Sr. Package Designer

Overview

The Sr. Package Designer will work cross functionally with Design, Sales, Marketing and Sourcing teams to create and develop innovative packaging solutions for various apparel items.

• Coordinate and conduct market research to identify and present new opportunities to leadership for approval and subsequent implementation
• Own communication regarding any process updates to appropriate cross-functional teams to ensure alignment across departments and suppliers
• Oversee the design and development of cost effective, innovative, and consumer friendly hang tags and structural designs
• Identify packaging design, manufacturing, and materials needed to improve costs and productivity and review proposals with management
• Mediate submit (sample & production) comments between the Packaging team and appropriate cross-functional teams, ensuring comments are actioned accurately
• Work with Product Approval and Sourcing teams to resolve issues with vendor approvals, production changes, non-conforming packaging, and quality control processes
• Supervise the approval of digital and physical submits from vendors inclusive of color, substrate quality, and finishes
• Implement solutions for any issues with the packaging sample schedule to ensure deadlines are maintained
• Create on-brand solutions for each project to help maintain brand integrity while supporting execution efficiencies where applicable across the total category
• Work cross-functionally with Design and licensing partners to prepare and seek approval on all packaging requests
• Execute needed improvements or enhancements to structural design to comply with customer and market expectations and demands
• Ensure consistent and accurate packaging specifications through packaging audits/reviews from in-house and outside vendors
• Meet all deadlines in adherence to the seasonal design calendar
• Special projects as assigned

Required Skills/Abilities/

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Packaging Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, Fine Arts or related field
• 8+ years of work experience in packaging design (children’s wear knowledge a plus)
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, especially Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop as well as Microsoft Excel
• Ability to travel as needed
• Excellent organizational, communication and time management skills with excellent proof-reading skills with attention to detail
• Must be a strategic thinker, persuasive and collaborative

Consistent in‑office presence is vital to the role as it is for all Haddad Brands team members, so that we all have a full appreciation, aesthetically and tactilely, of the qualities that define our brand partners’ products and set them apart from their competitors.