Garment Technologist, Women's Wovens
Join one of the UK's leading fashion retailers, a brand that has been inspiring customers with trend-led, accessible fashion for over 55 years. With a strong high street presence, a growing digital business and a genuine passion for quality, innovation and sustainability, this is an exciting opportunity to join a collaborative technical team where you'll have a real influence on the products customers love. Working within a business that values development, inclusivity and continuous improvement, you'll play a key role in delivering exceptional quality across one of the retailer's largest and most important product categories.
As a Technologist specialising in Women's Wovens, you'll take ownership of quality across your product area, ensuring garments consistently meet customer expectations, regulatory requirements and brand standards. Working closely with Buying, Design, Merchandising and suppliers, you'll drive the implementation of the technical quality framework throughout the product lifecycle, from development through to production. You'll lead fit sessions, review testing and compliance, assess supplier capability, manage product risk, support product engineering and identify opportunities to improve quality, cost and lead times. You'll also benchmark competitors, mentor colleagues, share technical best practice and deputise for the Technical Manager when required, helping to drive continuous improvement across the wider team.
We're looking for an experienced Technologist with specialist knowledge of Women's Wovens gained within a major fashion retailer or supplier. You'll have an excellent understanding of garment construction, pattern technology, grading, fabric performance, manufacturing processes and quality assurance, with the confidence to lead fit sessions and make commercially balanced technical decisions. You'll be experienced in supplier management, risk assessment, product engineering and interpreting test reports, while also possessing strong communication, influencing and relationship-building skills. A proactive mindset, analytical approach and the ability to coach others while collaborating across cross-functional teams will be key to your success in this role.
Offering a salary of £50,000, this role comes with an excellent benefits package including 40% staff discount plus Friends & Family promotions, access to a flexible rewards platform, private pension, life assurance, Virtual GP access for you and your children, enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave, a paid birthday off, buy-more holiday scheme, interest-free season ticket loans, Cycle2Work scheme, wellbeing support through the Retail Trust and Fashion & Textile Children's Trust, and ongoing learning and development opportunities to support your career progression. If you're looking for a role where you can combine your technical expertise with commercial influence in a fast-paced fashion environment, we'd love to hear from you.
