Senior Packaging Designer

A key member of our Global Design team, we are looking for a Senior Packaging Designer to join our global creative team and help shape the future of the brand through beautifully crafted, innovative packaging. As Senior Packaging Designer, you’ll lead the design and development of packaging across our products, kits and gifting collateral, from concept through to design and artwork. You’ll play a critical role in translating brand guidelines and visual direction into standout premium packaging.

Reporting to the Global Head of Design and working within the Global Design team, you will collaborate closely with other senior designers on communicating the creative direction and upholding the brand’s visual identity. Working closely with the packaging project manager, NPD and regulatory teams to bring designs into production and to our customers. We’re looking for a creative and detail-driven designer that ensures visual consistency and excellence while bringing a refined design eye, strong conceptual thinking, and clear communication to every stage of the process.

• Creation of visually compelling, on-brand packaging concepts across all ELEMIS product formats.
• Pairing creative thinking with knowledge of materials and finishes to create tactile brand experiences.
• Develop design direction into artworks with exceptional eye for detail, typography, and user experience.
• Push creative boundaries across form, typography, colour, and finishes.
• Ability to apply a refined understanding of luxury design cues to elevate design where relevant.
• Work closely with the Global Head of Design to interpret and translate overarching creative vision into refined, on-brand packaging solutions.
• Deep understanding of print processes, materials, and packaging production and able to create print-ready artwork with precision and accuracy.
• Elevate the creative standard for packaging design across the brand while maintaining and evolving a consistent design system for efficiency and brand positioning.
• Work with the packaging project manager to ensure output is delivered according to milestones and deadlines.
• Advising on timelines and managing priorities across multiple projects.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with wider teams (NPD and regulatory) to ensure all designs meet global technical, regulatory, and sustainability requirements and incorporating feedback when necessary.
• Present designs clearly, articulating the strategy and thinking behind your work to both creative and non-creative stakeholders.
• Navigate feedback effectively, refining and elevating work to achieve the best creative outcome with contributions from wider teams and senior stakeholders.
• Adapt designs and artworks across formats, maintaining consistency across sizes, platforms, and languages.
• Champion high standards of design excellence and attention to detail.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of trends in design, packaging, beauty and skincare to keep the brand fresh and relevant.
• Work within existing brand guidelines while also developing and implementing any changes to our brand assets and visuals as they evolve.

• Design capability: skilled designer with a sharp eye for colour, composition, typography, and format-specific print design considerations.
• Creativity: takes inspiration from various sources and applies creative flair with the confidence to experiment and test.
• Keen to innovate with a knowledge of current trends and technical developments.
• Prioritisation: able to manage competing priorities and project deadlines to deliver the goals.
• Also able to confidently advise on project timelines and resource.
• Communication: builds relationships across the team, able to maintain open lines of communication with Global Head of Design and Marketing Ops, proactively seeks feedback and able to manage expectations.
• Attention to detail: pays attention to detail to ensure output is to design direction, follows regulations and is consistent across projects.
• Applies a critical lens to ensure adherence to guidelines.
• Comfortable with ambiguity: able to take action and make decisions with good judgement, sometimes in the absence of information or instruction.
• Programs: Excellent skills in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) and Figma or equivalent design platforms. Jira is also helpful.
• Process orientation: experience working within and building upon brand guidelines, applying design systems and navigating business processes to deliver goals.

• We operate a Hybrid Working Policy which means three days in our Baker Street (London) offices and two days working from home.
• We also offer flexible working hours, core hours are between 10am - 4pm.
• 27 days holidays plus your birthday off.
• Generous Staff Discount on all your favourite ELEMIS products and spa treatments, as well as discounts on L'OCCITANE Group products (including L'Occitane, Erborian and more).
• Company Pension Scheme.
• Healthcare Cash Plan (with Dental).
• Access to Medicash Plan - which covers a broad range of medical services.
• Employee Assistance Programme for all Associates and their families.
• Cycle to Work Scheme, Season Ticket Loan, Length of Service Awards.
• Much, much more.

Some benefit eligibility is based on length of service or contract type.