Fourth Floor
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Base pay range
$100,000.00/yr - $120,000.00/yr
Senior Search Consultant at Fourth Floor, a division of Career Group Companies
Our client, a global sportswear brand is looking for a talented and innovative Apparel Designer Manager for Men's activewear.
Purpose of Role
The Design Manager, Apparel oversees the entire lifecycle of apparel product design, from concept development to execution, ensuring alignment with the brand identity and market trends. They collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product development, marketing, and merchandising, to deliver innovative and market-leading apparel offerings within the Training category. Additionally, they play a key role in driving the creative vision and strategy for the category, leveraging consumer insights and industry trends to drive product excellence and brand differentiation.
Your Impact
Manage & direct the apparel design team and plan for future needs as well as their team’s performance and future development.
Manage apparel design team’s workload & deliverables across multiple projects and seasons at the same time.
Accountable for apparel design team’s quality & accuracy of work, as well as deadlines.
Work cross functionally with other apparel design partners to ensure cross category collaboration and share of ideas & athlete insights.
Ensure the business and design vision needs are considered and able to be executed through the supply chain. Ensure production art processes & template are efficient, and have future vision to how things can be improved.
Partner on process improvement ideas with in apparel design, be proactive with challenges, and solution oriented.
Partner and communicate with Design leaders on category direction, vision and execution.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree with typically 8 years of relevant experience.
Typically 1 - 3 years of management experience; or equivalent experience as the subject matter lead or expert in area of expertise.
Previous apparel design experience with a solid understanding apparel development and materials—activewear a plus.
Well‑versed in manufacturing techniques and have experience working at the factories on development issues.
Expert ability to express concepts and ideas through hand sketching.
Understanding of patterns, blueprints, molds and materials.
Adobe suite, specifically Illustrator.
AI usage (Raspberry AI) nice to have.
Hand sketching.
Workplace Location
Location: This individual must reside within commuting distance from Baltimore, Maryland office.
Work Schedule: This role follows a hybrid work schedule, requiring 4 days in‑office per week.
Travel: International and domestic travel.
Possibility of person residing in NYC if willing to travel to Baltimore weekly.
Relocation
Relocation may be provided up to a specified amount.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Design
Industries
Retail Apparel and Fashion and Retail
Benefits
Medical insurance
Vision insurance
401(k)
Disability insurance
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