Designer - Home Brands

Location: Leicester, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Working Pattern: Typically 5 days in the office to start with, moving to 3 days once embedded into the role. Core hours flexible between 8am to 6pm.

The Role
As a Hard Accessories Designer within our Label Home Brands team, you will be the creative force driving the future of our licensed home collections. Based at our Leicestershire Head Office, you will collaborate with prestigious, world-renowned licensed brands like Laura Ashley, Nina Campbell, and Rockett St George, as well as helping us shape the identity of exciting new brands joining our portfolio.

Your mission is to look forward, spot the next big trend, and push the boundaries of what we offer our customers. By transforming brand heritage into contemporary, commercial successes, you will directly impact Next’s market-leading home range. 

Our Designers here at Next are always looking forward. Looking for that Next thing, focusing on trend and pushing the boundaries of what we can offer our fantastic customer base. Working as a key part of the critical path; creating new and innovative designs for our Licensed Hard Accessories range! 

What You’ll Take On

• Design and innovate elevated hard accessories and home fragrance collections across multiple categories, ensuring all work aligns perfectly with each brand’s unique aesthetic and market needs.
• Collaborate closely with licensors to manage the approval process, deeply understanding and respecting their heritage while creatively contemporising the designs.
• Create detailed, accurate launch brief sheets and technical CAD work for our global supply base to ensure a seamless production process.
• Manage the design critical path in a fast-paced environment, partnering closely with buyers, merchandisers, and external stakeholders to deliver commercial triumphs.
• Nurture strong relationships with international suppliers, communicating design briefs clearly to maintain high-quality outcomes.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven designer-level experience gained within a similar brand, supplier, or high-street retailer, specifically focusing on hard goods or Home accessories.
• Strong 2D and 3D design expertise, with the ability to create commercial designs that resonate with a diverse customer base.
• A sharp eye for trends and an innate sense of taste, with a genuine passion for the Next brand portfolio.
• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, making you highly effective when managing external licensors and internal teams.
• Resilience and organisation, allowing you to thrive under pressure, manage multiple tasks, and hit critical deadlines without losing your creative spark.

 

Portfolios
To help us get a feel for your style, please attach a digital portfolio to your application. To help you put your best foot forward, we’ve put together a few top tips on what makes a portfolio stand out to our team.

Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.

Sponsorship & Application Details

Candidates wishing to apply who would require sponsorship for this role will be required to meet the Home Office sponsorship requirements. For further information please see: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.

We encourage early applications for our roles, as our recruitment process begins as soon as the role is advertised. If we successfully fill the position, this advert may close earlier than planned.

#LI-Onsite

About Us

You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 44,000 people across the Next group. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 450 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 80 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!

About the Organization

As a Hard Accessories Designer within our Label Home Brands team, you will be the creative force driving the future of our licensed home collections.