Senior Packaging Designer

Craft Agency Ltd.; Bradford; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Career development infrastructure

Growing studio with international exp.

Job summary

Craft Agency Ltd. in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Designer to drive high-quality FMCG packaging for leading brands.

You’ll translate concepts into scalable design systems that endure across hundreds of SKUs while working alongside the Creative Director and Design Directors, mentoring junior designers. You’ll oversee in-house food photography, guide AI-enabled workflows, and present your thinking to major retail clients.

Qualifications

• Several years in FMCG packaging, agency or retailer in-house.
• Ability to build scalable brand systems across hundreds of SKUs.
• Experience art directing food photography.
• Mentor junior designers and collaborate cross-functionally.

Responsibilities

• Lead design concepts from idea to finished designs across FMCG packaging and branding projects.
• Build scalable design systems that hold up across hundreds of SKUs.
• Mentor junior designers and guide their development.
• Present your thinking directly to major retail clients.

Skills

FMCG packaging

Brand systems

Mentoring juniors

Art direction

Collaboration

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe Firefly

Job description

Creative thinking is what matters most here. This is a global agency looking for their next Senior Designer to help them keep transforming brands by delivering high-quality packaging for some of the biggest names out there.

The Role

You’ll take ideas from first concept to finished design across FMCG packaging and branded projects, but the real job is building design systems that hold up across hundreds of SKUs without losing the thinking that started them. You’ll sit alongside the Creative Director and Design Directors, and you’ll art direct food photography in-house, working with a studio that’s expanding from two rigs toward six or seven, with stylists and art directors being hired alongside.

The test is simple: three concepts across twenty lead lines and sixty-plus designs, and you keep both the idea sharp and the delivery calm. You’ll mentor junior designers, feed into how AI tools like Adobe Firefly sit in the workflow, and present your thinking directly to major retail clients.

The Package

• £45,000 – £50,000
• Hybrid working
• Established career development infrastructure
• A growing studio with international expansion

The Person

You’ve spent several years in FMCG packaging – agency or retailer in-house – and are either newly senior or two to three years in.

You’ve built brands and systems that scale across hundreds of SKUs; you art direct food photography, you handle volume without losing your composure, and you’re collaborative by instinct.