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About the Role
Design technical outdoor apparel built for movement, weather, and real-world performance. This role will play an important part in shaping the future of women's outdoor apparel at Berghaus, helping to build collections that resonate with today's outdoor consumer through a balance of performance, style, versatility, and authenticity.
Responsibilities
- Design innovative women's outdoor apparel collections that balance technical performance, comfort, durability, and contemporary style while reflecting the Berghaus brand identity.
- Research consumer insights, market trends, competitor activity, and emerging materials to identify opportunities for product innovation and commercial growth.
- Develop seasonal concepts, mood boards, colour palettes, fabric selections, technical sketches, and detailed design specifications from initial brief through to final product.
- Collaborate closely with Product Development, Technical, Merchandising, and Buying teams to ensure designs meet performance standards, cost targets, quality expectations, and critical path timelines.
- Work with suppliers and manufacturing partners to review prototypes, fittings, and samples, incorporating feedback to optimise fit, functionality, and production readiness.
- Ensure all designs deliver an exceptional women's fit and user experience, incorporating athlete, consumer, and wear-test feedback to continuously improve product performance.
- Present design concepts and seasonal ranges to internal stakeholders, communicating the creative vision while ensuring alignment with brand strategy, commercial objectives, and sustainability commitments.
Requirements
- 2–5 years' experience designing apparel, ideally within outdoor, active, sportswear, or lifestyle categories.
- Passion for women's apparel and a strong understanding of how performance, comfort, and style come together in product design.
- Good understanding of garment construction and apparel development processes, with an eagerness to build technical knowledge.
- Familiarity with performance materials and fabric technologies, including stretch, weather-resistant, breathable, and insulated fabrics.
- Strong eye for silhouette, fit, proportion, colour, and material selection.
- Ability to create outfit concepts and seasonal capsule collections that feel relevant, desirable, and aligned with consumer needs.
- Awareness of emerging trends across outdoor, active, and contemporary women's fashion markets.
- Strong CAD, illustration, and presentation skills with attention to detail.
- Collaborative approach and willingness to work closely with Product Management, Development, and Marketing teams.
- Interest in outdoor activities such as hiking, trail running, camping, climbing, or other adventure pursuits.
- Experience creating apparel graphics, prints, or visual storytelling assets would be a plus.
- Curious, adaptable, and eager to learn from technical and commercial teams while continuing to develop as a designer.
Skills
- CAD
- Illustration
- Presentation skills
- Garment construction
- Apparel development processes
- Performance materials
- Fabric technologies
- Trend research
- Consumer insights
- Market analysis
- Competitor analysis
- Product innovation
- Commercial growth strategies
- Seasonal concept development
- Mood board creation
- Color palette selection
- Fabric selection
- Technical sketching
- Design specification development
- Prototype review
- Sample review
- Fit optimization
- Functionality optimization
- Production readiness assessment
- User experience design
- Wear-test feedback incorporation
- Stakeholder presentation
- Brand strategy alignment
- Commercial objective alignment
- Sustainability commitment alignment
- Apparel graphics
- Prints
- Visual storytelling
Location
- UK
- US
- DE
- China
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Flexible start and finish times
Experience Level
- 2-5 years
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus
- 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.
- Berghaus is a brand built for the outdoors, shaped by decades of innovation, exploration and a belief that great kit helps people go further.
- From the mountains to the trail, Berghaus creates product for people who want to move confidently in the outdoors, whatever the conditions.
- It is a brand with real heritage, but also a clear focus on what comes next: better performance, better materials, better fit and more responsible product choices.
- Joining Berghaus means becoming part of a team that cares deeply about the details, how product feels, how it performs, how it lasts, and how it supports people in the moments that matter.