Artwork Project Manager

Role Description

Capgeminis Connected Marketing Operations team delivers frictionless, digitally augmented, data-driven marketing services that drives a more agile connections and seamless experience with customers. This is critical in transforming your business, shaping new consumer values, and driving sales. Our next-generation digital marketing solutions leverage innovative marketing technologies to enrich brand’s digital strategy with relevant insights and data, maximize campaign and channel reach, and drive operational excellence and efficiency across the marketing organization.

We are seeking for a highly motivated individual to join our Capgemini Connected Marketing Services team as an Sr. Artwork Project Manager. This position will work closely with a key client’s global innovation and design teams and support the client team with delivery of packaging artwork projects.

Role Overview:

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Senior Artwork Project Manager to lead and oversee the end-to-end management of packaging artwork projects in our Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) company. This role is pivotal in ensuring timely and cost-effective delivery of high-quality artwork, driving continuous improvement, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to support business objectives

With over 12 years of experience and a strong background in project management, this individual will lead cross-functional meetings to align priorities, allocate resources effectively, and enhance artwork management efficiency. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in managing artwork development and the production process within a CPG company or a related industry.

Key Responsibilities:

• Overseeing end-to-end project management of packaging artwork delivery, continuously driving packaging artwork excellence
• Lead and oversee the multiple packaging artwork projects from design through to print package.
• Act as the primary liaison between internal teams (marketing, design, R&D, regulatory, supply chain) and external stakeholders (agencies, printers, suppliers).
• Sets agenda, and clearly defines cross-functional responsibilities from project start to completion.
• Facilitate regular communication to ensure alignment on project objectives and deliverables.
• Identify risks, bottlenecks, or delays in the artwork development process and implement solutions to mitigate them.
• Oversee artwork project reports that highlight progress, challenges, and solutions. Communicate these findings to senior artwork project managers and cross-functional teams to keep everyone informed and engaged.
• Manage feedback loops, consolidating inputs to minimize iterations and maintain efficiency.
• Act as a mentor/coach for associate artwork project managers and project coordinators.

Skills – needed but not limited to

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, design, project management, or a related field.​
• Proven experience in managing end-to-end process of artwork, printing and digital assets creation in a Consumer-Packaged Goods (CPG) environment​
• 10+ years of experience in artwork management and packaging within a CPG or FMCG environment with 6 years of experience leading a team.
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment across multiple functions (marketing, R&D, sourcing, design external agencies and operations)​
• Proficiency with project management tools such as Asana, Trello, Monday.com, or Jira is crucial for tracking tasks, deadlines, and progress.
• Familiarity in artwork and design software is beneficial; while direct design involvement is not required, a basic understanding of platforms like Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) can enhance communication with creative teams.
• Possess strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.​
• Highly collaborative, with strong experience working with Global & Local stakeholders
• Possess functional knowledge of marketing, branding and new product development ​
• Excellent interpersonal, written & verbal communication skills​Role & responsibilities

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