Menswear Designer

Menswear Designer position at Seasalt, creating considered, elegant and commercially successful collections that align with Seasalt’s modern yet timeless aesthetic, with a focus on jersey, sustainability, and quality. The role requires a deep understanding of effortless sophistication, high-quality craftsmanship, and functional yet refined design.

Requirements

• Developing seasonal collections that embody a refined, intelligent and wearable aesthetic in line with the brand’s handwriting.
• Designing for menswear with a strong awareness of fabric, fit, drape, and silhouette and proportion to ensure effortless wearability for the customer.
• Sourcing and developing premium, sustainable and profitable fabrications, textures, and finishes that align with the brand’s ethos of quality and longevity.
• Exploring innovative techniques that reduce waste, optimise material usage, and enhance circularity.
• Creating precise technical drawings, design packs and specifications for design development samples.
• Working closely with the supply base to refine design, fit, proportion and detailing, ensuring a seamless handover to Technical.
• Leading during fittings and development sampling, ensuring each garment meets the highest standards of design, quality and craftsmanship.
• Partnering with the Design, Buying and Merchandising teams to balance creativity with commerciality, ensuring a cohesive visual narrative that will appear across campaigns.
• Presenting and articulating design concepts to key stakeholders, ensuring alignment with the brand vision, including branding considerations where appropriate.
• Communicating clearly with suppliers and internal teams, ensuring smooth workflow and efficient problem-solving in line with the critical path and updating PLM (Product Lifecycle Management).
• Managing and developing high-performing Assistants, fostering creative excellence, clear ideas and effective decision making.

Benefits

• 34 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing with length of service
• Attractive 50% employee discount
• Flexible benefits allowance to personalise your benefits package
• Private Medical Scheme including 24/7 virtual GP
• Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme through Retail Trust with 24/7 support
• Pension plan with generous 7% employer contributions
• Life assurance programme
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Flexible working opportunities with our hybrid working approach
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Do Good Things with our two days per year paid volunteering opportunities
• Employee networks to develop and provide support to our people, including the Inclusion & Belonging Network
• 100s of savings on top retailers and gym memberships through our discount hub