Design Delivery Specialist - Artwork

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Design Delivery Specialist (DDS)

The Design Delivery Specialist partners with Brand Design and multi-discipline internal/external partners on packaging artwork projects throughout the design development and design execution. Responsible for enabling design intent realization, ensuring technical fit-for-use and print feasibility, leads design intent implementation and ensures quality and consistent visual execution across all product forms and variants at FMOT.

This role requires a fundamental understanding of design, brand identity and design standards/guidelines, combined with a deep understanding of standard industry pre-press & printing knowledge, materials & substrates, and artwork file construction/ requirements.  Strong, proven leadership, communication, collaboration, influencing, and project management skills required.

Important Responsibilities

• Graphic/2D package design execution expert on multifunctional [internal & external] initiative teams, utilizing deep understanding of supply chain fit-for-use requirements, pre-press & printing, and print feasibility to ensure design intent realization. Responsible for executing with excellence.
• Partners with pre-press & printers and global Design Delivery resources [when applicable] to assess print feasibility of design concepts, identify alternate solutions, plan & attend print trials, confirm final design intent print feasibility, ensure visual consistency delivered at shelf, and resolve quality issues
• Plans and manages design execution work and critical path schedule, owns elevating issues, with implications, to key business partners, at-the-right-time, to enable informed decision-making and effective resolution, and drive on-time/on-quality artwork file delivery
• Manages projects within WebCenter, a graphics lifecycle management tool.  Provides low-level support regarding WebCenter to the multi-functional team. 
• Delivers Core Packaging Work, utilizing BIC processes, technology, tools.
• Independently and collaboratively brings innovative ideas/search & reapply learning that drive continual improvements in quality, productivity and efficiency.
• Proactively explores both cost savings and cost avoidance opportunities.  Able to accurately track all Design Delivery metrics on a quarterly/annual basis. 
• Builds capability & mastery in self and Design delivery community, and actively drives organization/company process transformation efforts
• Builds E2E Artwork capability & mastery in self.

Success measures:

• CIC / Graphic Adaptation / Color Development Meets Design Intent (quarterly assessment from design)
• Design Intent consistently reproduced across all pack forms
• CIC / Graphic Adaptation / Color Development delivered on time against initiative CPS
• Zero QI/SQI related to Design
• CIC / Graphic Adaptation / Color Development delivered on budget
• FMOT: CIC / Graphic Adaptation / Color Development Meets Design Intent (quarterly assessment from design)
• Speed (from AW kick off to FA approval)/Regional specific.

Job Qualifications

Degree in graphic design/related field and/or 2-3 years of experience in graphic and/or print production.

• + Munsell Test score of ‘Average Discrimination’ minimum, ‘Superior Discrimination’ preferred.

Fluency in Graphic Design Tools

• Proficient in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Adobe InDesign

Brand Equity & Design Understanding

• Strong understanding of brand architecture, design language/identity systems, equity assets and application of design principles to achieve visual consistency. 
• Ability to quickly assess design concepts
• Ability to adapt and apply design intent across variants, diverse product forms, substrates and various print processes through the approval process for representative artworks

PEAK Soft Skills

• Execute with Excellence
• Leads with Courage
• Champion Productivity

About us

We produce globally recognized brands and we grow the best business leaders in the industry. With a portfolio of trusted brands as diverse as ours, it is paramount our leaders are able to lead with courage the vast array of brands, categories and functions. We serve consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ariel®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Herbal Essences®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, Tampax® and more. Our community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide.

Visit http://www.pg.com to know more.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship, disability, HIV/AIDS status, or any other legally protected factor.

“At P&G, the hiring journey is personalized every step of the way, thereby ensuring equal opportunities for all, with a strong foundation of Ethics & Corporate Responsibility guiding everything we do.

All the available job opportunities are posted either on our website - pgcareers.com, or on our official social media pages, for the convenience of prospective candidates, and do not require them to pay any kind of fees towards their application.”

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