Lead Packaging

7 months ago


Banbury, United Kingdom Joma Jewellery and Katie Loxton Full time

**THE OPPORTUNITY**

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Creative team as Jewellery and Gifting Lead Packaging Designer, championing the Global Joma Jewellery and Katie Loxton brands. You will be driving the brand forward, increasing our positioning in the market as an affordable luxury brand. You will be actively progressing projects from conceptual stages all the way through to design delivery.

You will work directly with the Creative Director and Lead Designers to deliver new products on time and to budget. You will be responsible for leading packaging development including; communicating with suppliers, creative development and brand styling, whilst keeping the target audience in mind. You will be managing projects from start to finish with the wonderful opportunity to oversee and grow product personalisation. In addition to managing projects you will also be responsible for managing junior Packaging Designers.

This is a hybrid role, meaning you will be able to work from home and be based on our Head Office in Banbury, Oxfordshire 2-3 days a week on average, but may flex up or down dependent on business needs.

**BEHIND THE BRANDS**

We’re a family-run, entrepreneurial company with an exciting pace of life and a bright and friendly team. We are passionate about creating stunning products with a personal touch and innovating our business behind the scenes. We value creativity, collaboration and integrity.

**HOW YOU'LL CONTRIBUTE**
- Leading by example for the team, sharing extensive knowledge of product, processes and competitors to further design practise; in addition to ensuring consistency when delivering a cohesive on-brand collection
- Being involved in all stages of the POS and packaging development lifecycle, from research to identifying customer needs, concept curation and testing.
- Using your comprehensive understanding of the brand’s product and packaging development strategy and targets to manage junior members of the team
- Designing to brief using anticipation of trends and understanding of brand heritage, developing products that are visually attractive to target audience, made from reliable materials
- Being a great example of brand representation and vision to the other Designers, always inspiring, engaging and motivating the team
- Keeping sustainability in mind whilst creating concepts and designs
- Communicating clearly to Senior Design Manager on the progress of all project development and monitor targets to ensure the whole team are on track with quantities /targets and are on budget
- Working closely with the Product Designers to create cohesive packaging concepts for new collections
- Taking the lead in developing and delivering new personalisation offerings across both brands to ensure we are at the forefront of personalisation and always innovative
- Ensuring cross team implementation of new packaging and personalisation concept
- Concepting and developing new Packaging and POS for our B2B market ,ensuring designs are technically fit for purpose, on budget and visually appealing to customers
- Managing critical paths and working closely with the buying team to ensure all designs are achievable on time, to budget and fit for purpose
- Presenting concepts/ideas to the Creative Director and Senior Design Manager at points throughout the design process
- Creating presentation decks and competently present final design concepts to key stake holders in design sign off meetings

**THE TALENT YOU'LL BRING**
- Proven ability to deliver designs from Creative Concept to finished samples across both brands (e.g. Packaging, Artwork and POS)
- Design qualification preferably fashion or product design with a passion and enthusiasm related to jewellery, accessories and gifting
- Strong visual communication skills as well as excellent Adobe proficiency and hand drawing
- Able to demonstrate an exceptional level of accuracy in both written correspondence and numeracy
- Able to demonstrate excellent organisational skills in order to manage information flows and ensure that designs are delivered on schedule
- Keeping a high degree of confidentiality and integrity at all times
- Able to work pro-actively and with others, coupled with the ability to take the initiative and work autonomously
- Strong people management skills
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc.
- Experience of working in a fast paced environment
- Able to think on feet, be resourceful and take responsibility for projects
- A positive, can-do attitude and excellent team working skills
- Proven experience working independently under general instructions on a large variety of special projects

**PERFECTLY PACKAGED**
- A salary of £37,000 - £45,000 DOE
- 25 days holiday rising to 27 with length of service, plus bank holiday
- A broad benefits package including our staff favourite - a very generous staff discount across both our brands. See all of our benefits on our careers portal
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