Womenswear Garment Tech Manager£45-62,000 depending on experience

This is an amazing opportunity to join a successful fashion retail business as a Garment Tech Manager. The role is with desirable brand offering premium quality fashion pieces for every occasion. If you would like the opportunity to bring your technical expertise to a place where you can make your mark and develop your career, then this could be the right opportunity for you.

This is a perfect role for a Senior Garment Technologist who is looking for their next step-up in their career. Likewise, it would also suit an existing Garment Techn Manager who is seeking a new challenge.

This is what youll do:

Provide technical guidance and support throughout the product development lifecycle.

Establish and enforce quality control procedures, conducting regular inspections to identify and address any issues related to garment construction, fit, and finishing.

Collaborate with suppliers and manufacturers to ensure they understand and adhere to technical specifications, conducting factory visits when required and audits when necessary.

Supporting the team and managing categories within the fit process from proto stage through to production and assessing AQL reports.

Stay updated on industry regulations, safety standards, and sustainability requirements, ensuring that all products meet legal and ethical standards.

Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues that may arise during the production process, finding innovative solutions to maintain product quality.

Work with the Buying team to optimise manufacturing processes while maintaining quality standards, effectively managing production costs.

Maintain detailed records of technical specifications, patterns, and quality control reports, ensuring accurate and organised documentation.

Demonstrate an excellent understanding of the customer base and brand handwriting, as well as in depth product and competitor knowledge.

Constantly meet and exceed expectations on product fit, performance and quality.

Manage fit sessions by working with Buying and Design to ensure excellent and consistent fit of product, together with the best construction methods.

Manage in house model bookings and budgets for all fit sessions.

Development of new labelling and branding to align and create a central source for all factories.

Regularly visit our stores and review online platform as well as competition to ensure you are aware of risks and opportunities. In addition to this, also lead fit reviews to help reduce returns rates.

Standardise key blocks with the support of buying and design to increase speed and accuracy when fitting and increase product performance.

Develop minimum make standards and measurements and adhere to these to ensure consistency for the customer across all categories.

Develop and work with buying on testing requirements as the business grows, ensuring all legislation in different countries are adhered to.

Liaise with external teams, including the warehouse to understand and respond to any quality issues and to advise further actions.

Collate & assess Returns data after each phase to create clear lessons learnt. Present finding an actions in Returns meeting to improve fit for future developments.

Lead on sustainable sourcing in partnership with Buying and Design and ensure factories and suppliers are compliant and adhering to codes of conduct.

Lead and mentor the Tech team, providing guidance and training.

Who were looking for:

An experienced womenswear Senior Garment Tech or Manager who has a solid background of working within a premium clothing brand.
An in-depth knowledge of garment construction, fabrics, and manufacturing processes.

Your collaborative and clear communication skills will enable you to work with the wider product team such as Buying and Design, building successful working relationships.

You will be enthusiastic about product and constantly seeking to make improvements for the brand and customer.

If this opportunity sounds like its the right one for you, then apply today.

London / Greater London / Garment Tech Manager / Senior Garment Technologist / Technical Manager / Head of Technical