Packaging Designer

Packaging Designer

Location: Purley, Surrey

Reports to: Design Director

Permanent position

About us

For over 30 years, Tjarks & Tjarks has been a leader in private label branding and packaging, creating design that wins at the retail shelf. We combine creativity, precision, and production expertise to deliver end-to-end design-to-artwork solutions for global retailers.

Our culture is built on reliability, consistency, and exceptional attention to detail. We’re hands-on, dependable, and obsessed with craft, delivering work that performs in the real world.

The Role:

We are now looking for a skilled Packaging Designer to join our growing team! You’ll take on design responsibilities, creating new, original and exciting design concepts as well as designs following specific brand guidelines.

You’ll look after design projects from initial briefing through to final presentation, checking and proof reading all designs and meeting required deadlines. You’ll also liaise directly with Account Managers to ensure full understanding of the client’s brief, along with attending design and project briefings.

Responsibilities:

• Assist with image searches for new design projects
• Make packaging mock-ups as required
• Work with style guides and brand guidelines to ensure brand compliance
• Follow brand guidelines for implementation, with creative flair and understanding of the market and brand philosophy
• Present designs on brief, on time, in budget and in line with the company’s values and to client satisfaction

About you:

• Conscientious, reliable, good attendance and timekeeping standards
• Excellent attention to detail and works with precision
• Effective project manager, able to manage workload
• Honest, trustworthy, and able to work unsupervised
• Demonstrates initiative, is creative and contributes ideas
• Pragmatic approach to problem solving without cutting corners
• Friendly, approachable, respectful and a positive team player.
• Flexible, adaptable, calm whilst working under pressure
• Professional with excellent communication skills.
• Proactive, takes ownership of daily tasks with a can-do attitude.
• Must be able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the business.