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About the Role

The Colour Designer shapes Canterbury's seasonal colour identity and supports the consistent application of colour across product ranges, ensuring product built for strength, movement, and team identity.

Responsibilities

• Create seasonal colour palettes, mood boards, and product colourways for Canterbury ranges.
• Monitor colour trends, market activity, and consumer shifts to inform colour decisions.
• Ensure colour consistency across fabrics, trims, graphics, and product categories.
• Partner with designers and development teams to translate concepts into production-ready colourways.
• Work with suppliers to manage colour approvals, lab dips, prototypes, and issue resolution.
• Support merchandising and marketing teams with colour storytelling and product imagery needs.
• Consider durability, wash performance, sustainability, and quality when making colour recommendations.
• Maintain accurate colour documentation and support PLM data where required.
• Maintain design documentation, colour, material, and graphic handovers so Development and Sourcing can progress work accurately and on time.
• Use prototype reviews, fit sessions, and sample feedback to refine product detail while protecting the intended design handwriting.
• Develop seasonal colour palettes, colourways, and colour narratives that support brand and product stories.
• Monitor colour, consumer, and competitor trends to inform commercially relevant colour decisions.
• Partner with Design, Materials, and Development to manage colour feasibility, consistency, and approvals.
• Maintain accurate colour information across design files, PLM, and seasonal documentation.

Requirements

• Experience in colour design, textile design, trend forecasting, or product colour application.
• Strong knowledge of colour theory, fabric behaviour, and finishing techniques.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite.
• Ability to translate trends into commercially successful colour palettes.
• Excellent attention to detail and a strong eye for consistency and quality.
• Strong communication skills and confidence working across design, development, and supplier teams.
• Interest in sustainability and responsible colour / finishing approaches.
• Strong craft, taste level, and technical curiosity, with the ability to turn brand DNA and trend insight into practical product solutions.
• CLO3D or PLM experience is desirable.

Skills

• Colour design
• Textile design
• Trend forecasting
• Product colour application
• Colour theory
• Fabric behaviour
• Finishing techniques
• Adobe Creative Suite
• CLO3D
• PLM
• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Colour storytelling

Location

• Office

Work Type

• Hybrid working
• Full-time

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive salary

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus
• Flexible start and finish times
• Generous holiday allowance
• Product discounts
• Sample sales
• Enhanced family-friendly policies
• Healthcare support
• Gym and fitness discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric car scheme

About the Company

• Pentland Brands is a global family business behind some of the world’s most iconic active and lifestyle brands.
• Canterbury is the world’s original rugby brand, built on more than a century of sporting heritage, technical product knowledge and deep connection to the game.
• Founded in New Zealand in 1904, Canterbury creates performance kit, training apparel, casualwear and fan product for players, teams and supporters who live and breathe rugby.
• It is a brand shaped by strength, durability and belonging, supporting people on and off the pitch, from grassroots clubs to the highest levels of the sport.
• Joining Canterbury means becoming part of a team that cares deeply about rugby product and the people who wear it: how it fits, how it moves, how it performs under pressure, how it represents team identity, and how it brings players, coaches, and fans together.

Equal Opportunity

• This vacancy is a newly created role as part of organisational changes. Final appointment will depend upon the outcome of consultation processes and affected employees will have priority for consideration.