Job Description
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. Packaging Designer is responsible for leading the packaging design strategy, team performance, and development processes across brands. This role sets direction, ensures consistency and quality, and drives cross-functional alignment while overseeing execution and guiding the packaging team.
Key Accountabilities:
- Oversee and direct packaging design and development across brands, ensuring alignment with brand strategy, quality standards, and business objectives
- Lead market research initiatives and present insights and opportunities to leadership for approval and implementation
- Establish and communicate packaging design standards, processes, and updates across cross-functional teams and vendors
- Oversee and guide the approval process for digital and physical submits, ensuring consistency in quality, color, materials, and finishes across all brands
- Lead cross-functional alignment across Design, Sales, Marketing, Product Approval, and Sourcing teams to ensure strategic and operational alignment
- Identify and review packaging design, material, and manufacturing strategies to improve cost, efficiency, and scalability; align with leadership on implementation
- Oversee vendor performance and resolve complex production, quality, and approval issues
- Ensure packaging sample schedules are maintained, proactively addressing risks and implementing solutions to meet deadlines
- Drive development and execution of on-brand packaging solutions across categories, ensuring consistency and innovation
- Oversee packaging audits and reviews to ensure accuracy, compliance, and quality standards
- Own communication of process updates, priorities, and key initiatives to internal teams and external partners
- Oversee and ensure accuracy of packaging approvals within VSN, maintain system integrity, tracking consistency, and visibility across teams and overseas offices
- Drive process improvements to enhance packaging development workflows, efficiency, and overall team performance
- Ensure all packaging meets seasonal calendar deadlines and business requirements
- Special projects as assigned
Required Skills/Abilities/Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Packaging Design, Graphic Design, or related field
- 7+ years of work experience in related field
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, including Outlook, Excel, Teams, and PowerPoint
- Proficient in Adobe Illustrator
- 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, flexible with changes, and collaborative
- Brand appropriate aesthetic
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.