Packaging Art Designer- 12 Month Contract

About Flora Food Group

We offer consumers a compelling choice in four growing categories: butters and spreads, creams, liquids and cheeses. We hold leadership positions in many of the 100 countries we operate in, with iconic brands including Flora, Becel+ProActiv, Blue Band, Country Crock, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Rama, and Violife, together with our local brands and Professional business.  

Global branded food champion Flora Food Group, offers the next generation of delicious, natural, nutritious food. Our products are more affordable and more sustainable than their dairy equivalents.  

Packaging Artwork Designer

Hackensack, NJ 2/3 days per week

9–15-month contract- Estimated at 90K annually

We will require a portfolio/website with your Brand Art work sent if you move forward to next steps

About The Role

We are seeking a talented and detail-oriented Graphic Designer specialized in packaging artwork creation to join our Design & Consumer Experience team at Flora Food Group. This role will work across our iconic portfolio of brands, delivering best-in-class packaging design solutions that drive brand impact on shelf and beyond.

The Packaging Artwork Designer will be responsible for developing, adapting, and finalizing packaging artworks, ensuring design excellence, technical accuracy, and consistency across formats and markets. Beyond artwork execution, this role offers the opportunity to contribute creatively to brand design evolution and holistic activations across all consumer touchpoints.

Key Responsibilities

• Create, adapt, and finalize packaging artworks across multiple brands and formats, ensuring compliance with brand guidelines and print specifications.
• Collaborate closely with the Design team, as well as cross-functional partners in Innovation and Brand teams, to deliver packaging solutions that balance creativity and technical feasibility.
• Ensure artworks are fully print-ready, considering color management, typography, image resolution, die lines, barcodes, and regulatory requirements.
• Work with external agencies, pre-press suppliers, and printers to guarantee high-quality execution.
• Stay up to date with the latest printing technologies and processes (e.g., offset, flexography, digital, gravure) and apply best practices to projects.
• Support the creative development of brand design systems, exploring new visual codes and extending identity beyond pack to holistic brand experiences.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining high standards of quality and attention to detail.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, or related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• Proven experience in packaging artwork creation, preferably within FMCG or consumer brands.
• Strong proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign); knowledge of Acrobat for pre-press checks is a plus.
• Familiarity with artwork production tools and processes, including:
• Color management (Pantone, CMYK, Spot colors)
• Pre-press requirements (trapping, overprint, bleed, diel ines)
• File preparation for multiple printing methods (flexo, offset, digital, gravure)
• Excellent eye for detail, typography, and layout.
• Ability to translate creative concepts into technically feasible and print-ready solutions.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
• Collaborative mindset, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams (Innovation, Brand, Marketing, Supply Chain).
• Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to work on some of the most iconic food brands within Flora Food Group.
• A role that combines technical expertise with creative contribution, influencing both packaging and broader brand design.
• A collaborative and dynamic work environment where design is at the heart of brand building.

What’S Next

If this position sounds interesting, please hit the apply button now! 

We understand your resume might not be up to date and recommend that you apply with what you have or your LinkedIn Profile. Flora Food Group is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workplace, we understand that you might not meet all the requirements stated in the description, but we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this role or other roles.  

Flora Food Group is an employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and equal opportunities for all. We recruit based only on values, qualifications, performance, skills, behaviours, experience, and knowledge. We ensure job advertisements are free from unintentional bias.  

No personal characteristics should be a barrier to joining Flora Food Group. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other personal characteristics.