Where a leather goods designer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a leather goods designer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Leather goods designers are in charge of the creative process of leather goods. They perform fashion trends analysis, accompany market researches and forecast needs, plan and develop collections, create concepts and build the collection lines. They additionally conduct the sampling, create prototypes or samples for presentation and promote concepts and collections. During the collection development, they define the mood and the concept board, the colour palettes, the materials and produce drawings and sketches. Leather goods designers identify the range of materials and components and define the design specifications. They collaborate with the technical team.
Also known as leather goods drawer, leatherware designer, leather goods fashion designer, leather goods drafter, fashion leather goods designer, leather goods designer and developer, leather goods CAD designer, leather goods creator, leatherware drafter, leather goods designer & developer.
Professionals 28 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: leather goods quality control laboratory technician, 72%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
- leather goods quality control laboratory technician 72% covered · difficulty 24.9
- leather goods quality technician 66% covered · difficulty 32.7
- leather goods manual operator 64% covered · difficulty 28.6
- leather goods industrial engineer 64% covered · difficulty 34.6
- leather goods patternmaker 63% covered · difficulty 36.1
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A leather goods designer needs 18 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- develop leather goods collection communication, collaboration and creativity
- sketch leather goods communication, collaboration and creativity
- footwear and leather goods marketing planning business, administration and law
- develop footwear and leather goods marketing plans management skills
- implement footwear marketing plan communication, collaboration and creativity
- apply development process to footwear design information skills
- create mood boards communication, collaboration and creativity
- apply fashion trends to footwear and leather goods information skills
- ergonomics in footwear and leather goods design engineering, manufacturing and construction
- footwear creation process engineering, manufacturing and construction
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a leather goods designer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- leather goods product developer 81% covered · difficulty 22.9
- leather goods product development manager 81% covered · difficulty 22.9
- footwear product developer 66% covered · difficulty 38.9
- footwear designer 59% covered · difficulty 45
- footwear product development manager 59% covered · difficulty 45
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Leather goods designer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a leather goods designer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.