Senior Packaging & Concept Design Consultant to H&M Beauty

Job Description

We are looking for a senior Packaging & Concept designer, this is a freelance/consultant assignment for 2025, starting asap. You will work approximately 50-70% on site in our H&M Beauty office in the centre of Stockholm. You will be part of the Beauty marketing team, while your closest immediate collaborators and stakeholders will be with the Design team and Private label assortment team.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Work closely within the creative design team to develop new concepts and commercial designs for packaging-related projects across makeup, fragrance, beauty tools, and/or miniature beauty products
• Sketch and design packaging including primary components and secondary boxes
• Present work to related stakeholders and teams within the Beauty department and incorporate feedback as needed
• Research trends in packaging and across beauty/fashion landscape to stay up-to-date on new trends

WHO YOU ARE

We look for someone bringing the following experiences and strengths:

• 4-6+ years experience with packaging design for design agencies and/or in-house brands
• Strong ability to develop unique concepts and expressions within packaging based on trends and according to brief/brand guidelines
• Experience with beauty packaging and/or strong interest in the beauty sector
• Highly skilled with all Adobe platforms especially Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and main color-matching systems
• Demonstrate ability to sketch in 2D and render products and packaging components to demonstrate proof of concept
• Extremely attentive to detail and self-sufficient, you must be able to manage projects independently, timelines and communication with necessary stakeholders with ease
• A strong collaborator and ability to interpret feedback from various stakeholders into strong design solutions
• Passionate about and updated on latest global retail, beauty, fashion, and/or packaging trends
• Fluent in English (both written and spoken)

WHO WE ARE

H&M BEAUTY is capturing the enormous potential of the Beauty market by becoming the world's most fashionable beauty destination. On this journey, we have reimagined our entire private label portfolio within makeup and tools. And most recently, we successfully relaunched our own fragrance line. We also add trending external beauty brands to our offer, enabling our customers to complement their fashion looks with top beauty products.

JOIN US

This is an approximately 1year temporary consultant position of 50-70% work/week on site in our H&M Beauty office in the centre at Jakobsbergsgatan, Stockholm. Please note: This is NOT a remote work assignment!

Please apply as soon as possible, latest by 2nd March 2025, with CV and packaging design portfolio (max 10mb/uploaded document or compressed files). Please note: we will only be able to assess applications including portfolio. All documents should be in English and interviews will start immediately! (For internal candidates, please remember to initiate a dialogue with your current manager before applying.)

Due to private data policy we only accept applications through our career page.

We look forward to your application!