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About the Role

This 12-month contract role involves developing and delivering seasonal colour and print palettes, using insights from fashion, art, design, and competitor analysis to influence the collection and support the brand's creative direction.

Responsibilities

• Provide inspirational and strategic leadership to the design team and wider COS functions, ensuring alignment with the brand’s vision and long-term goals.
• Manage seasonal direction, research, and workflow through to final delivery, ensuring alignment with the design calendar.
• Lead the creation of seasonal colour and print palettes, using research from fashion, art, design, and competitor analysis to deliver relevant and directional content.
• Work closely with design, buying, and production teams to integrate trend insights into the collection, ensuring consistency and relevance across departments.
• Manage and develop the creative team (colour and trend) guiding them through recruitment, performance, and growth while maintaining high creative standards.
• Condense trend research into clear, actionable insights and present findings through seasonal workshops and internal presentations, ensuring creative strategies are understood and implemented across the business.

Requirements

• Significant experience in a senior creative research or trend-building role within the fashion industry, either in-house or an agency environment.
• Strong ability to translate brand vision into forward-looking creative strategies, combining trend forecasting, cultural insight and commercial awareness.
• Proven expertise in both long- and short-term trend forecasting, with the ability to shape elevated colour and print direction.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally, ensuring creative direction is consistently realised across design, buying and production.
• Strong leadership skills, with ability to build a high-performing, engaged team while fostering a culture of creativity, accountability and continuous learning.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, able to present clear, compelling ideas that influence and align stakeholders.
• A portfolio or examples of work most suited to the COS design aesthetic must be included.

Skills

• Trend forecasting
• Colour palette development
• Print development
• Creative strategy
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Team management
• Communication
• Storytelling

Location

• London

Work Type

• Full-time
• Temporary
• 12-month contract
• Onsite

Experience Level

• Senior

Benefits

• 25% staff discount usable on all H&M Group brands in stores and online
• H&M Incentive Program – HIP
• Up to 25 days holiday
• Annual health checks
• Pension scheme
• Discounts on various activities and financial/lifestyle products via benefits hub
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted gym membership
• Employee assistance via retail trust
• Private health & dental care

About the Company

• COS offers a wardrobe of ready-to-wear and accessories rooted in exceptional quality and lasting design.
• The creative soul of the brand is fuelled by a deep connection to modern culture, dynamic global cities and compelling fashion movements.
• With an emphasis on expert craftsmanship, innovation and materiality, collections are created with a mindful approach, seamlessly blending contemporary and timeless.

Equal Opportunity

• At COS we’re determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation.
• Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge, experience and ideas.
• Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world.
• Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process.