Trend & Design Manager
Pepkor Speciality
Cape Town, Western Cape
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Job description
Job Description
The Trend & Design Manager will shape and translate fashion trends, customer insights, and creative direction into a commercially relevant design and trend strategy for the brand.
This role will establish and lead a new Trends & Design function, bringing together trend forecasting, fashion direction, CAD, graphic design, and product design capabilities. The role will ensure the brand remains fashion-forward, relevant, and distinctive, while balancing creativity with commerciality, customer needs, and the overall brand strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Trend Strategy & Fashion Direction
- Develop and own the brand’s overall trend and fashion direction.
- Identify the new directions in fashion, color, print, fabric, silhouette, and styling.
- Design Direction & Creative Concepting
- Establish a clear and consistent creative and design vision across the brand.
- Lead the development of seasonal design concepts and product stories.
- CAD & Graphic Design Direction
- Customer & Market Insight
- Stakeholder engagement and collaboration
Qualifications
Matric/Grade 12
A relevant qualification in Graphic Design or Fashion Design or a related creative discipline
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Fashion trend forecasting
- Ladies’ apparel and product design
- Fashion and consumer trends
- CAD and digital design
- Graphic design and print development
- Product development processes
- Fashion retail and commercial merchandising
- Competitor and market analysis
- Seasonal product planning
- Brand positioning and customer segmentation.
- Commercially aware — understands price point and sell-through
- Works well under pressure; manages multiple briefs to deadline
- Collaborative and receptive to buyer and design feedback
- Self-motivated; takes ownership from brief to approval
- Expert repeat and colourway skills in Illustrator
- Strong colour sensibility and Pantone fluency
- Clean, production-ready file output as standard
- Ability to read and interpret fabric and print tech packs
- Comfortable working across multiple print techniques simultaneously
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