Assistant Trend Forecaster - Womenswear - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
£32k - £43k per annumFull-time
Working Pattern: Typically 5 days in the office, with core hours flexible between 8am-6pm.
Ideal Start Date: Early December 2026.
The Role
As our Trend Forecasting Assistant (Womenswear), you will be the eyes and ears of the future of fashion at NEXT. Supporting our Trend Forecaster, you will play a vital role in identifying emerging macro trends, analysing colour, and translating inspiration into commercially relevant insights specifically for our Womenswear design and buying teams.
This is a dynamic, fast-paced role where you will make a tangible difference by helping to shape and articulate the creative direction that defines each season, ensuring NEXT remains ahead of the curve. You will work closely with cross-functional design and buying teams, acting as a collaborative bridge between raw inspiration and high-street reality.
What You’ll Take On
- Provide support by conducting extensive trend research to help identify and deliver emerging trends, colour and key items. Key items should be a focal point for each story.
- Monitor global catwalks, street style, retail, and social media to spot early-stage emerging trends.
- Meticulously analyse seasonal catwalks and street style with a focus on key items.
- Collate and compile weekly updates highlighting key fashion shows, cultural moments, and industry news.
- Carry out competitive shop reports across in-store and online and report back findings.
- Focus on key items and in particular quick response items. Working closely with the teams that offer short lead time products.
- Attend industry talks and exhibitions, bringing back actionable insights to share with the wider team.
- Work with the fabric sourcing, be the link with buying teams to help deliver key trends quickly at a good price.
- Track and report on social media trends, including viral hashtags, key films, TV releases, and wider cultural influences.
- Maintain and update the fashion and cultural calendar, tracking upcoming trade shows, exhibitions, key events, and relevant cultural releases.
- Generate inspirational design boards and updating seasonal colour flow charts.
- Become the primary point of contact for all quick response and in-season trend information. Build strong relationships by working closely with design and buying teams to ensure trend recommendations align with the short lead critical path.
What You’ll Bring
You are highly trend-aware, creatively curious, and commercially minded. You have a natural ability to connect cultural shifts to real-world product opportunities, thriving in a fast-paced environment where priorities can shift quickly.
Essential Experience & Skills
- A strong portfolio proving you have a sharp eye for the future of fashion.
- Proven Womenswear experience within a design or trend-focused environment.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator).
- Excellent visual research and sourcing skills, with sharp attention to detail and styling direction.
- Commercial awareness with a solid understanding of the high street and our competitive landscape.
- Strong organisation skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks, numerous deadlines and cross seasonal information, seamlessly.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills to confidently share ideas with the buying teams.
Desirable (But Not Essential)
- Knowledge of, or curiosity about, generative AI tools and programs.
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
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: .
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.
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- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Profit-related bonus - based on company performance
- Private health insurance- surgery choices
- Sharesave scheme - make savings from your net pay to buy NEXT shares at a discount
- Pension - fixed contribution rates from both an employer and employee perspective, but you're also able to make additional voluntary contributions (AVCs) if you wish to save more.
- 25% staff discount on most NEXT products - plus discount on other products
- Wagestream - helping you make the most out of your money
- Salary finance - offers access to affordable loans repaid through salary, simple savings and free financial education.
- Life assurance
- Direct to work - NEXT orders delivered free to the office for collection
- VIP sale - early access to the NEXT sale
- Access to NEXT staff shops
- Octopus energy - like cycle-to-work, but for electric vehicles
- Free parking (excluding London locations)
- Travel2NEXT - bus services dependent on location
- On site dining facilities (excluding London locations)
- National and local discounts on goods and services - this includes things like discounted cinema tickets
- Wellhub - includes access to discounted gym membership
- Simply health - a healthcare subscription service
- Aviva Digicare Workplace+ healthcare service - 7 Free services including Digital GP appointments and an annual health check.
- Onsite GP - Leicester Head Office
- Onsite Physio - Leicester Head Office
- A range of dedicated 3rd party wellbeing partners
- Free eye testing - voucher to use at specific locations
Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change.
We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email View email address on ekeq.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on View phone number on ekeq.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com and leave a voicemail.
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