Senior Knitwear Designer

**Senior Knitwear Designer
Full-Time (4 days in office, 1 day from home)
Kingston-on-Thames**

Crew Clothing Company was founded in Salcombe in 1993. Today Crew
is a great British brand, and our success lies in our authentic passion for
producing great looking, well made clothes. We now have more than 130 stores and a thriving website, and the business continues to grow.

Our people are at the heart of our company. With a passion for
exceptional service, and a love for our product, our team is dedicated to
offering the best customer experience – nothing is too much trouble.

**Purpose of the role:
**To be an integral part of the
Crew design team, responsible for knitwear product design of the
brand, overseeing the delivery of the
range in partnership with the brand product / buying teams.
To work within the Management
Team to deliver the design strategy and develop ways to build the brand,
strengthen market position and increase profit.

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Works

as an integral part of the Crew design team, operates as a strategic
designer, demonstrating best practice.

• Builds

effective relationships and Influences effectively at all levels to
inspire and debate key issues in order to get the best commercial results

• Demonstrates

full ownership and responsibility for the knitwear and jersey ranges.

• A

brand ambassador who represents the brand externally with credibility,
confidence and professionalism, ensuring positive outcomes for the brand
in terms of profile and authority.

• Can

work on ad hoc projects

• Offers

advice and helps find solutions to the junior members of the team Acts as the driving force

• Provides strong and consistent product, balancing

the range to include development of seasonal key looks, fashion items and
essential pieces appropriate for the Crew customer

• Works closely with design director, HOFs and

B&M to generate and communicate key product and brand ‘handwriting’, continuously critiques and develops new ideas to
move the brand forward to stay ahead of the competition

• Displays an in-depth, customer-focused knowledge of

market and trends

• Contributes to the successful management of

product-focused aspects of key events such as range sign off, SMS

• Continually

drive improvements and ensure maximum efficiency and high performance

• Design

within a price architecture to deliver best value

Key Skills & Experience:

• Excellent

creative flair with the ability to drive knitwear and
predict forthcoming moods, trends, themes

• Creative

thinker with the ability to develop the full potential of the department
from projects and to take advantage of new developments

• Combines

a creative, innovative approach with commercial ideas

• Self-starter

• Strong

team player

• The

proven ability to drive performance of external as well as internal teams

• Enthusiasm,

energy and determination to achieve results

• Excellent

interpersonal skills – being able to quickly establish effective
relationships at all levels (internal and external) with gravitas and
strength

• Strong

and convincing presentation skills – able to get ideas across quickly and
effectively and gain relevant buy-in and support

• Strong

technical skills – from idea generation to collation to output of work

• Working

within budget guidelines