Designer

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✍️ Designer

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DS Smith

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1940

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

Food & Beverage • Logistics • Consulting

DS Smith is a provider of sustainable packaging solutions, paper products, and recycling services. The company focuses on innovation in packaging to support a circular economy, aiming to use recyclable materials and reduce plastic waste. DS Smith operates internationally, offering packaging for various industries, including consumer goods, industrial solutions, and retail. It emphasizes environmental sustainability and community engagement through strategic initiatives and partnerships. Additionally, DS Smith provides end-to-end retail services and advanced packaging systems.

📋 Description

• Work on retail marketing and POS design projects for major clients and support special projects across the Speciality team • Report to and support the Design team lead and Head of Creative and Innovation • Create and deliver original concepts for retail marketing, displays, and Point of Sale (POS), aligned with brand and retailer guidelines • Apply knowledge of consumer shopping and buying habits to new business tenders, marketing, agency days, and daily concepts • Review and manage project briefs, teamwork, budgets, and timelines • Support brainstorms and new business pitches • Support the wider SMI Speciality Cluster on innovation days and creative design • Communicate with clients and internal teams • Monitor industry trends to keep creative work fresh • Deliver client-briefed work on time and to a high standard • Challenge briefs and provide creative and strategic ideas • Drive creative studio efficiencies

🎯 Requirements

• Previous experience in Point of Sale (POS) and display design for FMCG and blue-chip organisations • Experience with 3D and 2D packages • Fluent in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop • Skills in animation, web, or digital design would be an advantage • Excellent eye for detail, layout, typography, and application of imagery • Experience working with brand and retailer guidelines and translating supplied assets into new ideas and concepts • Understanding of print production processes and material feasibility • Collaborative and strong communicator with team members and clients • Experience working to tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment • Enthusiastic, positive, can-do attitude and enjoyment of spontaneous team engagement • CV and portfolio link showcasing examples of work • Ability to travel to alternative DS Smith Speciality sites, subcontractor, client, or third-party sites when necessary

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays • Pension scheme • Life assurance and income protection • Employee Assistance Programme • Employee Discounts • Cycle to work scheme • Remote working arrangement