Graduate Packaging Designer

The British flower market is worth £1.2bn and MM Flowers supplies fresh cut flowers and bouquets to the U.K.’s and Europe’s leading flower retailers. We grow and source the highest quality and most beautiful blooms across the world, delivering colour, passion, and inspiration through breath-taking bouquets.

Established in 2007, MM Flowers has grown exponentially every year and is based in a purpose built, state-of-the-art facility in Alconbury, Huntingdon. MM Flowers employs over 1000 people who are dedicated to delivering exceptional quality and service to our customers.

MM Flowers’ values and behaviours form the basis of our culture and are a guide to the way we work as individuals, in teams and with our customers, They can be used as a guide and a reference to support processes such as team development, performance management, recruitment, identification of talent, and on-going coaching to support the delivery of our ambitious growth plans.

Creating Meaningful Moments that do good for people, and our planet.

We are looking for a Graduate Packaging Designer to plays a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth execution and organisation of the NPD (New Product Development) processes and documentation. This position involves a wide range of responsibilities, from managing comprehensive product documents to supporting the coordination and delivery of samples for customer requests. A key aspect of the role is maintaining high standards of documentation for each product developed, ensuring all visual and written materials are accurate and up-to-date in a timely manner.

Additionally, the GPD supports various team functions, including assisting designers with their tasks, coordinating the artwork process for gifting and flowers, and facilitating customer presentations and critical paths. Effective communication and collaboration with team members and external partners are essential to meet deadlines and fulfil customer requirements. The ideal candidate will be a strong communicator, with a logical and pragmatic mindset who is able to cope in a fast paced and high pressure environment. While the role is focused around administration and coordination, a creative flare and passion for packaging is vital.

Core Responsibilities

• Maintain comprehensive and organised packaging specs for each component, ensuring all customer requirements are met and updated regularly.
• Assist the NPD Packaging Manager with tasks such as sample preparation and marketing quality mock-ups, maintaining productivity and quality standards.
• Accurately create artwork and new graphic designs in adherence with customer brand guidelines
• Photograph each new product/sample and upload the images into the respective documents, ensuring high-quality visuals are available for reference.
• Own the artwork coordination process. Understand critical path requirements, general print processes and send around artwork for approval both internally and externally where required.
• Attend pre-print meetings and first print sign offs where applicable, ensuring adherence to customers colour and print guidelines
• Keep comprehensive and accurate control of the cutter guide library and artwork versions. Ensuring proper version control at all times.
• Maintain the raw material master sheet, regularly updating Rubicon codes and sourcing information with the support of the Procurement and Technical teams.
• Complete customer-specific documentation accurately and in a timely manner, ensuring all customer requirements are fulfilled.
• Support the Studio Manager in the ordering of raw materials through various channels where needed
• Book courier collections and deliveries to and from customers as required, coordinating with the Studio Manager for approval and scheduling.
• Maintain a comprehensive packaging style guide book that showcases the designs created by the team and external sources of inspiration, ensuring it is up-to-date and visually appealing.
• Review and label any deviation or notes regarding samples, prior to customer meetings.
• Set up and dismantle the meeting room for customer presentations, ensuring a professional and welcoming environment. Ensure refreshments are booked for customer meetings.
• Support the Studio Manager and NPD Managers by ordering development samples as needed, ensuring all required materials are available for ongoing projects.
• Coordinate the sending of samples for customer Public Relations (PR) requests, including booking transport and preparing samples as required.
• Assist New Product Development (NPD) Managers with various tasks as needed, ensuring efficient workflow and timely completion of tasks.

What you can already do:

• Qualifications accepted in packaging or graphic design.
• Organisational skills
• Responsiveness to requests for support
• Accuracy of data input and quality of information maintenance
• Quality of photography
• Quality of Adobe Illustrator designs
• Communication skills
• Team player and relationship building

So, what’s the package? When you work at MM Flowers you get more than just a salary.

• Holiday allowances are calculated on the days worked and you can find your allowance in your offer letter.
• Pension Scheme – You will be auto-enrolled onto the company pension scheme after 3 months. At present we operate an auto enrolment scheme where you will benefit from contributions from us.
• Onsite Parking – free parking is available onsite.
• Recommend a Friend Scheme – £250 is payable to you when you recommend a friend who is successful through the application process and successfully completes their 3-month probationary period.
• Career Progression – we actively encourage employees from within the business to consider roles which become available and whether that be within their field or want to consider a cross functional move.
• Wonderful working environment– we are all working in a modern contemporary purpose-built State of the Art facility.
• We are committed to an open ethical and fair working environment and have a Whistleblowing Policy in place to ensure complaints and concerns are handled appropriately.
• We work with an Occupational Health provider to support employees both mentally and physically.
• We run corporate engagement initiatives throughout the year.
• We gather employee feedback annually to see how we can improve the employee experience.
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What are you waiting for, we would love to hear from you!

If this position doesn’t match your experience but you love the sound of MM Flowers we welcome speculative applicants, please forward your cv and a covering letter about the type of role or function you are interested in being considered for.

MM Flowers are a proud equal opportunity employer, and we understand the benefits of nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, genetic information. Applicants who require a reasonable accommodation to complete the job role advertised are encouraged to apply.

We believe we can only achieve our potential if we employ a diverse population of people, ideas, and perspectives. We are committed to grow our workplace culture, encouraging team members to feel unique valued and engaged, enabling them to achieve their full potential.

All recruitment activities go through our internal Talent Acquisition Team and currently, this role doesn’t require agency input. Please do not forward resumes directly to MM Flowers employees/managers; we do not accept unsolicited resumes and are not responsible for any associated fees.