Graphic Design Development Manager

Our clients are primarily consumer products companies and printers and we help them by delivering a broad range of services from brand strategy and packaging design, to adaptive design across various print and digital platforms, all the way to color management and the production of printing plates. A Graphic Design Development Manager is a planner and project leader who owns and drives design updates for a specific international commercial terms' assortment managing projects from artwork, via prepress and printing to ready printed material, in sync with input from Essity stakeholders to bring their brands to life and effectively servicing our client. As an Olberding Brand Family team member at the client location, the Graphical Design Specialist has accountability for ensuring projects meet client needs and expectations are balanced with Olberding Brand Family's internal objectives. If you love project management, consumer products, packaging, and a fast-paced environment, this may be the role for you. Duties and Responsibilities Include: • Working with client's team from various functions to gather information related to projects and initiate projects • Drive the artwork and prepress work according to defined technical, regulatory, legal, qualitative, design and brand requirements • Communicate needed information and timing expectations to the internal client's staff • Track the overall schedule of work and serves as the gatekeeper for milestones between internal systems and other packaging lifecycle systems used by client • Act as the liaison between Olberding Brand Family, printers, design studios and client to convey issues and concerns on behalf of client • Interface with the entire supply chain of partners involved in the production of packaging graphics for the client • Drive cost efficiency in artwork creation and implementation, prepress and print • Represent GD team and provide graphic design expertise in meetings when requested • Plan, manage and follow up costs related to artwork and prepress as needed • Support transfer of knowledge, skills and best practice within Essity • Contribute to continuously increase efficiency and quality in ways of working, and to remove barriers to execution • Lead the development of translations of master texts for Innovation Projects • Approve printed substrates according to color proofs