Job Details
Position Job Title: Packaging Graphic Designer - CatalystTM
Company: Amcor Flexibles Europe, Middle East & Africa (AFEMEA)
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Function: Research & Development
Sub-Function: Amcor Innovation Center - Europe
Location: Gent, Belgium
Line Manager’s Job Title: Packaging Design Manager
Work contract Legal Entity: Amcor Flexibles Gent
Contract Details: Permanent position
Expected hiring date: 1st July 2023
Job Purpose
The Packaging Graphic Designer is responsible for development of the graphic designs that are related to the CatalystTM design services. You will adapt brand designs to the right packaging formats and manage the printed output needed for our physical prototypes. And be responsible for management of the digital proofing printers and print media.
ABOUT CATALYSTTM
The Amcor Innovation Centre – Europe will be the home of the new CatalystTM team. The CatalystTM team is responsible for the ideation, designing and prototyping of packaging concepts to support the customer engagement.
The Packaging Graphic Designer is a new non-existing role that needs to be shaped. You will work alongside our current industrial packaging designer and prototype designer and will support with graphical design and adaptations for virtual and physical prototyping. A knowledge of packaging artwork, prepress and colour management is required to create the virtual and printed prototypes.
Job Dimensions & Scope
Scope & Geographical spread: Amcor Flexibles Europe, Middle East and Africa, Cross Business Units
Reporting Function: Research & Development
Internal Relations: Sales, Marketing, Research & Development
External Relations: Customers, Suppliers
Location: Amcor Innovation Center Europe in Gent Belgium
Principal Accountabilities
- Manage graphic design and printed/unprinted mock-ups related processes according to customer or project requirements.
- Design and adapt efficient packaging layouts, and create packaging mock-ups from provided digital art, and specifications or from scratch.
- Support the creation of formal and informal technical drawings- Die-Lines - as part of designing a final package container based on project CTQs.
- Be hands on producing physical packaging mock-ups – wide range of package styles and formats - flexible, rigid components and hybrid.
- Ensure digital files’ artworks are set up to meet printing specifications and are in the best form possible to expediate the manufacturing process.
- Manage the digital proof printers and print media. Implement color profiling and color calibration on the printers
- Capable of utilizing the documented customer’s brand guidelines and understand the client’s product and process specification in order to present Graphic design solutions that meets the customer needs.
- Be familiar with the terms, tools, procedures of the production graphics departments.
- Workflow planning (considering priority shifts)
- Manage job priorities based on a schedule and maintain the job status updates to customers and internal contacts as needed. Taking responsibility to meet job deadlines.
- Maintain, improve and suggest mock-up tools and techniques to achieve successful results.
- Participate in innovation sessions, customer visits and other development initiatives.
Major Challenges & Complexities
- Manage of several projects at the same time
- Challenging leadtimes
- Manage prioritization shifts
- Lack of clear guidelines on customer needs, but be able to define strategies
Qualifications/Requirements
- Formal Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design or industrial design preferred
- Must have understanding of digital graphics, printing process and techniques, desktop publishing software and how they apply to the printing processes.
- Must have strong understanding of semiotics, ergonomic and design concepts. Must have visual culture, market and packaging visual communication standards and aesthetic principles.
- Must have strong physical mock-up production capabilities and be able to evolve and use the appropriate tools.
- Expert with Adobe Creative Suite & Artpro. Knowledge of GMG or XRite color management.
- Worked with flatbed or roll-feed proofing printers.
- Digital, Flexographic & Rotogravure printing experience preferred - Basic understanding of packaging flexible materials and converting processes preferred
- Fluent English, Dutch speaking preferred
- Specific Skills and Abilities
- Safety conscious
- Creative and strategic thinker
- Natural talent for design and a keen eye for detail. Must be quick, accurate and pro-active.
- Ability to work in fast paced environment (time and project management).
- Able to ‘connect the dots’ and identify solutions to problems not in traditional ways.
- Comfortable working with wide range of customer contacts - Ability to partner and work with internal and external customers.
- Strong organizational skills
