Senior Packaging Designers - Croydon, United Kingdom - Tropic Skin Care Ltd

Tropic Skin Care Ltd
Tropic Skin Care Ltd
Verified Company
Croydon, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Does your passion for skincare and beauty extend to the aesthetics of its packaging? Can you combine your creative flair and packaging design experience to produce the most premium, sustainable packing with a luxurious look and feel?


We're on the lookout for creative and innovative freelance
Senior Packaging Designers to join our vibrant Creative team on a freelance basis.

you will be responsible for creating fresh, eye-catching, and original packaging designs for Tropic's product range to supercharge our brand to the next level and beyond

Please note, this role is being offered on a hybrid basis. therefore, you will need to be available to work from our HQ, located in Croydon.

**Responsibilities

  • Leading packaging design and branding across all ranges.
  • Leading, developing and supporting the Design and Artwork teams.
  • Conceptualising, designing, and delivering new products and packaging in our core, limited edition and branded items ranges, and oneoff projects.
  • Delivering packaging concepts and designs, graphical treatments and material choices.
  • Presenting designs to the other designers, the CEO, and key stakeholders throughout the business.
  • Helping to create, update, and promote design guidelines, best practices, and standards.
  • Reviewing packaging samples, print artwork and print proofs.
  • Consistently meeting creative schedules and project requirements.
  • Working on special oneoff projects and collaborations crossfunctionally.
  • Advocate sustainability initiatives to reduce packaging waste where possible.
  • Understand technical limitations of print and relevant pack formats: bottles, labels, tubes, cartons etc.
  • Understanding product range design, building harmony, consistency and clear purpose across multiple products and functionalities.
  • Creating, developing, and translating Tropic's brand personality into packaging design.
  • Create and convey clear and compelling stories about design ideas, which builds trust in your concepts.
  • Diagnosing challenges and creatively solving them.
  • Working with Ambassador and customer feedback to enhance work.
**About You

  • At least 10 years of design experience with a strong experience in design packaging.
  • Be an advocate for sustainable packaging in material and process choices.
  • Expert in Adobe Indesign, Illustrator and Photoshop.
  • Experience in using CAD is desirable but not essential.
  • Sound experience with textures and physical packaging design.
  • Experience with various packaging materials as well as ecofriendly materials.
  • Understanding of ergo dynamic for both primary and secondary packaging.
  • Impeccable attention to detail.
  • Experience in developing, managing, and supporting a team.
  • Conceptual and strategic thinker with exceptional verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
  • Have a solid understanding of the technical limitations of print and relevant pack formats across multiple packaging types.
  • Experience working within reactive, fastpaced environments is essential.
**Additional

  • Fulltime: 9am 5pm, Monday to Friday.
  • Hybrid working.
  • Our Office is conveniently located a short walk from Beddington Lane Tram stop, which is connected to East Croydon and Wimbledon both 20 minutes away. Travel time from within South London is approximately minutes.
  • Free, onsite parking is available.
  • Day Rate: Subject to experience.
**About Tropic
At Tropic, beauty means the world to us.

This powerful drive to make a positive impact has seen Tropic grow from our founder and CEO, Susie, selling jam jars of Body Smooth at Greenwich Market, to one of the UK's fastest-growing beauty businesses on a mission to protect planet and people, one product at a time.


We have a plant-powered, clinically proven and multi-award-winning range boasting over 10,000 5* Trustpilot reviews and 300+ industry awards (and counting...).

As well as donating 10% of profits to charities and good causes (United World Schools, The Trussel Trust and Reef Restoration Foundation, to name a few), our products are freshly made at our Surrey HQ, with ingredients sustainably sourced from tropical regions around the world, and certified vegan, cruelty-free and CarbonNeutral.

Healthier. Greener. More empowered - that's the Infinite Purpose behind everything we do. Does this ethos sound like you? If you're a skincare and planet enthusiast, our dynamic, diverse, and talented team needs you
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