product suitable for global manufacture.
• Create appropriate presentations and branding packs to communicate the range direction.
• Have the ability to progress product lines and ranges by creating comprehensive mood and colour boards in line with the Barbour brand DNA.
• Drive design development of key shapes, fabrics and relevant new colours with the fabric development team for each season.
• Work closely with the technical team and manufacturing base, to create prototype and selling samples to the required fit and specification, in line with critical path deadlines.
• Investigate and propose potential new suppliers where necessary and work directly with manufacturers to develop new seasonal concept prototypes.
• Provide accurate information on all products to the Marketing and Ecommerce teams.
• Prepare all product lines and product presentation packs for sales Launch.
• Have the ability to present all ranges in detail to the sales team and distributors.
• Manage special, make up packages for key accounts adhering to the business-critical path and process.
• Design and develop collab collections in line with internal critical path.
• Undertake any other reasonable activity as may be required by senior management.