Location: Manchester

Type: Permanent

Industry: FMCG

Job Ref: TGN5038

Creative Graphic/Packaging Designer to join a fast growing, successful, FMCG company who supply both private label and branded products to highly successful leading retailers worldwide.

Duties

• Work on various in-house brands alongside  other graphic designers and artworkers
• Creating customer-facing presentations to a high-quality standard.
• Artwork concepts presented as a style guide and or product CADs created to represent the final products.
• Working with product developers to ensure all products meet the customer requirements in various ways, such as, aesthetically, meeting cost requirements and adhering to brand guidelines.
• Creating trend presentations from research gathered by our development team
• Create specification documents to handover creative jobs to the artwork team.
• Maintain brand identity and consistency across various media for a variety of brands; these may include, product and packaging, marketing materials and digital assets for web and social media.
• Maintaining an excellent quality of design work using our current methods and work processes, but also helping to improve our design output and offering new and exciting ways to present to customers.

Experience

• The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3 years Design experience
• Strong concept design ability.
• Experience in packaging design.
• Able to bring ideas to life on screen, either with a focused direction or from own initiative.
• Expert knowledge of Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop.
• Knowledge of various other design applications, such as, InDesign and Acrobat.
• Up to date with current trends and practices of CAD visuals and methods.
• Good knowledge of the printing process.
• Experience in a similar role.
• Experience in packaging design.
• Experience working with large scale brands.
• Preferable Skills (but not essential)
• Experience in 3D modelling and animation.
• Knowledge of web design.
• Knowledge of Adobe After Effects.
• A passion or understanding of beauty and skincare products.