Senior Designer - Womenswear Jersey
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type:
Business area: Sainsbury's Commercial & Sustainability
Closing date: 15 July 2026
Requisition ID: 400068489
Senior Designer - Womenswear Jersey
As a Senior Designer at TU Clothing, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of our customer proposition by bridging creativity with commercial strategy. You’ll translate brand vision, trend direction and consumer insight into collections that are both inspiring and commercially successful, ensuring relevance across customer segments while remaining aligned to business objectives.
This role requires expertise in womenswear jersey design. We are specifically seeking candidates with a proven background designing within this space.
This role combining high‑level creative expertise with strong commercial acumen, trend forecasting, and strategic thinking. You’ll influence product direction, raise creative standards and help bring ideas to life in ways that surprise and delight customers while remaining deliverable at scale.
What you’ll do
You’ll shape and influence product strategy and seasonal design direction for your area, ensuring creative output supports commercial objectives and customer needs. This includes defining and delivering seasonal concepts, design theories and mood boards, clearly articulating creative direction and presenting confidently to key stakeholders. You’ll use market research, trend forecasting and customer insight to interpret emerging behaviours and translate them into relevant, commercially viable design opportunities.
The role also contributes to macro‑trend research, informing wider business strategy and seasonal storytelling. You’ll ensure design integrity throughout the full product lifecycle, from concept through to final production - maintaining TU brand DNA, quality standards and deliverability, while mentoring and influencing the wider design team.
Who you are
You’re an experienced, commercially minded designer who can balance creativity with delivery. You’re confident presenting ideas, influencing stakeholders and working at pace in a fast‑moving environment. You’re curious, trend‑aware and strategically minded, with a strong passion for product and a drive to continually raise the bar on quality, relevance and customer appeal.
To be considered for this role, you must have demonstrable experience operating at Senior Designer level or equivalent, with clear accountability for trend interpretation, product development and influencing design direction within a commercial fashion environment.
Essential Criteria
- Expert CAD and hand‑sketching skills, producing clear, accurate and commercially effective design outputs
- Expertise in womenswear design.
- Strong understanding of fabric performance, garment construction and manufacturing methods
- Proven ability to balance creative vision with commercial viability, delivering trend‑led designs aligned to business objectives
- Confident presenter with strong influencing skills, able to articulate design concepts and seasonal direction clearly
- Experience developing detailed tech packs to support accurate sampling and production
- Strong planning and critical path management skills, ensuring design milestones are delivered on time
- Demonstrable experience in Lingerie and Swimwear design
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We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
