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Menswear Garment Designer - CLEENS
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Working Pattern: Typically 5 days in the office, with core hours flexible between 8am-6pm.
The Role
CLEENS is redefining modern menswear with clean silhouettes, elevated streetwear aesthetics, and premium everyday essentials. As a Menswear Designer for CLEENS at NEXT, you’ll be at the heart of driving the brand’s visual identity and product strategy.
You’ll translate emerging urban trends, culture, and high street movements into commercially viable, high quality menswear garment collections that resonate with our modern, fashion-conscious customer. Working closely with our Buying, Merchandising, and Product Tech teams, you will turn creative concepts into commercial bestsellers.
What You’ll Take On
- Design & Concept Development: Research trend forecasts, street style, and cultural shifts to build cohesive, forward thinking seasonal menswear concepts and colour palettes.
- Collection Creation: Produce detailed, accurate CAD drawings, tech packs, and spec sheets ready for global supply chain production.
- Collaborative Working: Partner closely with Buyers and Merchandisers to ensure range plans strike the perfect balance between high end aesthetic appeal and commercial viability.
- Sample & Fit Reviews: Attend fit sessions with Product Technologists to review prototypes, refine fits, and ensure the signature CLEENS quality and silhouette are maintained.
- Market Awareness: Keep a close eye on competitor activity, market performance, and sales data to continually identify new product opportunities and growth areas.
What You’ll Bring
- Menswear Passion: A strong background or proven track record in menswear or older boys design, with a deep understanding of streetwear trends, contemporary tailoring, and modern casualwear.
- Technical Proficiency: Advanced skills in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop) to produce clean, high spec CADs and graphics.
- Commercial Acumen: A sharp eye for fashion coupled with a practical understanding of key volume drivers, price points, and target demographics.
- Organisation & Agility: Excellent time management and organisational skills to handle busy peak periods, manage multiple ranges simultaneously, and hit strict critical path deadlines.
- Strong Communication: Great interpersonal skills with the confidence to articulate design ideas, present ranges to stakeholders, and build strong relationships across teams.
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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 Menswear design for CLEENS, 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 here.
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: here.
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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About NEXT
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!
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- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Profit-related bonus - based on company performance
- Management share options
- Company car or car allowance
- Private medical insurance
- Sharesave scheme - make savings from your net pay to buy NEXT shares at a discount
- Pension - fixed contribution rates from both an employer and employee perspective, but you're also able to make additional voluntary contributions (AVCs) if you wish to save more.
- Life assurance
- Group income protection
- Wagestream - helping you make the most out of your money
- Salary finance - offers access to affordable loans repaid through salary, simple savings and free financial education.
- 25% staff discount on most NEXT products - plus discount on other products
- Direct to work - NEXT orders delivered free to the office for collection
- VIP sale - early access to the NEXT sale
- Access to NEXT staff shops
- Octopus energy - like cycle-to-work, but for electric vehicles
- Free parking (excluding London locations)
- Travel2NEXT - bus services dependent on location
- On site dining facilities (excluding London locations)
- National and local discounts on goods and services - this includes things like discounted cinema tickets
- Wellhub - includes access to discounted gym membership
- Simply health - a healthcare subscription service
- Aviva Digicare Workplace+ healthcare service - 7 Free services including Digital GP appointments and an annual health check.
- Onsite GP - Leicester Head Office
- Onsite Physio - Leicester Head Office
- A range of dedicated 3rd party wellbeing partners
- Free eye testing - voucher to use at specific locations
Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change.
Support for Candidates
We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email headoffice_careers@next.co.uk (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.
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