Print & Packaging Assistant Designer - Own Label

We are seeking a talented and highly organized Print & Packaging Assistant Designer to join our Harrods Own Label team on a full-time basis.

As we celebrate this momentous anniversary year, now more than ever, it’s an exciting time to join the Harrods Team. Whether you’re a recent school, college or university leaver, or you’re looking to restart your career in an exciting new field, at Harrods we firmly believe in offering exciting career opportunities.

About the Role

As an Assistant Print & Packaging Designer, you will be responsible for demonstrating excellent layout skills, typography, and retouching abilities. Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and presentation programs (PowerPoint, Keynote), you will create digital art and assets that ensure the delivery of best-in-class products and innovative designs.

You will collaborate closely with the Buying, Merchandising, and Garment Tech teams, managing and delivering against key dates efficiently. Your insights on new trends and opportunities will contribute to the seasonal strategy, and you will assist in creating print and packaging mood boards while researching category trends.

Your responsibilities will also include:

• Driving customer acquisition, quality, and brand equity through packaging decisions.
• Ensuring quick and efficient delivery of design elements in response to sales opportunities.
• Developing best-in-class products in line with the strategic design direction.
• Creating and amending individual print designs, manage colours, layers, and distribution to suppliers.
• Assisting in managing packaging details, including typography, graphic layout, and print specifications.
• Ensuring packaging is developed from concept to detailed design brief, achieving right-first-time samples.
• Understanding suppliers' print capabilities and ensure correct interpretation of design briefs.
• Collating and communicating pre-season inputs from suppliers, providing clear feedback to the team.

About You

You will be someone who possesses a deep understanding of the bridge and luxury retail landscape, having built extensive knowledge over the course of your experience that you can leverage to the Harrods’ advantage. You’ll be highly creative with an exceptional taste level, ensuring your designs align with our prestigious brand. You will also be highly organized, able to manage multiple projects efficiently, and maintain a flexible approach to adapt to the dynamic needs of the luxury retail environment.

You will also be:

• Creative, innovative and driven.
• Confident to challenge and represent what good looks like to the wider business.
• Positive, ‘can-do’ outlook.
• Strong stakeholder management with influencing skills and be able to bring people on our journey.
• Consistently strive for exceptional result.

About Us

Our 175th anniversary will see the Knightsbridge store become a stage for our legacy of firsts, our house of world-leading brands and our reputation for exceptional. We want you to come and be a part of all this - and help us deliver exceptional service that represents our authority as a long-standing icon, industry-leader and innovator. Inspired by our past, celebrating our present and focusing on our future, you’ll be joining a team with the belief that anything is possible. What makes you different makes us exceptional.

Our Promise to You

Help us make the impossible possible for our customers and we’ll do something remarkable for you. As well as offering a friendly environment to inspire your best work, we provide abundant opportunities and support to build an exceptional career across the varied specialisms of our business. 

In return you’ll receive an excellent benefits package, including a company pension, flexible working, 25 days’ holiday, and your birthday off, up to 33% in-store discount (including across our food hall and restaurants) and a season ticket loan.

Uniquely You

At Harrods we believe the personality and authenticity of our people sets us apart. We celebrate and invite applications from all cultures, backgrounds, tastes, and experiences and are proud of our culture where people from all walks of life can grow and thrive. What makes you unique makes us exceptional.

While our job adverts outline the ideal qualities, skills, and prior experience for the role, we believe in the potential for growth and value individual strengths. If you do not meet every desired criteria but feel you have the skills and experience to thrive in this role as well as a genuine interest in working for Harrods and you can demonstrate an alignment with our values, we would encourage you to apply.

If you want to know more about our people and our culture, search #TogetherHarrods on LinkedIn, Facebook or follow us on Instagram @togetherharrods