An international packaging agency who are famed for producing iconic visual identities for some of the world’s greatest consumer brands. This is an award winning agency with some varied and interesting clients, often applying the learning from the big brands to help start-ups make it big, and infuse the work for global giants with an entrepreneurial spirit.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design in projects (often multiple concurrently) from brief through strategy, concept, design, refinement and through to final artwork and delivery, working closely with Design Directors and Creative Directors.
• Contribute strong creative thinking and visual ideas early in the process; generate a variety of well-considered routes.
• Develop and maintain visual identity systems, packaging designs, and activation materials, ensuring clarity, consistency and excellence of craft.
• Work closely with other disciplines: Strategy / Planning, Client Services and Production to ensure design ideas are strategically sound, technically feasible, on budget, and to schedule.
• Mentor, guide, and uplift more junior designers; help them hone their craft, give clear feedback, and support their growth.
• Be a quality gate-keeper: ensure all outputs (digital, print, environmental, packaging) meet high standards in craft, detail, accuracy, and finish.
• Present work confidently and thoughtfully to internal stakeholders and clients, explaining design decisions with clarity and conviction.
• Liaise with external contributors (illustrators, typographers, photographers, motion- or 3D-artists) and oversee their deliverables as required.
• Bring in inspiration from culture, design, trends, materials, packaging innovations etc., and feed that into work to keep it fresh and compelling.
• Collaborate on pitches and new business when needed: helping shape creative directions and collateral.
• Contribute to the smooth running of projects: help with scheduling, scope, resource planning, ensuring budgets & timelines are adhered to.
• Maintain a kind, positive, collaborative attitude, even under pressure. Be someone who raises the bar but also lifts others.

Key Skills

•  5+ years’ design experience, ideally with significant agency experience across branding, identity, packaging, and/or activations.
• Strong portfolio showing excellent visual craft: identity systems, packaging, activation work, and ideally examples of work across print, digital and environmental or physical touchpoints.
• Solid hands-on skills with Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop), plus good knowledge of the production/artworking processes for packaging, print, digital. Experience with motion, 3D, or environmental design is a plus.
• Excellent eye for detail: typography, colour, materials, finishes. Understanding of scale, production constraints, technical execution.
• Confident presenter: you can articulate your thinking, defend your decisions, take feedback, and adapt ideas accordingly.
• Leadership mindset: ability and willingness to mentor, to push standards, to set and maintain design quality across teams.
• Strong collaboration skills: able to work with different disciplines, understand client needs, adapt to constraints.
• Curious, culturally aware, always looking at what’s happening in the world around, and understanding how that can inform and elevate our design work.
• Resilient under pressure, flexible, with a positive, can-do attitude.