Mid-weight Designer

Pact Coffee works with the world’s finest farmers to bring outstanding speciality coffee to UK consumers at a fair price, whilst improving lives and safeguarding farmers’ futures at origin.  

For over 10 years, we’ve been changing the industry from the ground up. We are intent on building long-term relationships with farmers that flourish. By putting the needs of farmers at origin first, rather than market investors, we can provide UK consumers with a quality of speciality coffee they won’t find anywhere else. 

Pact Coffee is a B Corporation with a carbon-neutral roastery, and all our packaging is fully recyclable. Our focus on sustainability extends to the farmers we work with, many of whom champion planet-first practices. 

Welcome to better coffee. Better for farmers, better for the planet, and better for you. 

Requirements

We’re looking for a Mid-weight Designer to join our Brand and Communications team for 12 months on a maternity cover basis. There is a potential opportunity for this role to become permanent during the period of the fixed-term contract, in line with our plans for business growth. We’ve come a long way over the last few years, with a strengthened visual identity and elevated digital and physical customer experience. Your role will be to support our Design team in creating, developing and implementing creative solutions across the business. 

As our Mid-weight Designer, your main responsibilities will include:

• Responding to and delivering on creative briefs from across the business and across multiple channels - primarily website, digital ads, email and social media
• Creating print and packaging artworked designs for a range of brand and marketing assets, including large format graphics, POS, brochures, branded packaging and events.
• Working closely with the Lead designer to translate brand, marketing and creative strategies into high-quality designs.
• Supporting on photography briefs and photo shoots
• Organising and maintaining design files and master assets
• Providing fresh thinking, strong ideas and a high level of design craftsmanship 
• Supporting the brand and wider teams.
• Being a great Pact brand ambassador

You’ll be perfect for the role if:

You’re highly motivated and enthusiastic, and passionate about all things design. With proven experience as a Junior or Middleweight Designer, you’re committed to bringing brand stories and creative briefs to life. You’ll thrive in this role if:

• You have 3-5 years’ design experience in agencies or in-house
• You have experience with FMCG branding, packaging and identity
• You have expert knowledge of Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. 
• You are a problem solver and enjoy bringing  fresh, new and innovative ideas to the team
• You have excellent understanding of the print and production process 
• You mix creative flair with commercial awareness, and you remain composed and focused when things get busy
• You are a proactive team player and thrive working collaboratively - we’re a tight-knit team
• Photo retouching and illustrative skills would be a bonus but not essential.

Benefits

If you’re still reading, then we might be a good match. At Pact Coffee, based at our HQ in Bermondsey, London, we offer the following employee experience….

• Salary up to £35K depending on experience 
• 23 days holiday (with paid time off between Christmas and New Year)
• An accessible and open workspace
• Flexitime (with core hours of 10-4)
• Hybrid working model (2 days a week in the London office)
• Monthly coffee allowance
• Unlimited coaching sessions with MoreHappi

Ready to apply?

Please send us your CV, along with a portfolio of design work you’ve executed for marketing campaigns across multiple channels.

Eligibility:

All vacancies advertised are based in the UK. It is unlawful to employ a person who does not have permission to live and work in the UK and we will therefore only consider applications from candidates who are eligible to work in the UK.

Equality Statement:

At Pact Coffee, we are committed to creating a working environment which is safe, based on mutual respect and enables people to be themselves. We acknowledge that the diversity of our workforce should be reflective of the society in which we live. Be that Age, Disability, Gender, Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Pregnancy and Maternity, Ethnicity, Religion or Belief and Marital Status, Education or Socio-Economic Background. Finally, we believe that championing diversity and inclusion among not only our employees, but also the farmers we work with is critical to our success.