Senior Designer Womenswear

As a Senior Designer for Per Una, you’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering the creative vision for one of M&S’s most distinctive womenswear brands. Per Una embodies a youthful spirit and effortless desirability, expressed through a modern boho aesthetic, artisanal craft, fluid silhouettes, textured detail and confident femininity. Working across multiple product categories, you’ll lead the creation of commercially strong, trend-led ranges that feel expressive, customer-focused and true to the Per Una identity. This is an exciting opportunity for a creative, agile and commercially minded designer with strong taste level, multi-product experience and the confidence to inspire teams, influence stakeholders and bring fresh ideas to life at pace.

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Due to high interest, this role may close earlier than advertised. We recommend applying as soon as possible.

What you’ll do 

Your key accountabilities will include

•      Lead the design and development of multi-product womenswear ranges, ensuring a strong and consistent handwriting across categories. 

·   Use customer insight, trade performance and sales information to shape commercially relevant ranges and support strong range architecture. 

·   Bring a high taste level and refined eye for colour, fabric, proportion, detail and finish to deliver distinctive, desirable product. 

·   Manage, coach and develop design team members, providing clear direction and supporting creative and commercial growth. 

·   Work closely with suppliers and sourcing partners, including through supplier travel where required, to develop product in line with brand, quality, cost and customer expectations

Who you are 

Your skills and experience will include

• Multi-product design expertise, able to design across a broad product range with strong creative judgement.
• People leadership and line management, experienced in coaching, developing and managing design talent.
• High taste level and strong creative eye, refined understanding of style, colour, fabric, proportion and detail.
• Customer focus, able to translate customer insight, lifestyle shifts and market awareness into relevant product opportunities.
• Commercial range understanding, confident using trade and sales information to inform range architecture and support commercial decision-making.
• Expert-level CAD skills: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.

What’s in it for you? 

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.

Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:

• 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation

• Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more

• Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours 

• Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future

• Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one

• Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal

• Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave

• 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services

• One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you

Everyone’s welcome 

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We are disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We are transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.

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