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adm Promotions Packaging Development Director in Chicago, Illinois
adm is a global marketing procurement and brand execution agency that partners with leading global businesses. adm is the leader in the development of global end-to-end marketing solutions focusing on POS, packaging, promotional products, and print. We serve some of the world's iconic brands and provide our clients with tactical and bespoke promotional ideas, combined with creative insights and global buying power.
About the Role:
The Packaging Development Director is responsible to provide operational and business leadership ensuring effective delivery and stabilization of value-added packaging assets.
What would make you the perfect candidate?
You are technically efficient in secondary gift packaging.
You possess a strong business acumen in working directly with consumer facing clients across multiple disciplines ranging from procurement, brand management, and packaging engineering.
You enjoy being a leader, but also enjoy being a doer (getting your hands dirty).
You have passion in the 3 key areas: Packaging, Process & People.
If you check those boxes, please see the rest of what is required of the role!
This position supports the Account Management Teams across the business and reports to the Group Account Director who reports into the CEO of the Americas. This position will work in close contact with the account leads ensuring focus on packaging asset delivery while enabling the operational team to accelerate ramp up and stabilization of deployed assets.
General Responsibilities:
Deliver leadership to build a diverse and capable packaging solution process to the organization based in engineering first principles and operational excellence. Inclusive of Talent management, development, and retention within the Packaging Center organization.
Provide project and operational technical leadership to deliver packaging assets in an effective and accelerated manner.
Ability to lead and manage and execute specific tasks and projects related to meeting client deliverables.
Manage and lead a team of packaging members inclusive of production management, product development, and package engineering.
Be an active participant to represent operational packaging capabilities beyond the primary accounts (i.e. New Business Opportunities).
Partner with Account Management, Creative Services, Quality and Logistics leadership to deliver functionally strong and operationally centered results.
Deliver and support on client requirements which include design, build, verification, qualification, validation, and subsequent operation of packaging execution.
Develop and refine local processes and procedures for the operational function.
Ensure practice matches procedure.
Champion continuous improvement
Develop and maintain metrics to measure performance against business objectives including quality, savings and sustainability data and make necessary changes to improve performance.
Build and promote innovations to account teams to encourage proactive solution building to client partners.
Qualifications & Experience:
Minimum Requirements:
At least 7-10 years of secondary packaging development in print and packaging production.
At least 5 years previous management or leadership experience including leading or working effectively with a cross functional group.
At least 5 years of experience directly working with Consumer Product Goods Companies.
Additional Preferences:
Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
Ability to demonstrate product effectiveness in front of clients.
Strong technical aptitude and ability to train and mentor others
Ability to handle multiple competing priorities.
Solid understanding of basic requirements of regulatory agencies
Previous experience in operations and engineering
Previous experience with highly automated equipment
Previous equipment qualification and process validation experience
About us:
We are a truly international business with 34 offices around the world, over 29 years of industry experience, and over 550 employees worldwide. Our vision is to be recognized as the global marketing execution leader with a reputation for delivery, innovation, and service.
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