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About the Role

As a Girls Athleisure/sportswear Designer, you will act as a creative guardian for a prestigious brand portfolio, ensuring the brand's unique "DNA" is translated into elevated, commercially successful designs across contemporary, casual sportswear. You will bridge the gap between trend research and technical execution, making a tangible impact on the aesthetic direction of collections by reacting with agility to market data. You will thrive in a highly collaborative environment, working side-by-side with partner brands and internal garment teams to bring concepts to life across diverse product categories. Next provides comprehensive brand immersion and technical onboarding to support your transition into our fast-paced, premium design landscape.

Responsibilities

Design High-Impact Sportswear and Athleisure Collections: Create innovative, commercial, and elevated sportswear, activewear, and athleisure garments that blend technical functionality with licensed brand aesthetics.
Manage Factory Partnerships: Liaise directly with global factories and specialist performance wear suppliers to oversee the manufacturing process, ensuring garment shapes and technical details translate perfectly into the final product.
Build Trusted Licensing Relationships: Foster strong, professional bonds with external license brand partners and internal teams to build a culture of confidence, trust, and seamless collaboration.
Coordinate Cross-Functionally: Partner closely with Garment Technologists, Buying, and Merchandising teams to develop fit-for-purpose ranges that meet rigorous performance standards while hitting critical path deadlines.
Translate Global Trends: Continually research and communicate emerging global trends in casual wear and sportswear silhouettes, fabric technology, trims, and colour, turning trend inspiration into commercial design concepts.
Deliver Technical Precision: Produce detailed and highly accurate Tech Packs, specifying garment construction, performance fabrics, trims, and fit specifications to provide factories with clear guidelines that minimise errors and maximise efficiency.

Requirements

Versatile Sportswear and Athleisure Expertise: Adaptable design "handwriting" to switch effortlessly between different licensed brand and trend aesthetics, age ranges, and product tiers across the girls' activewear market.
Technical Mastery: Highly proficient in Adobe Creative Suite and strong understanding of jersey and activewear construction, performance trims, and specialised techniques. Ability to build thorough tech packs that respect factory capabilities and price points.
Commercial Activewear Sharpness: Stay ahead of macro and micro sportswear trends, understanding how to design silhouettes and apparel ranges that are commercially viable, highly functional, and perfectly aligned with a license partner's DNA.
Resilience and Agility: Thrive in fast-paced design environments, staying organised and positive when priorities shift. View fast-moving trends and brand changes as an opportunity to innovate.
Clear Communication: Present activewear concepts with confidence and communicate complex technical and brand requirements clearly to both internal stakeholders, brand partners, and global suppliers.
Forward-Thinking Skills: Experience with 3D design software, AI visualisation tools, or a background in technical sportswear garment construction will give a significant head start.
Attach a digital portfolio demonstrating a sharp eye for the future of girls' casualwear and activewear, commercial viability for Next, trend research, garment designs, and CAD work.
Candidates requiring sponsorship must meet Home Office sponsorship requirements.

Skills

Adobe Creative Suite
Jersey construction
Activewear construction
Performance trims
Specialised techniques (flatlock stitching, bonding, ergonomic panelling)
Trend research
CAD
3D design software (preferred)
AI visualisation tools (preferred)
Technical sportswear garment construction (preferred)

Location

Office

Work Type

5 days in the office
Full-time

Experience Level

Experienced designer

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Profit-related bonus
Management share options
Company car or car allowance
Private medical insurance
Sharesave scheme
Pension
Life assurance
Group income protection
Wagestream
Salary finance
25% staff discount on most NEXT products
Direct to work - NEXT orders delivered free to the office for collection
VIP sale
Access to NEXT staff shops
Octopus energy
Free parking (excluding London locations)
Travel2NEXT
On site dining facilities (excluding London locations)
National and local discounts on goods and services
Wellhub
Simply health
Aviva Digicare Workplace+ healthcare service
Onsite GP - Leicester Head Office
Onsite Physio - Leicester Head Office
A range of dedicated 3rd party wellbeing partners
Free eye testing

About the Company

Next is a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 44,000 people.
It is the UK's 2nd largest fashion retailer and the market leader for Kidswear.
The company has over 450 stores and operates online in over 80 countries worldwide.

Equal Opportunity

We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary.
Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email headoffice_careers@next.co.uk (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.