Product Design and Development Associate - Health & Beauty
Postuler maintenant Postuler ultérieurement Job ID 10129719 Emplacement Londres, Royaume-Uni Entreprise Disney Experiences Date de publication 03/09/2025Résumé du poste:
About The Role & Team
As a Product Design & Development Associate at Disney, you’ll play a key role in shaping innovative, high-quality consumer products that reflect the magic of our stories and characters. This role offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with licensees and internal teams across the EMEA region, guiding product development from concept through to production.
You’ll contribute creative direction, trend insights, and design feedback across both 2D and 3D formats, while ensuring all products align with Disney’s brand standards and approval processes. With a strong focus on collaboration, market awareness, and storytelling through design, you’ll help bring Disney’s beloved properties to life in ways that delight fans of all ages.
This is a permanent position located at our London office in Hammersmith, requiring four days of on-site attendance per week.
What You Will Do
- Manage the product approval process for Health & Beauty items from initiation to production, ensuring all submissions follow Disney’s Online Product Approval (OPA) system and comply with global product integrity guidelines, corporate policies, and TWDC brand standards
- Collaborate with Health & Beauty licensees to provide design direction, trend inspiration, and constructive feedback on packaging, formulation presentation, and both 2D and 3D product submissions, while developing compelling product pitches, visuals, and mock-ups to support innovation and quality
- Support and guide new and existing Health & Beauty licensees by sharing knowledge of the Disney brand, property portfolio, creative assets, and approval systems, ensuring they have access to the tools and resources needed for successful product development
- Build and maintain strong, respectful working relationships with Health & Beauty licensees and internal/external partners, contributing to team efforts across regional, local, and global levels as needed
- Stay informed about Disney’s characters, films, properties, and creative assets, as well as Health & Beauty market trends, leading brands, and pop culture, to help inform inclusive and relevant product design
- Participate in inspiration trips and retail safaris across the EMEA Health & Beauty landscape to identify new ideas, packaging innovations, and creative solutions that drive category growth
- Apply commercial awareness of Health & Beauty design and packaging trends and their application to licensed products, and engage constructively in reviewing and enhancing licensee design output
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the Health & Beauty category, including product formats, packaging technologies, and manufacturing processes from 2D print to 3D component development
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Degree level education in Product Development preferred. Experience in Product Management also good.
- Proven commercial product development/packaging development experience in the health and Beauty industry with product development experience at a licensee, retail head office or company
- Beauty trends experience desirable
- Knowledge of trends within the industry of relevant category and the broader world of design with working knowledge of common manufacturing techniques and their application in production
- An ability to communicate a clear product design brief and basic design ideas using CAD drawing, computer techniques and/or third party design resources
- An ability to deliver against set deadlines and budgets as directed
- Strong design and conceptual skills
- Understanding of fabric, colour and product design
- Presentation skills with the ability to effectively present design ideas to internal/external stakeholders at all levels
- Understanding of production techniques and graphic applications with an eye for colour and shape, preferred
- In depth knowledge of fabrics and stitching techniques, preferred
- Ability to influence and support change amongst stakeholders
- Written and spoken English for business use, essential; other European languages, beneficial
- Computer literate including Mac OSX, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and MS Office
- Cultural sensitivity and an understanding of local markets across EMEA
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.
Sur Disney Experiences:
Disney Experiences donne vie à la magie des histoires et des franchises Disney à travers des parcs à thème, des complexes hôteliers, des bateaux de croisière, des expériences de vacances uniques, des produits et bien plus encore dans le monde entier. Disney excelle dans l’industrie du voyage avec six destinations de villégiature aux États-Unis, en Europe et en Asie, une compagnie de croisières de premier plan, un programme de propriété de vacances très populaire, et une agence primée d’aventures guidées en famille. De plus, les opérations mondiales de produits de consommation de Disney comprennent la plus grande entreprise de licences au monde, les plus grandes marques d’édition pour enfants au monde, l’un des plus grands concédants de licence de jeux au monde sur toutes les plateformes, et les magasins Disney dans le monde entier et sur le Web.
Sur The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, ainsi que ses filiales et sociétés affiliées, forme l’une des principales entreprises internationales diversifiées de divertissement familial et de médias. Elle comprend trois secteurs d'activités essentiels : Disney Entertainment, ESPN et Disney Experiences. Depuis ses modestes débuts en tant que studio de dessins animés dans les années 1920 jusqu’à son statut de référence actuel dans le secteur du divertissement, Disney poursuit fièrement sa tradition de création d’histoires et d’expériences exceptionnelles pour tous les membres de la famille. Les histoires, les personnages et les expériences de Disney touchent les consommateurs et les visiteurs du monde entier. À travers nos activités présentes dans plus de 40 pays, nos employés et cast members collaborent pour créer des expériences de divertissement appréciées à la fois au niveau universel et local.
Le poste est rattaché à The Walt Disney Company Limited , qui fait partie d’une entreprise que nous appelons Disney Experiences.
The Walt Disney Company Limited est un employeur qui souscrit au principe d’égalité des chances à l’emploi. Les candidats seront pris en considération pour l’emploi sans tenir compte de l’âge, de la race, de la couleur de peau, de la religion ou des convictions, du sexe, de la nationalité, de l’origine ethnique ou nationale, de l’orientation sexuelle, du changement de sexe, du statut marital ou civil, du handicap, de la grossesse ou de la maternité. Disney favorise une culture commerciale où les idées et décisions de tous et toutes nous aident à grandir, innover, créer les meilleures histoires et être pertinents dans un monde en évolution rapide.