Job Purpose:
Job Title: Womenswear Designer
Department: Buying and Design
Location: Leeds with some travel
Report To: Head of Design
Type: Maternity Cover - 1 year fixed term contract
About the Role:
We’re looking for a talented and creative Womenswear Designer to join our passionate Design Team on a maternity cover contract.
You’ll work closely with the Womenswear Buyers, Head of Design, and our Founder to continually grow and evolve our womenswear collections — bringing fresh ideas that stay true to the distinctive Joe Browns handwriting.
This role requires a high level of graphic and print ability, along with a strong eye for colour, detail, and silhouette. You’ll need proven strengths in designing dresses and jackets, excellent Photoshop and Illustrator skills, and the confidence to work directly with suppliers — from concept through to sample sign-off.
It’s a hands-on, fast-paced role that calls for both creativity and commercial awareness, as well as the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines while keeping our customers at the heart of everything you do.
Key Responsibilities:
- Research and interpret emerging trends, using this insight to enhance seasonal collections.
- Create design themes that reflect current trends while maintaining the Joe Browns handwriting and brand territories.
- Design across key womenswear product areas, including dresses, jackets, graphic tops, and nightwear.
- Develop graphics, embroideries, and prints, ensuring they align with brand identity.
- Work collaboratively with the buying team to deliver cohesive, commercially viable ranges.
- Source and develop new fabrics, trims, and finishes to elevate product quality and innovation.
- Produce detailed tech packs and work closely with suppliers to ensure accurate development.
- Attend and contribute to sign-off meetings and seasonal range reviews.
- Build and maintain strong supplier relationships, attending local and international development trips as required.
- Work cross-functionally with other departments to align on seasonal direction, timelines, and customer insights.
- Uphold and enhance the Joe Browns brand identity through every design you create.
About You:
You’ll be an experienced designer with at least three years’ experience in womenswear design, ideally within a lifestyle or fashion brand. You’ll combine creativity with strong technical understanding and a commercial mindset, always balancing innovation with customer appeal.
You’ll be a confident communicator, highly organised, and able to manage your own workload effectively in a collaborative team environment.
Experience
Essential Criteria
- Proven ability to design dresses, jackets, graphic tops, and prints.
- Strong Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop skills.
- Strong knowledge of current and future fashion trends.
- Ability to create seasonal themes that reflect and enhance the brand identity.
- Experience in developing graphics, embroideries, and prints.
- Experience working with suppliers on product development.
- Ability to produce detailed, accurate tech packs.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience of working within a lifestyle or branded fashion environment.
- Experience of collaborating closely with buyers.
- Experience in designing nightwear.
- Understanding and sourcing of new fabrics and trims.
- Previous experience of working with Far East suppliers.
- Proven ability to manage timelines and workload effectively.
Knowledge, skills and behaviours
We expect all of our employees to demonstrate a core set of knowledge, skills and behaviours appropriate to their role:
Knowledge:
- The Joe Browns strategy, vision and values, the customer journey
- Understand how your team and your role adds value and interacts with the rest of the business
- Current technical, legal and compliance obligations relating to your work and industry
Skills:
- Communication; communicates effectively with all stakeholders, manages expectations of delivery.
- Self-Management; organised, able to manage own time, problem solver, holds self accountable.
- Decision Making; ability to make careful decisions based on available data and recognising where matter should be escalated to a more senior level
Behaviours:
- Integrity; honesty, dependability, trustworthy, ethical, fair and inclusive
- Passionate; engaged and enthusiastic in your role and advocate for the business
- Customer and quality focused; outcome orientated; goal focused.
- Collaborative; inclusive, team player, shares ideas
- Self-development champion; active in own development, cognizant of own development needs, ambitious for self and the business
- Consistency; delivery of promises; consistently high standard of output, clear words and actions.
- Brand/ business ambassador; building internal and external community focus, role model for the brand and values of the business, displaying external integrity.
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Job Purpose:
Job Title: Garment Technologist
Department: Quality Assurance
Location: Leeds
Report To: Head of Quality Control
Type: Permanent
About the Role:
This role is to oversee the development of Joe Browns goods to ensure fair and consistent standards are applied in line with business priorities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Working on multiple products (specifically Ladieswear)
- To spec, fit and seal styles within the product ranges
- Working closely with suppliers to ensure tasks are completed in line with critical path dates
- Check and approve branding/labelling on each style in line with brand definitions
- Assess and sign off on wash test reports
- Oversee inspection of deliveries on relevant styles and agree actions on any rectification work required
- Collection and analysis of returns information
- Understand reasons for returns and take all possible commercial actions to improve performance
- Work cross functionally with internal departments to ensure smooth running of the day to day quality control function
About You:
Experience
You will hold a degree in a related field and knowledge of pattern cutting and construction and have confidence in taking responsibility for your own product areas throughout the sealing process. You should have strong attention to detail and accuracy skills and be conversant with related IT software.
Your stakeholders
Your main stakeholders will be the wider Quality Assurance team in ensuring that the highest standards are met to create remarkable clothing for our customers.
Knowledge, skills and behaviours
We expect all of our employees to demonstrate a core set of knowledge, skills and behaviours appropriate to their role:
Knowledge:
- The Joe Browns strategy, vision and values, the customer journey
- Understand how your team and your role adds value and interacts with the rest of the business
- Current technical, legal and compliance obligations relating to your work and industry
Skills:
- Communication; communicates effectively with all stakeholders, manages expectations of delivery.
