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Design Producer
Cincinnati
, Ohio $60.00/Hour
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Design Producer - Beauty Care
Cincinnati, OH
$55-60/HR
The Design Producer will be responsible for enabling design intent realization, ensuring technical fit-for-use, print feasibility, and quality execution on all print touchpoints for our brands. We are looking for someone with a deep understanding of the end-to-end design process: from design concept through design production. A passion for brand equity, a strong understanding of design principles to achieve visual consistency, exceptional project management and experience with print production are all skills critical for this role.
Design Producer Responsibilities:
Design Producer Requirements:
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Cincinnati, OH
$55-60/HR
The Design Producer will be responsible for enabling design intent realization, ensuring technical fit-for-use, print feasibility, and quality execution on all print touchpoints for our brands. We are looking for someone with a deep understanding of the end-to-end design process: from design concept through design production. A passion for brand equity, a strong understanding of design principles to achieve visual consistency, exceptional project management and experience with print production are all skills critical for this role.
Design Producer Responsibilities:
- You will be the graphic/2D 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.
- Partner with pre-press separators, printers, and regional Design Delivery resources 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 Global Design Template, Design Intent/Implementation Guidelines, and print feasibility confirmation delivery to regions.
- Manages projects within WebCenter, (a graphics lifecycle management tool).
- Provides low-level support regarding WebCenter to the multi-functional team.
- Utilize & manage daily project tracker to capture due dates, priorities, time spent, project details, status, and provide weekly updates to Design [and key business partners identified by Design]
- 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.
Design Producer Requirements:
- 4-year degree in Design-related field with minimum of 2 years of Design Production & Print experience (Design Firm, Printer, Production House preferred) or 4 years proven in-role experience in CPG industry and technical mastery.
- Deep understanding of pre-press and printing industry standards, print production, print processes, and press capabilities, inks, materials/substrates, specialty inks/finishes, proofing, and print trials.
- Experience with color theory and color management. Understanding of spectral color data & digital proofing.
- In depth understanding of the E2E packaging process [from design development through production], supply chain capabilities, fit for use considerations and requirements and how/where production/execution engages throughout process to ensure/enable print feasibility and design intent delivery.
- Solid understanding of design, the design creative process, brand equity, design assets, brand identity systems, production guidelines, and the importance of visual consistency – in design intent & print quality.
- Able to demonstrate leadership and strong collaboration skills with multifunctional teams and outside suppliers and be comfortable engaging with all management levels.
- Strong business communication skills – verbal and written. Ability to effectively communicate and present information.
- Disciplined with superior time and project management skills; possess the ability to set priorities, experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, with attention to detail and is accountable.
- Flexible in an environment of constant change. Able to engage and influence across functional partners.
- Software fluency in the latest graphics and business programs: Adobe CS (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat) and Microsoft (Outlook, PowerPoint, etc.).
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