Packaging & Product Designer

Craft; Manchester; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Enhanced pension

Job summary

Craft in Manchester is seeking a packaging designer to own the brand's physical face as it moves to high-street and premium retail. You’ll take products from initial sketch to finished item on a shelf, turning concepts into drawings, technical specs and mock-ups, and working directly with suppliers through sampling and approvals.

You’ll design packaging and PR boxes for unboxing, prepare print-ready artwork for production and international markets, and help shape the range by tracking category

Qualifications

• Four years' experience in product, packaging or packaging design, preferably cosmetics.
• Experience taking products through sampling to finished production and working with suppliers on proofs.
• Knowledge of cosmetics labeling rules.

Responsibilities

• Turn concepts into 2D/3D drawings, specs and 3D mock-ups.
• Work with suppliers through sampling and sign-off on production quality.
• Design packaging and PR boxes for unboxing content; prepare print-ready artwork for production.
• Monitor market directions to help shape range.

Skills

Sketching

CAD

Spec packs

Supplier liaison

Tools

AutoCAD

Print production

Job description

Most packaging design jobs are maintenance - you inherit a visual system someone else built and keep it running. This isn't that.

You'd own the physical identity of one of Europe's number-one cosmetic brands - product, packaging and PR boxes - at the moment it's moving from online cult favourite to serious high-street and premium-retail players. That means your work isn't back-catalogue upkeep; it's the brand's physical face during a genuine land-grab.

The Role

You’ll take products from the first sketch to the finished item on a shelf - not concept decks handed off to someone else. You sit with product development from the earliest idea, turning concepts into 2D and 3D drawings, technical specs and 3D-printed mock-ups, then work directly with suppliers through sampling and sign off on production quality yourself.

You'll design packaging and PR boxes built to show up in unboxing content, prepare print-ready artwork for production and international markets, and track where the category is heading to shape range direction. Design is pulled into the room from the first concept session here, not treated as the final step. Within twelve months, the expectation is that a material, format or product idea you sourced makes it into the range.

The Package

25 days holiday

Enhanced pension

The Person

You're a product, accessory or packaging Designer with around four years' experience, including time inside a beauty or consumer goods brand.

You've taken products through sampling to finished production and dealt directly with suppliers on proofs, cutting templates and deadlines. You hand a printer files that need no correction, you know cosmetics labelling rules, and you're genuinely hands-on across sketching, CAD and spec packs.

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