Womenswear Senior Designer - softs

Job DescriptionWe are looking for a senior designer with strong expertise in soft woven & jersey womenswear to join our London-based team on an in-season, reactive design basis. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape our upcoming collection through a focused, creative process. Working closely with our design leads, you’ll identify tendencies and opportunities we may have missed for the season ahead, translating them into elevated, modern soft woven garments that embody the COS design philosophy—functional elegance, sculptural simplicity, and purposeful detail. You will also work on long lead time fancy jersey with a particular focus on products that drive femininity in a contemporary and effortless way. You will be responsible for delivering the company vision and targets within your department and leading your team toward achieving them. You are responsible for developing a strong, cohesive assortment that reflects the COS aesthetic and meets customer needs.This role centres around soft woven products focusing primarily on dresses, skirts and jersey. You will also work with reactive, in-season design of highly targeted pieces with a quicker, end-to-end development flow. Projects will be cross-category but with a particularly strong focus on flou.What you will do:Design predominantly into the soft woven and jersey category, responding to real-time needs identified for the upcoming season. Working to a brief provided by the Head of DesignCapture and articulate missed tendencies or emerging opportunities to enrich the collection. Collaborate closely with dedicated factory partners. Create designs with a faster-than-usual turnaround—from initial sketch through to toile, proto and final development. • Work on long lead time jersey fancy and soft wovens products allowing for in depth stand-work, draping and pre-development fittingsPartner closely with the factory team, who will be based in London during the launch and development phases. Lead fittings planned in a