Design Excellence Designer illustration / Typography
Reckitt Benckiser Group plc., Slough
Design Excellence Designer illustration / Typography
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Reckitt Benckiser Group plc., Slough
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 11 Jul | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 0086db84df264163b10200b3c2cc4b79
Full Job Description
Marketing is at the heart of Reckitt. We pride ourselves on our unique way of driving growth for some of the world's most loved and trusted health, hygiene and nutrition brands. Our purpose and fight are what motivates us to design and deliver distinctive communications throughout our consumer funnel, so that we deliver category growth as well as a positive impact on society. With extensive media and digital teams embedded throughout the organisation, we measure both our business and our societal impact. Our global teams lead on our overarching brand strategy, brand guardianship and innovation pipeline in close partnership with R&D. Leaving our local marketing teams to deliver on our regional goals in partnership with our Sales teams. With the scale of our 2500 marketing community - alongside our leading-edge Marketing Academy - your opportunities to grow and upskill will be extensive., The Designer - Illustration & Typography plays a key role in shaping the visual storytelling and identity systems of Reckitt's Powerbrands through bespoke illustration, iconography, and type design. Sitting within the Branding & Packaging discipline, this role delivers finely crafted assets that express brand personality, enhance consumer understanding, and elevate packaging and communication design.
This is a hands-on, midweight design role for a creative with strong illustrative ability and a deep passion for typographic detail. The designer will work closely with Design Leads, Senior Design Managers, and external partners to develop ownable visual assets that reinforce brand distinctiveness across global markets.
Your responsibilities
1. Illustration & Iconography Design
Create custom illustrations, icons, and graphic elements that align with brand tone, positioning, and product benefits.
Support the development of visual storytelling frameworks, including packaging infographics and scientific visuals.
Design visual assets that enhance consumer navigation, education, and shelf standout.
Translate briefs into flexible, scalable graphic solutions for both digital and physical applications.
2. Typography & Lettering
Develop and refine bespoke letterforms, logotypes, and type systems for brand identity and communication.
Customise fonts and typographic layouts to improve legibility, hierarchy, and brand voice.
Work with Design Leads to define typographic principles for global toolkits and brand guidelines.
Contribute to the creation of multilingual or regionally adapted typographic systems, where required.
3. Visual Craft & Design Delivery
Work alongside Branding & Packaging designers to embed illustration and typographic solutions into full pack designs.
Deliver production-ready artwork with strong attention to vector quality, line weight, colour profiles, and resolution.
Ensure consistency across product ranges and brand families.
Maintain Reckitt's high standards for craft, originality, and executional excellence.
4. Collaboration & Governance
Collaborate with external illustration or lettering partners, where additional craft or scale is needed.
Align with the Global Head of Design Operations and Senior Activation roles to ensure artwork is deployable.
Contribute to the development of asset libraries and reusable design components.
Participate in reviews and critiques, continuously improving output and strengthening brand consistency.
Experience in illustration or typographic design, ideally within an agency or consumer brand setting.
Strong portfolio of custom illustration, iconography, and type-based design work.
Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign) and vector illustration tools.
Familiarity with packaging and brand identity systems is preferred.
Skills
Illustration Craft: Skilled in developing unique and expressive hand-drawn and digital artwork.
Typographic Sensibility: Strong grasp of hierarchy, layout, kerning, and custom lettering.
Brand Application: Able to translate brand positioning into visual storytelling.
Design Execution: Confident in producing artwork ready for both print and digital delivery.
Technical Precision: Well-versed in colour, resolution, and file preparation standards.
Mindset
Craft-Driven: Passionate about design quality, detail, and originality.
Collaborative: Comfortable working across disciplines and taking direction from multiple leads.
Inquisitive & Resourceful: Seeks inspiration and continuously improves personal design practice.
Brand-Led: Understands how illustration and typography reinforce brand worldbuilding.
Adaptable & Curious: Excited by new styles, formats, and cultural cues.
The skills for success
Brand Strategy, Presentation skills, Drive Innovation, Storytelling, Creativity, Digital Marketing, Commercial acumen, Collaboration, FMCG/Consumer Health Experience.
Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.
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