Design Manager Womenswear

As Design Manager Womenswear, you set the creative direction for our Womenswear collection. You translate our brand strategy, customer insights and international fashion trends into a clear design vision, ensuring a consistent and recognisable handwriting across the collection. From seasonal concepts and colour direction to silhouettes, materials and details: you know where we need to go and bring your team along with you.

You oversee the entire design process from initial concept to final collection. You challenge and guide design choices, safeguard quality and brand consistency and continuously balance creativity, commercial relevance and wearability. You stay close to the product and are confident getting hands on when needed, while your main focus is on setting direction and enabling your team to create at their best.

Fashion instinct alone is not enough. You understand our customer, know what is happening in the international market and use sales performance, consumer insights and trends to make informed design decisions. You spot new opportunities and translate them into collections that feel relevant, distinctive and unmistakably WE®.

Collaboration is key. You work closely with the Director of Womens & Kidswear and partner with the Buying Manager Womenswear and Head of Merchandising Womenswear throughout the collection process.
Just as important is the development of your team. You lead, coach and inspire our Womenswear Designers, provide clear creative direction and create an environment where talent can grow. You set high standards while giving people the confidence and space to develop their own skills and take ownership.

In this role, you report directly to the Director of Womenswear & Kidswear.

Where you make impact:

• You bring strong experience in Womenswear design and have demonstrated that you can translate brand identity, trends and customer insights into distinctive and commercially successful collections.
• You have experience setting creative direction across a collection and combine strategic and conceptual thinking with the design skills to remain hands on when needed.
• You are an experienced people leader who knows how to coach, challenge and develop Designers and build a strong, collaborative team.
• You have a commercial mindset, understand the dynamics of a fast moving fashion environment and know how to balance creativity, newness, quality and commercial relevance.
• You communicate confidently in English and are comfortable collaborating with different disciplines, international suppliers and partners.
• You are highly skilled in Adobe Creative Cloud, particularly Adobe Illustrator, and have experience working with Quest or a comparable Product Data Management (PDM) system.

*We would love to see your work. Please include your portfolio with your application.

We evaluate all applicants based on competencies, experience and equal pay (m/f/x).

HOW WE RECRUIT
We believe that strong leadership is not only about vision but also about connection. That is why our process includes conversations with key stakeholders, a creative pitch in which you share your perspective on the WE® brand, and an assessment to further explore your leadership qualities.

With your commercialism and entrepreneurship, you ensure every day that we can continue to grow and innovate, so there should be something in return. You work for WE®, WE work for you. You therefore get from us:

• A salary that matches your knowledge, education and experience.
• A travel allowance, 25 holidays, 8% holiday pay (you can pay out yearly or monthly), a standard 20% shop discount, a pension scheme and an extensive package of collective insurances.
• Annual ‘Moments that matter day’; an extra day off that you can use on a day with special meaning for you.
• The chance to continuously learn and develop, both professionally and personally. From our WE® Academy, for example, we offer various education and training opportunities that you need to excel with us.
• Discount on your sports subscription, participating in bootcamp and/or boxing classes at a reduced rate and enjoying free fruit at our head office.
• Team events, BBQs and more!