# Junior Designer Womenswear Shoes

**Company**: Marks & Spencer
**Location**: United Kingdom
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We have an exciting opportunity to join the M&S Womenswear Design team as a Junior Designer in Womenswear Shoes. You’ll take ownership of selected categories from initial concept through to fit-approved samples, translating global trends into stylish, customer-relevant footwear. Working closely with Design, Buying, Technology, Merchandising, sourcing teams and suppliers, you’ll help shape cohesive ranges that balance modernity, quality, value and commercial performance.

**Your key accountabilities will include**

- Taking ownership of selected footwear categories, designing product from initial concept through to fit-approved samples in line with range strategy, target price points and the critical path.

- Working with the Senior Designer or Design Lead to deliver the global product direction, creating high-quality CADs, design boards, presentations and accurate Tech Packs through PLM.

- Researching global retail, catwalk and emerging trends, translating key opportunities into considered, stylish footwear designs for our customer.

- Owning the seasonal colour palette and material sourcing process for the department, making choices that support product integrity and the agreed pricing architecture.

- Collaborating with Buying, Technology and Merchandising, sourcing offices and suppliers, using sales and performance insights to refine designs and support timely product delivery.

**Your skills and experience will include**

- Footwear design experience within a premium, retail or manufacturing environment, with a strong understanding of footwear construction, fit and material limitations.

- Strong design and CAD capability, with a high level of proficiency in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop; experience using AI design software to create footwear renders is beneficial.

- A commercial and customer-focused approach, with the ability to interpret trends, analyse performance and translate insights into relevant product opportunities.

- Experience creating accurate CADs and Tech Packs and working collaboratively with Design, Buying, Technology and Merchandising teams.

- Strong communication, influencing and relationship-building skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, take ownership and deliver to tight critical-path deadlines.

**What’s in it for you?**

Working at M&S means being part of something bigger - helping to deliver quality, value and service to millions of customers every day. We’re inclusive, fast-moving and always evolving, with a strong sense of purpose and a focus on doing the right thing.

Here are just a few of the benefits that make working here even more rewarding:

- 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation

- Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more

- Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours

- Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future

- Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one

- Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal

- Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave

- 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services

- One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you

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## Skills

### Required
- footwear design
- CAD design
- Adobe Illustrator
- Photoshop
- AI design software
- trend analysis
- commercial awareness
- communication skills
- relationship-building skills

### Nice to have
- experience in premium retail or manufacturing environment

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