Print and Pattern Textile Designer; FTC

Print and Pattern Textile Designer (12mth FTC) Design Huddersfield (Head Office) Overview

At Mamas & Papas we are passionate about creating a distinctive, illustrative handwriting through emotive & storytelling prints, designed in harmony for our beautifully innovative products.

Through some exciting news... we're now looking to recruit for a PRINT & PATTERN DESIGNER on a 12 month fixed term contract (maternity cover) specialising in textiles to join our innovative Mamas & Papas Softs Goods Design team. This Designer role, to develop unique in-house prints & graphics, specifically for textiles & the complexities of textiles, whilst remaining true to our Mamas & Papas DNA and handwriting with our recognised attention to detail & premium quality.

As a Print and Pattern Designer within Mamas & Papas you will be a highly creative individual, with an immense passion for creating emotive graphics, interesting design repeats, artworks & illustrations that can be used across clothing, nursery interiors & other textile equipment. Reporting into the Head of Soft Goods, you will play a key role in defining the textile print handwriting for the Mamas and Papas brand around the world.

Including researching trends, pulling new season prints together, print to textile workings, creating specification packs and working with buyers & suppliers to produce products that truly fit our customers lifestyle.

For those in the know, this is a rare opportunity. You don’t have to come from nursery textiles, nor baby clothing print & pattern, but a passion for our category is key and that proven experience & ability in producing premium, defining, print & pattern on textile design is key.

In return we offer a creative, award winning, passionate environment, where you can really make a difference and put joy on the faces of an incredible community of new, hopeful & expectant parents around the world through the designs you produce.

Interested? Then if so, simply take those amazing first steps to APPLY NOW
, sending through your CV & your Print & Pattern portfolio or Portfolio links.

- NOTE:

On our Mamas & Papas careers site, it may be easier to attach a portfolio, and if over 28MB there is also a section to attach a link to your portfolio.

We at Mamas & Papas are committed to championing people of all cultures, ethnicities and gender preferences, and in celebrating diversity in all its forms through our campaigns, recruitment and our actions. We strongly believe in the power of inclusivity to help us all move forward in life.

We're a business that cares. Here's just some of our benefits on offer;

• THIS IS A 12 MONTH FIXED TERM CONTRACT
• 33 days holiday, increasing up to 40 with service.
• Buy & Sell holiday schemes
• Employer pension contribution from day 1 enrolment.
• Significant staff discounts for family & friends from our shops & online
• Ongoing offers & discounts across a variety of external organisations
• Subsidised health & critical illness cover and insurances
• Supportive family related leave policies (including company enhanced pay for maternity, IVF & Fertility, surrogacy, paternity, adoption, shared parental leave)
• Supportive Foster Care & Carers Leave offering
• Support for Loss and Bereavement
• A Menopause Friendly Employer
• Employee Recognition and Appreciation Schemes
• At Mamas & Papas, we’re a business for the future. Every day, we help to welcome a new generation of children into the world, and we want them to grow up in a world that’s sustainable – one that’s full of opportunity and hope.

...Oh, and a great bunch of people to work with too.

We also operate at Head Office:

• Hybrid flexi working of 3 days in the office.
• Flexi-time schemes based around core working hours whether in the office, or working from home
• Plus, free car parking, Prayer & Contemplation room, subsidised canteen, free tea & coffee, Games & TV rooms & much more.

(NB*: All benefits subject to individual schemes criteria & terms and type of contract employed under)