Junior Design Excellence Designer Branding/Packaging in Slough

Marketing Excellence

Marketing is at the heart of Reckitt. We pride ourselves on our unique way of driving growth for some of the world’s most loved and trusted health, hygiene and nutrition brands. Our purpose and fight are what motivates us to design and deliver distinctive communications throughout our consumer funnel, so that we deliver category growth as well as a positive impact on society. With extensive media and digital teams embedded throughout the organisation, we measure both our business and our societal impact. Our global teams lead on our overarching brand strategy, brand guardianship and innovation pipeline in close partnership with R&D. Leaving our local marketing teams to deliver on our regional goals in partnership with our Sales teams. With the scale of our 2500 marketing community – alongside our leading-edge Marketing Academy – your opportunities to grow and upskill will be extensive.

About the role

Are you passionate about creating design solutions that resonate with global audiences and shape brand experiences? As the Junior Design Excellence Designer Branding/Packaging at Reckitt, you’ll be the visionary who transforms strategy into compelling design narratives. This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in evolving the visual language of a dynamic, purpose-led company. Your designs will not just be seen — they’ll be felt, bringing our brand’s ethos into the lives of consumers worldwide.

Your responsibilities

The Designer – Branding & Packaging is a hands-on creative role responsible for crafting visually distinctive, strategically aligned packaging and branding design for Reckitt’s Powerbrands. This role works under the guidance of the Design Lead – Branding/Packaging to develop and deliver high-quality visual assets that drive shelf impact, reinforce brand equity, and meet category objectives.

This is a junior position, ideal for a designer with strong technical skills, brand sensibility, and a passion for creating design work that connects with consumers across global markets.

The experience we’re looking for

1. Branding & Packaging
   • Design Execution Design and refine packaging layouts, product branding, and visual identities that align with category guidelines and brand toolkits.
   • Translate strategy, consumer insights, and creative briefs into effective, compelling visual solutions.
   • Support concept development, material exploration, and innovation in branding execution.
   • Collaborate with the Design Lead to maintain consistency across ranges, SKUs, and markets.
2. Technical Craft & Artwork Preparation
   • Build production-ready artwork files for packaging and branding applications across print and digital.
   • Apply strong attention to detail in typography, colour, imagery, layout, and hierarchy.
   • Liaise with the Design Activation and Print teams to ensure artwork aligns with technical print and deployment standards.
   • Assist with visual mockups, hero image creation, and other presentation materials.
3. Collaboration & Cross-Functional Support
   • Work with internal teams (Design, Marketing, R&D, Commercial) to deliver against project timelines and briefs.
   • Partner with external creative agencies or freelancers when needed to scale delivery.
   • Participate in creative reviews, design critiques, and category workshops.
   • Help ensure that Reckitt’s brand world is visually and consistently brought to life across consumer-facing touchpoints.
4. Innovation & Design Exploration
   • Stay up to date on branding, packaging, material, and sustainability trends.
   • Contribute ideas during brainstorms, ideation sessions, and innovation sprints.
   • Leverage AI and automation tools where applicable to streamline workflows and enhance output quality.
   • Collaborate with other specialist designers (e.g. Illustration, 3D, Digital) to build cohesive brand experiences.

The skills for success

Brand Strategy, Presentation skills, Drive Innovation, Storytelling, Creativity, Digital Marketing, Commercial acumen, Collaboration, FMCG/Consumer Health Experience.

Competencies

• Change Agility
• Cultural Fit (overall)
• Functional Expertise
• Leadership Behaviour – Care
• Leadership Behaviour – Create
• Leadership Behaviour – Deliver
• Leadership Behaviour – Own
• Leadership Competencies (Overall)
• Mental Agility
• People Agility
• Results Agility

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt’s potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt’s pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. That’s why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.