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Job ID 10118120 Location London, United Kingdom Business Disney Experiences Date posted May 09, 2025
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Job Summary:

About The Role & Team

Join our dynamic team at Disney and play a pivotal role in enhancing and growing the EMEA business. We are looking for a creative visionary who can deliver outstanding, trend-right, and consumer-focused solutions. Your work will help maintain our beloved character equity and storytelling, while building the Disney Consumer Products business and increasing the visibility of the Disney brand. You will lead the design and development of packaging and branding assets, ensuring they resonate with diverse audiences across all categories. Your creativity will drive the creation of inclusive and innovative design tools that reflect the magic of Disney for everyone.

This position is a full-time, 12-month fixed-term contract, with the expectation to work from our London office four days a week.

What You Will You Do

  • Collaborate with the EMEA Branding/Packaging team to develop creative assets that drive growth for Disney franchises. This includes trend research, initial concepts, final artwork for packaging style guides, individual packaging projects, and packaging pitches.
  • Partner with other consumer segments and product design teams to ensure creative alignment and support on broader projects as needed.
  • Ensure all assets meet creative and technical standards before approval by the Senior Branding Design Manager and other key stakeholders.
  • Contribute to the development of trend boards and new ideas (ideation) that bring innovation and freshness to future projects, building on existing strategies.
  • Adhere to corporate guidelines, ensuring character and design consistency and integrity in all work produced.
  • Foster effective relationships within the wider creative community, leveraging their expertise to create relevant designs that push boundaries.
  • Attend trade shows as needed to gain insights into the EMEA marketplace, seeking out new ideas and creative solutions to better understand the business.
  • Participate in creative brainstorming sessions with internal and external teams.
  • Provide necessary creative support, such as downloading, backing up, archiving, and creating digital presentations.
  • Collaborate closely with product teams, designers, and artists to maintain character and franchise integrity, ensuring synchronized design and art styles.
  • Work with the Line Manager to plan projects effectively, meeting deadlines and staying within budgets.

Required Qualifications & Skills

  • Proven commercial design experience in packaging at a Design Agency, Licensee, Retail head office or Supplier 
  • Strong background in brand packaging design
  • Ability to create both foundational design solutions and innovative, trend-right styles.
  • Awareness of marketplace trends in the design environment, with the ability to translate new concepts into marketable, saleable packaging for products.
  • Proficiency in understanding and applying color theory and usage.
  • Capability to work with and create cutter guides.
  • Skilled in Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and other creative suite packages.
  • Talent for inventively integrating DISNEY, PIXAR, STAR WARS, MARVEL, and Nat Geo into packaging design.
  • Expert understanding of all elements of design: illustration, pattern, page layout, color, packaging design, pack engineering, cutter guide generation, generating packaging artwork, and new trends, with the ability to create new graphic design assets and packaging from scratch.
  • Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team or independently to achieve goals.
  • Strong understanding of Disney characters and storytelling, and how they translate to product and packaging.
  • Conceptual thinker who can think “outside the box.”
  • Clear communication and presentation of vision and ideas.
  • Demonstrated strong technical skills.
  • Commitment to pursuing excellence with integrity, passion, and courage.
  • Consistency in words and actions.
  • Willingness to learn from personal and organizational experiences.
  • Dedication to self-improvement.
  • Support for new initiatives.
  • Flexibility in response to change.
  • Strong attention to detail, with the ability to work under pressure and prioritize workload.
  • Ability to communicate design ideas using freehand drawing, computer techniques, and/or third-party design resources to both internal and external stakeholders.

  

The Perks

  • 25 days annual leave
  • Private medical insurance & dental care
  • Free Park Entry: the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free
  • Disney Discounts: entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing
  • Excellent parental and guardian leave
  • Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney DIVERSITY, Disney PRIDE, our new disability & neurodiversity focused group - ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

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About Disney Experiences:

Disney Experiences brings the magic of Disney stories and franchises to life through theme parks, resorts, cruise ships, unique vacation experiences, products and more around the world. Disney shines in the travel industry with six resort destinations in the United States, Europe and Asia; a top-rated cruise line; a popular vacation ownership program; and an award-winning guided family adventure business. Plus, Disney's global consumer products operations include the world's leading licensing business; the world's largest children's publishing brands; one of the world's largest licensors of games across all platforms; and Disney store locations around the world and on the web.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with The Walt Disney Company Limited, which is part of a business we call Disney Experiences.

The Walt Disney Company Limited is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion or belief, sex, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, disability or pregnancy or maternity. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.

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