About This Role
This role involves conceptualising and developing distinctive, innovative, and visually appealing packaging for a fast-growing beauty, fragrance, and personal care brand's upcoming bath and body product range. The designer will focus on products like body washes, lotions, scrubs, and mists, ensuring designs align with brand identity and manufacturing feasibility.
Responsibilities
- Develop creative packaging concepts aligned with BellaVita's brand identity, target audience, and product positioning
- Design packaging for bottles, tubes, jars, pumps, dispensers, labels, cartons, and other relevant product formats for bath and body products
- Work on colour palettes, typography, graphics, label layouts, and packaging aesthetics to create distinctive shelf appeal
- Explore suitable packaging materials, textures, coatings, finishes, and decoration techniques for bath and body products
- Prepare print-ready artwork, dielines, layouts, and technical specifications for packaging production
- Work closely with the NPD, Brand, Marketing, and Procurement teams to develop packaging from concept to final execution
- Coordinate with packaging manufacturers and suppliers to develop samples, review prototypes, and ensure production feasibility
- Ensure packaging designs meet quality standards, usability requirements, product compatibility, and cost considerations
- Research emerging bath and body packaging trends, competitor launches, consumer preferences, and innovative packaging formats
- Manage multiple packaging development projects while ensuring timely execution and launch readiness
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or diploma in Packaging Design, Product Design, Graphic Design, Applied Arts, or a related field
- Relevant experience in packaging design, preferably in bath and body, skincare, cosmetics, beauty, or personal care
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and relevant design tools
- Understanding of packaging materials, printing techniques, labelling, dielines, and production processes
- Strong creative visualisation, colour theory, typography, and design skills
- Ability to balance aesthetics, functionality, durability, cost, and manufacturing feasibility
- Strong coordination skills and attention to detail
Nice to have:
- Prior experience designing packaging for body washes, lotions, scrubs, body butters, shower gels, body mists, or similar products
- A portfolio showcasing packaging design projects in the beauty and personal care category
- Familiarity with bottles, tubes, jars, pumps, caps, dispensing systems, and secondary packaging
- Experience working with D2C beauty, skincare, or personal care brands
