Senior Designer - packaging

POSITION SUMMARY

Do you crave a creative environment where unconventional thinking is actively encouraged? Are you willing to take risks and champion new ideas? We’re looking for a senior packaging designer to lead the design process and bring our clients’ product vision to life, creating layouts and illustrations for a wide range of food packaging products. If you’re keen to advance your creative expertise as part of a passionate, dynamic team, this could be the role for you.

ACHIEVE

What is the role designed to do for the organization?

• Lead designer from concept through to completion, showing understanding strategic direction
• Delivery of strong conceptual thinking that delivers exciting designs
• Approaches projects with a strategic focus working with the Strategy Directors
• Build and deliver Equator presentations
• Identifying and reporting ongoing trends in food and drink, retail, design & packaging
• Work closely with the Account Team to deliver on projects and present into clients
• Leads the creation of case studies, awards and content for internal comms and social media
• Interaction with the photo studio, Art Directing own photoshoots
• Proactively engage with wider creative teams across sites to understand ongoing projects
• Mentor junior colleagues
• Collaborate with the team onsite at our Mississauga office two days a week

DISPLAY

What behaviors, technical capabilities and other attributes should the fully proficient person in this role display?

• Collaboration – Confidently working on shared objectives as part of a team or as the lead
• Communicates Effectively – Confidently communicate ideas and present across sites and to clients
• Self Development – Builds on knowledge in category, creative and production, continual learning
• Plan & Aligns – Ability to plan their time and others to consistently hit deadlines
• Customer Focus – Introduction to key client contacts to start building relationship
• Strong use of the Adobe Suite of Programmes
• Full working knowledge of Print processes and how to design for the different types
• Extensive experience of designing for Packaging
• Ability to deliver strategic solutions to a brief
• Strong Typographic & Sketching ability

DELIVER

What is the role required to deliver to the organization?

• Strong, unique creative design concepts across multiple ranges
• Fully understands and champions the Equator process. Supports junior team members
• Clean and accurate file builds with an understanding of print process, font and colour usage
• Engaging ideas that deliver and challenge the brief
• Working as part of the senior creative team to deliver for clients
• Resource to the client service team as project or range guardian
• Insights and reports into trends and developments
• Proactive & friendly studio support to both junior designers and other departments

EXPERIENCE

We’re looking for someone who:

• Academic Background: Must possess a degree (or international equivalent) in graphic design, fine arts or packaging design.
• Has five (5) years of experience in food and beverage packaging graphic design.
• Has experience of developing graphic design strategies, including analyzing, researching and creating/developing visual solutions.
• Knowledge of flexography, lithography, rotogravure, dry offset, and computer programs (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign) - gained from university/college-level learning or hands-on experience.
• Share a portfolio with a minimum of 5 examples of different food or beverage packaging design projects to showcase your skills and experience.
• Can occasionally travel either locally, nationally, and/or internationally for client projects.
• The salary range for this role is $85,000 - $90,000. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may change in the future. Pay within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

PHYSICAL ASPECTS / WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Regularly required to stand; walk; sit; and talk, hear and see.  
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. 
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

* Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

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