Sr. Package Designer

Haddad is a privately held family business with over 100 years of experience in the children’s apparel & accessories industry. A leader in the industry, Haddad Brands is the exclusive global licensee for the most iconic brands in the world, including Nike, Jordan, Converse, Hurley, Levi’s, Polo, Abercrombie and Fitch, Lacoste, and Huggies. Supported by a team of professionals skilled in design, sourcing, production, sales, marketing & distribution of premium quality children’s wear, Haddad distributes globally to 100+ countries and maintains sales and sourcing offices in 22 cities globally, including New York, Paris, Hilversum, Shanghai, Egypt, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Montreal. 

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.

Key Accountabilities:

• 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.