Design Manager - F&F Ladies Nightwear (Parental Leave Cover) Part-Time

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

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About the role

A unique opportunity has arisen for a Mid-level Design Manager to join our Ladies Nightwear team on a Part-Time basis (9 month Parental Leave Cover).

We are looking for a strong experienced designer for our Ladies Nightwear team, ideally an expert in the Nightwear/Intimates market. We are looking for someone with a great eye for detail and a strong creative handwriting, with a proven track record of developing commercially successful product.

You will be a strong influencer and be great at taking team members and managers with you on the creative journey.  Having a clear and logical approach to moving forward the department’s creative strategy with seasonal presentations to key stakeholders.

The successful candidate will have a collaborative approach to working with internal teams across the business and external stakeholders. Building strong relationships to get the best for the department and working collaboratively with the seasonal team on key events. You will need to be highly motivated and a team player who thrives on a fast-paced fashion driven department.

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. Please talk to the Hiring Manager about how they can support you.

You will be responsible for

• Spotting the latest trends, communicating them with confidence and clarity to the design and buying teams along with any key leadership stakeholders, and translating these into commercial designs that our customers will love.
• Setting the graphics direction for each range and working closely with our Graphic Designers to develop original prints and artworks that our customers will want to buy.
• Working closely with your Buying, Merchandising and Technical colleagues to ensure ranges are commercial and balanced.
• Compiling accurate technical brief packs and working closely with your suppliers to achieve “first sample, right sample”. Ensuring sample comments are fed back to suppliers in a timely manner.
• Understanding best and worst lines to influence seasonal strategy and product opportunities. Pushing design and fashionability forward, whilst problem-solving constraints of costings.
• Owning the design critical path and supporting trend, development and production critical paths to ensure business deadlines are met.

You will need

• Proficiency in designing using Adobe lllustrator & Photoshop. Powerpoint and 3D Design (CLO) software experience is a bonus.
• Comprehensive understanding of garment construction, fabric & printing techniques. The ability to created detailed technical briefsheets with excellent attention to detail, to communicate your design vision clearly to your team & supply base.
• A team player with great interpersonal and communication skills, ability to build strong relationships with colleagues and to be able to collaborate.
• Ability to mentor and develop an Assistant Designer
• Amazing organisational skills. Ability to prioritise and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to manage the whole design and development process from trend research and sample development through to range-building and fits.
• Proven previous experience designing Ladies Nightwear for the UK market.
• Excellent commercial and market awareness and innovative thinking in research.
• Proven experience producing new and innovative designs to fast-paced deadlines, with a strong hit rate.

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About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.