Packaging Design Lead

Prospex Recruitment; Bradford; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading packaging and branding agency in Bradford is seeking a Packaging Design Lead to bridge upstream creative with downstream adaptive design. You will lead work for major accounts, ensuring creative intent scales across ranges and multiple SKUs while maintaining practical delivery.

This client-facing role requires confident presentation, collaborative work across creative, adaptive and client service teams, and a strong sense of commercial viability.

Qualifications

• Significant retail packaging experience is essential.
• Experience taking concepts through into adaptive design and rollout.
• Strong client-facing presentation skills and confident communicator.
• Ability to bridge upstream creative and downstream execution at scale.
• Collaborative with cross-functional teams across creative, adaptive and client service.
• Exposure to US retail/packaging is a bonus.

Skills

Strong creative and design capability

Retail packaging experience

Adaptive design rollout

Ranges & packaging formats

Client-facing presentation skills

Commercially minded

Collaborative across teams

US retail packaging experience (bonus)

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Illustrator

Photoshop

InDesign

Job description

Packaging Design LeadLocation: Bradford - Hybrid Working OR Remote Working for the right candidateSalary: DOECompany: A leading packaging and branding agency.Role: We're looking for a Packaging Design Lead to support our clients major account, with a strong background in retail packaging design. You will be capable of bridging the gap between upstream creative and downstream adaptive - creatively strong enough to lead the work, but practical enough to make sure the creative intent can be delivered successfully at scale.The ideal candidate will be a strong creative thinker, but importantly, someone who understands how great creative needs to flex downstream into adaptive design and rollout. They need to be able to develop and protect the creative vision while also considering how that design will work across larger ranges, multiple SKUs and different packaging formats.This is also a client-facing role, so we're looking for someone confident and articulate who can present creative work back to the client, explain the thinking behind it, respond constructively to feedback and build strong relationships.

Requirements

• Strong creative and design capability
• Significant retail packaging experience - essential
• Experience taking creative concepts through into adaptive design and rollout
• Good understanding of designing for ranges and multiple packaging formats
• Confident and credible client-facing presentation skills
• Commercially minded, with an understanding of the realities of delivering creative at scale
• Collaborative and comfortable working across creative, adaptive and client service teams
• Broader US retail/packaging experience would also be a bonus

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