Job Summary
Marcom is a Global Marketing Communications group. We oversee all of the advertising and marketing to ensure the flawless development and execution of world-class communications.
Our packaging is another way we elevate our customer’s product experience through clear communication and thoughtful design. You get to use your passion for excellence in packaging to deliver world-class packaging.
The Marcom Packaging Research & Development Print Strategy and Planning Team ensures success in enabling our aesthetic and environmental goals for our packaging using new technologies, materials and processes. The Program Manager is responsible for collaboratively managing development activities including coordinating testing, reviews and fostering a seamless hand off to project teams in a fast-paced high pressure environment.
Key Qualifications
You have 8+ years project management experience in premium consumer packaging. You are comfortable to drive day-to-day activities to meet overall project objectives. We look to you to enable the development effort by creating and monitoring an efficient, streamlined process. Use your knowledge of printing processes to steer the team around pitfalls and direct activities and resources toward success. Collaborate and facilitate communication across Marcom, Operations, Environmental and our OEM partners to meet very aggressive cost, schedule, and quality goals. Apply your project management skills, to resolve issues in a timely manner and provide clear and tailored communication of status to various steak holders including executive management. Ability to filter and distill relevant information for the right audience. Self-motivated and dedicated with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities. Ability to work in a high-pressure dynamic environment. Understands and deals well with rapid development cycles; remains flexible and calm in the face of ambiguity.
Description
• Manage Packaging R&D projects driving development to build roadmap and implementation strategy collaboratively with cross functional teams.
• Organize meetings with cross functional team members, capture and communicate actions using project management tools to ensure deliverables meet deadlines.
• Arrange material reviews with project stakeholders, track findings and actions from iterations of reviews to present a clear path to success.
• Ability to create presentations using keynote and present progress to various stakeholders including executives with information focused on their particular needs.
1• Regularly update key internal and cross functional stake holders using written and verbal presentations.
• Manage the process of obtaining environmental clearance for all new materials.
• Manage and traffic POs and invoices in support of test activities.
• Document best practices and standard operating procedures and processes for both internal and external partners as a deliverable from the project.
Education
Bachelor of Science degree in Packaging and Print, preferred.