- Self-Management; organised, able to manage own time, problem solver, holds self accountable.
- Decision Making; ability to make careful decisions based on available data and recognising where matter should be escalated to a more senior level
Behaviours:
- Integrity; honesty, dependability, trustworthy, ethical, fair and inclusive
- Passionate; engaged and enthusiastic in your role and advocate for the business
- Customer and quality focused; outcome orientated; goal focused.
- Collaborative; inclusive, team player, shares ideas
- Self-development champion; active in own development, cognizant of own development needs, ambitious for self and the business
- Consistency; delivery of promises; consistently high standard of output, clear words and actions.
- Brand/ business ambassador; building internal and external community focus, role model for the brand and values of the business, displaying external integrity.
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Job Purpose:
Job Title: Junior Merchandise Planner
Location: Leeds
Type: Permanent
Joe Browns was founded by Simon Brown in 1998, inspired by a group of friends enjoying a beer in a beach bar called The Ty Coch Inn in Morfa Nefyn, North Wales, at the end of a great day surfing some waves. Fresh out of the sea, salt in their hair, laughing, joking and totally carefree, they were having an absolute blast. That was the essence, right there, of Joe Browns: FUN, SPONTANEOUS and FREE!
Everything we do revolves around making people feel good.
We're not trend-setters by any means - that's really not our bag - but what we do create is remarkable garments that never fail to evoke positive compliments.
It's the small details and little finishing touches that make our garments stand out from other high street brands.
It's all about helping our customers to feel confident, liberated and totally individual when it's a Joe Browns kind of day!
We look for people who embrace who they are, stand up for what they believe in, and bring both creativity and commercial thinking to their work. If you’re ambitious, determined, and want to be the best at what you do, we’d love to hear from you.
About the Role:
We’re looking for a Junior Merchandise Planner to join our dynamic team. Reporting to the Head of Planning, you’ll play a vital role in driving strategic decisions across key product categories. Your work will ensure we have the right products, in the right place, at the right time—delighting our customers and delivering results.
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with the Head of Planning and Buyers to create group mix strategies across all channels.
- Attend Range Control and Selection meetings to support product planning and selection.
- Ensure buys align with signed-off buy plans and business objectives.
- Populate and manage WSSIs with budget and forecast KPIs.
- Monitor availability and performance of core lines, conducting regular reviews.
- Review trading performance of new season lines, identifying risks and opportunities to maximise sales.
- Analyse trial lines and new initiatives to inform future decisions.
- Provide performance overviews and commentary on markdown events (End of Season sales, clearance events, etc.).
- Track and highlight variances to sales plans and year-on-year performance.
Your Stakeholders:
Your main stakeholders will be employees of the business, in particular those within Buying, Supply Chain and Analyst areas.
About You:
This role is perfect for someone with experience in merchandising who’s ready to make their mark in a growing planning function.
We’re looking for someone who:
- Takes ownership of their work and uses initiative to deliver results.
- Works to consistently high standards with a keen eye for detail.
- Is highly analytical and confident translating data into clear, concise action points.
- Has a commercial mindset and experience working with WSSIs (desirable).
- Is proficient in advanced Excel; familiarity with Power Pivot and BI tools is an advantage.
- Has previous experience in a similar role.
Why Join Us?
At Joe Browns, we don’t just create remarkable clothing—we create a remarkable place to work.
From day one, you’ll feel the difference: a vibrant, supportive culture where individuality is celebrated, ideas are shared freely, and every colleague is valued for exactly who they are.
Alongside competitive salaries, here are just some of the benefits you can look forward to as part of the Joe Browns team:
- 50% Staff Discount
Enjoy half-price shopping on all clothing and selected full price homeware—because we want you to feel as good in our clothes as our customers do.
- A Warm Welcome
A Welcome Voucher worth up to £100 to treat yourself to something special when you join.
- Health & Wellbeing Programme
Access a comprehensive range of resources to support your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing whenever you need it.
- Hybrid Working*
Where practical, you can blend time at home with time in our buzzing office—with home working available on Mondays and Fridays.
- Flexible Working*
Fit your hours around you. Need to drop the kids off at school or avoid the morning rush? No problem. Where possible, you can start anytime between 7:30am and 10am.
- Start the Weekend Early*
End the week on a high with a 2pm finish on a Friday—just complete your contracted hours and head off to enjoy your weekend.
- Casual Dress
Express your personality every day. No suits, no stuffy dress codes—just be you.
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay
Extra support for growing families when it matters most.
- Annual Leave Buying & Selling Scheme
Tailor your time off to suit your lifestyle and plans.
- We Appreciate You
Annual bonuses to recognise your hard work—subject to organisational performance.
- Life Assurance
Peace of mind knowing your loved ones are protected.
- Free On-Site Parking
More convenience, less stress.
- Annual Social Events
From legendary Christmas parties to spontaneous team get-togethers, we believe life’s better with a bit of fun along the way.
- A Creative, Fast-Paced Environment
Work somewhere dynamic, exciting, and genuinely different—where no two days are ever the same.
At Joe Browns, everything we do revolves around helping people feel confident, liberated, and totally individual. That goes for our colleagues, too. Whether you’re designing remarkable garments, delighting our customers, or supporting behind the scenes, you’ll be part of a team that believes work should be as rewarding and enjoyable as possible.
Ready to be part of something special? Join us—and make every day remarkable.
* Benefits applicable to head office admin-based roles only.
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