Creative Coordinator, Packaging

Implus

About The Position

As the Creative Coordinator, Packaging, you will play a vital role in our Marketing team’s success. You will manage the creative briefing process for all packaging through coordination of cross-functional teams and timely aggregation and submission of all packaging information – including but not limited to – product details, visual content, copy, legal, and compliance. The role will be responsible for gathering critical information and submitting seasonal packaging briefs that include brand-verified information, as well as, ensuring that packaging meets commercially compliant regulations and standards, as provided by Regulatory and Compliance. The Creative Coordinator, Packaging role is accountable for ensuring packaging briefs are submitted on time and in-full with an output that is consistent with brand guidelines. This role will support packaging for brands in the Consumer, Entrepreneurial, and Footwear Accessories categories at Implus.

Requirements

A minimum of 2 years of packaging and/or project management experience is preferred
Ability to manage multiple high-priority tasks and projects at a time
Highly collaborative with a natural ability to manage different working styles
Excellent organizational and time management skills
Natural ability to follow timelines and encourage broader adherence to milestones
High competence in project and stakeholder management
Sharp attention to detail
An Associate and / or Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Project Management or a related field of study is preferred.
Hearing: Ability to effectively communicate with co-workers, customers and vendors.
Operate: Write, type and use the telephone, copier, and computer systems.
Mobility: Occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, attend meetings, etc.
Communicate: Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.

Nice To Haves

A passion for collaborating across teams
A dedication to developing brand stories and memorable brand awareness
Professional and proactive work ethic with a desire to grow professionally – particularly in the Marketing department
Interest in brand and / or retailer marketing.
Familiarity with the creative side of marketing and design.

Responsibilities

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Lead end-to-end development and submission of packaging briefs into Creative team through aggregation of cross-functional inputs from Product, Marketing, Creative, Legal, and Compliance.
Gather all packaging components and information for packaging briefs – including die lines, packaging copy and imagery, and regulatory claims and information.
Liaise with Brand Project Manager to support prioritization of packaging projects within the broader Creative queue.
Direct engagement with Legal and Compliance to gather information for packaging brief to be compliant with Brand, Operations Compliance, and Commercial regulations and standards – including implementation of claims, warnings, icons, and retailer-specific requirements.
In collaboration with the US Commercial team, react to commercial opportunities to communicate packaging needs back into the Creative team – including delivery timelines, die lines, languages, and retailer and regional compliance information
Included in packaging proofing process with Creative team to enable on-time production.
Manage sell-in packaging requests, inclusive of commercial requests.
Liaise with third-party packaging vendors to complete and deliver retailer-specific packaging mock-ups, as needed.
Creative: Coordinate with Creative, Product and Marketing teams to confirm and obtain product and lifestyle imagery to be featured on packaging.
Monitor physical packaging proofing progress via shared documentation, with collective inputs from Product Development, Creative and Product Management.
Branding and Messaging: Maintain brand standards and guidelines across all packaging.
Drive alignment with Marketing and Product teams on approved messaging for packaging.
Work with Product team to aggregate content and messaging for inserts and manuals that help the consumer understand how to use the product.
Identify the need for translations and support the Marketing and Creative teams in implementing translations for regional markets, as needed.
Other Functions: Packaging Engineering Coordination: Coordinate with Packaging Engineers to receive die lines that meet product and retail needs.
Support the Compliance team with distribution of H2R logos as they apply to packaging and assist with submissions only as needed.
Private Label Packaging: Manage the coordination of packaging deliverables needed to support Private Label business(es).