Senior Design Specialist - Sydney
We are Woolworths Group
We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts, and unique perspectives across Australia and New Zealand. Connected by a shared Purpose - 'to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow'. That Purpose fuels our ambition to explore new ideas, make brave commitments, and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week.
If you're excited to turn today's blue-sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you'll find yourself supported and enriched in a dynamic, inclusive, and empowering workplace. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work, and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.
Senior Design Specialist- A team based in Sydney, join our creative and passionate team!
- Full time permanent opportunity
- Hybrid flexible environment
The Opportunity
We have an exciting opportunity for multiple experienced Senior Account Managers/ Senior Design Specialists to join our team. This role works to support, develop and implement the Packaging Design Guidelines for the specific Woolworths Own Brand including: style guide development across all categories and pack formats and execution of packaging design related projects as agreed with the Head of Design and relevant Brand Manager.To act as brand guardian responsible for ensuring we deliver the best possible packaging design that resonates with our customers.
What you'll do
Reporting to the Head of Design, you will play a key role and work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to lead the creative design process from brief development to design concept to photography - on brand and to time.- Strong Creative Judgment: Ability to evaluate creative, ensuring creative meets the objectives of the brief and providing clear and constructive feedback
- Team leader; lead, support and coach a team of design specialists, providing leadership, guidance and feedback on what excellence in packaging design looks like, ensuring best in class and high quality output of work
- Be the voice of the customer, utilising customer insights to drive decision making and to deliver against objectives.
- Leading and championing the ongoing review, evolution and refinement of our WFC design process. Communicating and developing clear strategies and direction across the total Brand Chapter to elevate expertise and drive consistency in ways of working
- Collaboration and development of ongoing partnerships across WFC, Commercial, Internal and external agencies and other key stakeholders.
- You’re driven by a customer mission and passionate about being part of a team of great people. Whatever you love - customer experience, business process, trading, leadership or data, you’re active in the community that sits around it.
- You orient around doing what’s meaningful, purposeful and delivers value. You’re excited about being part of the transformation of one of Australia’s biggest companies.
- You’re curious and empathetic, with an eye for the bigger picture. You are design literate with exceptional project management skills and have qualifications in Design, Project Management, Marketing, Brand Management, Business or Commerce and 1-3 years experience in Design / Project Management/Account Service (client or agency side)/ Marketing / Buying / Retail / Operations.
- If you have agency Account Management experience then this is your opportunity to gain client side experience.
- A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network
- Strong mentorship and development; opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia
- A progressive and flexible WFH policy that gives you more control over your work, life and wellbeing
- Access to Sonder. Sonder provides free confidential 24/7 personalised financial, medical safety, psychological or physical support for team members and their families
- Team member benefits across all of our brands
Please note that the Woolworths support office is closed for the festive season from 21 December 2024. We will return on Monday 6 January 2025 and will review your application after this date.
Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems.As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.
We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.
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