Senior Packaging and Graphic Designer

OVERVIEW

Designer Parfums is a fast-growing, dynamic global fragrance company in the perfume & cosmetics industry, with a UK base in London and international ambition, with active business in around 80 markets.

We are a family-owned business, and we are proud to create, develop, and distribute brands from a fantastic portfolio of heritage classics to celebrity trend-led & lifestyle fragrances. We are brand owners and licensees for GHOST, JENNIFER LOPEZ, HAWAIIAN TROPIC, CERRUTI, PLAYBOY & JEAN LOUIS SCHERRER and proud to be distributors for ARIANA GRANDE, GUY LAROCHE, PALOMA PICASSO, AIGNER & GANT.

Our employees make our business special. With strong family values, we believe that Designer Parfums is a more prosperous and fun place to work where people feel free to be themselves. We believe in the power of being Ambitious, Agile and Approachable while meeting our business goals.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ROLE REQUIRES WORKING 4 DAYS FROM THE OFFICE AND 1 FROM HOME.

JOB PURPOSE

A senior Packaging and Graphic Designer at Designer Parfums is an excellent all-round creative person who is passionate about using their design skills and creative thinking for solving marketing and design challenges. We are looking for someone who is able flex their skills as and when required and can ideally dabble in everything from concept creation through to packaging + products and campaign digital and PoS assesys development, branding illustration, animation, 3D design.

Your job will be to take our incredible brand portfolio and assist creatively. You will lead on creating original, highly creative design solutions across a broad range of creative projects and campaigns that create impact and conversation within the fragrance and beauty industry.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

To lead on the design of end-to-end creative projects for a broad range of requests, such as Packaging, POSM, web and social assets. You will draw on insight and market research to understand audiences, generate ideas and create engaging visual communications that will engage and excite our target market.

• Encompasses all aspects of a Senior Creative, shifting as necessary from design to artworking, from film directing to product design, from press passing to innovation sourcing, from photoshoots to competitor analysis.

• Able to work simultaneously on multiple projects for multiple brands at the same time, and have full knowledge and understanding of each with laser precision.

• A passion for all things design, the arts, photography, culture, retail and fragrance and be tapped into the zeitgeist, trend forecasting and developments in society, and utilise all this effectively in your Research, Design and Development process.

• RDD process should encompass a holistic approach, factoring in aesthetics, impact, cost, technical constraints, commerciality, brand and marketing strategy international markets, etc and know when to give more emphasis to other aspects beyond design.

• Understands the nature of working with an external client (licence holder) and familiar with the complexities of approvals and changes of direction that may arise.

• Be a brand guardian, fully researching and immersing into the brands history, identity and future. Always maintaining and upholding the brand ethos, guidelines and standards across all output without fail.

• Work closely and build a strong relationship with Brand Managers to deliver the best assets and content together and work collaboratively on new concepts.

• Presents their work and pitches their ideas to key stakeholders, internal teams, suppliers and licence holders with enthusiasm, self-belief and bulletproof knowledge.

• Works effectively with and communicates well with multiple people across all levels of the company of various backgrounds.

• Is excited to collaborate across internal departments and external agencies.

• Can guide external agencies on the brand vision and step in when necessary.

• Able to adapt to changing priorities and parameters and able to find solutions quickly.

• See projects through from concept, strategy, creation, resolution, to production and how it is then shared with the world.

• Take responsibility and pride in their work. Ownership for the positives and negatives and knows when to adapt and learn along the way.

• Asks smart questions, unafraid to takes risks, and champions new ideas.

• Willing to push the boundaries whilst maintaining the brand image.

• Knows how to manage time and multiple projects well/ rely on and work well with traffic manager/ brand managers to organise, prioritise and deliver projects to the highest standards and on time.

• Ability to communicate effectively with non-native English speakers, internally and externally.

REQUIREMENTS

• Self-motivated and organised with meticulous attention to detail

▪ An out-the-box thinker and a lover of all things design, art & strategy

• 10+ years of agency experience and/or a Portfolio to match

• Be educated to a degree level or an equivalent qualification in design and/or have an outstanding creative portfolio demonstrating experience across a range of creative disciplines

• Vast experience and expert knowledge of working across all platforms and media i.e. POS and In-Store material, Product Design and Packaging, Social Media content, Digital, Ecommerce, Events and Experiential, AR & VR, Advertising and Film.

• Advanced skills in Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign.

• Experience in Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Substance 3D or equivalent modelling software is a plus

• Excellent knowledge and experience with print/ packaging. Familiar with the full printing process and the use of finishes and incredible eye for colour, detail and quality

• Experience in designing assets for the web and understanding of basic UX practice in web design

• Experience in animation and video is a big plus

• 3D Motion Design - moving content creation part that would be beneficial for animations, animating the 3D render assets created for brands for unlimited social media content would be a plus

• Understanding of gaming design, AR and VR would be a plus

• Photography studio experience beneficial if we create our own in house studio in the future

• Industrial/Product/ CAD Design would be a plus - This would bridge between Design and NPD, with an emphasis on unique/ bespoke bottle designs/ ancillary design innovations, that are not made from stock componentry and would replace some work that external agencies are currently doing.