Freelance Hand Bag Designer in Manchester, UK

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The Company
We are a leading Fashion Accessories brand, supplying over 3000 stockists in the UK & abroad including Independent retailers, high street retailers, online retailers and department stores. Company has achieved impressive growth over the last few years in UK. We have strong reputation and growing recognition within the marketplace and offer superb opportunities for successful people.

The Role
Successful candidate will be trend aware and have strong eye for hand bag design. You will be designing for an already popular hand bags brands and help create capsule collections for our high street MTO clients on their own brands. You will be working closely with the design/product manager to plan, create and develop the range. This is an exciting opportunity to join a great company on freelance basis and to work within an inspiring team.

Your responsibilities include but not limited to interpreting cat-walk trends, ability to translate and fit them into brand’s identity. Competitive shopping, research and development including compiling mood boards and colour pallets. Plan, create and execute exciting ranges and present it to product director for review.

The Ideal candidate must be able to draw by hand and also be proficient in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop and have strong experience, in designing trendy handbags.

Position Requirements

• Must have experience in handbags design
• Worked or designed for high street accounts
• Used to working in a fast paced design environment and taking responsibility.
• Experience in managing the ranges from start to finish with clear understanding of customer demographics
• An eye for identifying trends and translating into commercial designs.
• Sound knowledge of handbag construction and ability to put specs together.
• Confident CAD skills. Experience in liaising with manufacturers and suppliers.

Are you looking to pay or is this a collaboration?
Hire a freelancer

Is this ongoing work or a one off job?
Ongoing work

How would you prefer to pay?
Day rate

What’s your day rate budget range?
150-250 (Industry average)

Do you have an estimate of the job or project length?
Don’t know

Are you a company or individual hiring?
Company

Do you have internal sign off for the work?
Yes

How many freelancers do you want to contact you?
2-3

Do you need to hire for a specific city, country or place?
Yes, they need to be at a location (give location in job title)

When do you want to have the freelancer secured by?
2-3 weeks

What is most important for this job?
Quality

Do you have a project specification or creative brief?
Yes (please enter this in the description)

Where did you find Twine?
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