Next Plc
Womenswear Loungewear & Nightwear Designer - Next Sourcing - 12 Months Fixed Term Contract
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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.
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 [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/creating-standout-portfolio-next-how-show-us-your-design-espinasse-3amoe/?trackingId=eq4xVeShTA2xZ4DcUWUxmw%3D%3D] 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.
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!
- 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
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Support During the Application Process
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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