Nestlé USA is looking to solve the problem of ensuring operational excellence and consistency in the execution of designs for both physical and digital shelves, ensuring they resonate with consumer relevance and choice at every touchpoint. This role will drive the Design-to-Delivery (D2D) process for brand redesigns, new product innovations, renovations, CGI, and point of sale materials, ensuring high-quality packaging assets and marketing materials are delivered to meet strategic objectives.
Requirements
- Experience in creative design, photoshoot, artwork, prepress and different printing processes.
- Proven ability to drive process within complex, cross-functional new product development and large-scale brand redesign projects is required.
- Demonstrated strategic business and analytical skills; including understanding of key project management principles in the product development space (Time, Cost, Compliance, Feasibility, Risk Assessment, Design Goals, Problem Solving, Metrics, Formal Alignment) and how to leverage this knowledge to make sound business recommendations in a fluid strategic environment is required.
- Ability to interact with all levels of management and lead productive discussions without line authority to create alignment between senior cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience supporting business leadership via accurate and timely reporting on project status, vendor spend, and KPI data.
- An ability to drive a team forward, stay on track and reconfigure project delivery process if significant scope changes are required.
- Comfortable in facilitating a professional, fact-based, and transparent escalation process when necessary, removing roadblocks and securing project alignment on time as required.
Responsibilities
- The Lead is responsible for establishing design execution timelines, collaboratively defining project design scopes, end-to-end packaging budgets, while driving feedback clarity, and cross-functional stakeholder alignment.
- Manage project design brief kick-off(s) between internal brand teams and external agency partners to ensure the development of high-quality design assets that deliver against brief objectives, are on budget, and delivered on time.
- Drive the executional phases (adaptation, artwork, and pre-press) of Nestle’s Design to Delivery (D2D) process to maximize end-to-end efficiency and ensure successful implementation.
- Ensure a seamless transition from approved design intent through design adaptation, artwork and prepress processes.
- Manage press approvals with print vendors for new packaging designs.
- Act as a cross-functional process driver, and single point of contact for packaging label design, artwork and visual assets creation with end-to-end accountability.
- Engage with external agencies (prepress suppliers and print vendors) to ensure flawless execution of all new packaging.
Other
- This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.
- Minimum of a bachelor’s degree is required. A Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and/or similar industry certification, formal Process Excellence Training, or an MBA is a plus.
- Minimum 8 years of relevant business experience with increasing responsibility is required, including 5-7 years of formal project management experience in new product development, package design, labeling artwork or copy development areas.
- Excellent communication (verbal & written) and strong interpersonal skills are required.
- Prior agency or creative studio experience a plus.
