Senior Designer - Womenswear Jersey

Senior Designer - Womenswear Jersey

As a Senior Designer at TU Clothing, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of our customer proposition by bridging creativity with commercial strategy. You’ll translate brand vision, trend direction and consumer insight into collections that are both inspiring and commercially successful, ensuring relevance across customer segments while remaining aligned to business objectives.

This role requires expertise in womenswear jersey design and a proven background designing within this space.

This role combines high‑level creative expertise with strong commercial acumen, trend forecasting, and strategic thinking. You’ll influence product direction, raise creative standards and help bring ideas to life in ways that surprise and delight customers while remaining deliverable at scale.

You’ll shape and influence product strategy and seasonal design direction for your area, ensuring creative output supports commercial objectives and customer needs. This includes defining and delivering seasonal concepts, design theories and mood boards, clearly articulating creative direction and presenting confidently to key stakeholders. You’ll use market research, trend forecasting and customer insight to interpret emerging behaviours and translate them into relevant, commercially viable design opportunities.

The role also contributes to macro‑trend research, informing wider business strategy and seasonal storytelling. You’ll ensure design integrity throughout the full product lifecycle, from concept through to final production—maintaining TU brand DNA, quality standards and deliverability—while mentoring and influencing the wider design team.

You’re an experienced, commercially minded designer who can balance creativity with delivery. You’re confident presenting ideas, influencing stakeholders and working at pace in a fast‑moving environment. You’re curious, trend‑aware and strategically minded, with a strong passion for product and a drive to continually raise the bar on quality, relevance and customer appeal. To be considered for this role, you must have demonstrable experience operating at Senior Designer level or equivalent, with clear accountability for trend interpretation, product development and influencing design direction within a commercial fashion environment.

• Expert CAD and hand‑sketching skills, producing clear, accurate and commercially effective design outputs
• Expertise in womenswear design
• Strong understanding of fabric performance, garment construction and manufacturing methods
• Proven ability to balance creative vision with commercial viability, delivering trend‑led designs aligned to business objectives
• Confident presenter with strong influencing skills, able to articulate design concepts and seasonal direction clearly
• Experience developing detailed tech packs to support accurate sampling and production
• Strong planning and critical path management skills, ensuring design milestones are delivered on time
• Demonstrable experience in Lingerie and Swimwear design

We offer a range of benefits including a colleague discount of 10% (increasing to 15% at points during the year) on Sainsbury’s, Argos, TU and Habitat shopping, and a pensions scheme and life cover. You may be eligible for a performance‑related bonus of up to 10% of salary and a yearly holiday allowance with the option to purchase an additional week.

Additional benefits include season ticket loans, cycle‑to‑work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance, access to discounts from hundreds of other retailers, an employee assistance programme and supportive leave policies: up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). for details on terms and conditions.