Associate Manager,Graphics

About the role

The International Consumer Brands Graphics Project Manager will lead the creative development of packaging graphics and related assets for international markets. Responsibilities include establishing and managing project timelines, managing a high-volume portfolio, connecting partners, ensuring print quality, driving continuous improvement, and supporting technology enhancements.

Responsibilities

• Establish and manage ICB graphics project timelines from ideation through Design Intent delivery, aligning work with business priorities and First Arrival Date (FAD) commitments.
• Manage the cross-category portfolio view, providing stakeholders with clear visibility to status, priority shifts, key deliverables, risks, and decision needs.
• Lead the handoff of ICB Design Intent and creative graphics materials to regional and local teams, ensuring requirements, timing, ownership, and execution expectations are clearly understood.
• Identify and resolve cross-market and cross-functional conflicts, facilitating decisions, tradeoffs, mitigation plans, and escalation when priorities, timing, resources, or requirements compete.
• Manage artwork workflows, reviews, approvals, and assets within WebCenter, Digital Asset Management (DAM), and related graphics systems.
• Engage global and regional print quality managers (RPQM) early in creative development to confirm feasibility, reduce downstream rework, and minimize delays and execution costs.
• Drive creative agency adherence to corporate, brand, and graphics standards and guidelines.
• Monitor, analyze, and report key graphics performance measures, including creative cycle time, revision rounds, and Right-the-First-Time performance, to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to improve quality, cycle time, efficiency, visibility, and cost.
• Support graphics technology, automation, systems, and workflow enhancements by helping identify, prioritize, and implement capabilities that improve ICB graphics execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Graphic Communications, Art & Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• 2+ years of project management experience managing complex timelines, dependencies, risks, and cross-functional deliverables.

Preferred Experiences and Skills

• Experience managing packaging graphics/artwork for international markets.
• Experience managing a high-volume portfolio of concurrent graphics projects across multiple categories, countries, regions, or markets.
• Knowledge of packaging artwork, graphics workflows, prepress, and production processes.
• Experience working with creative and/or pre-media agencies.
• Experience with Esko WebCenter, DAM systems, MS Project Pro, or comparable tools.
• Demonstrated success improving processes, quality, cycle time, efficiency, and/or cost.
• Strong project management, prioritization, organization, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to influence, collaborate, and drive accountability without direct authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills across functions, cultures, and organizational levels.
• Resourceful, adaptable, detail-oriented, and deadline-driven.