Senior Artwork Production Specialist

The Senior APS role (also sometimes known as the assistant artwork production manager) requires an individual who has exceptional executional and leadership skills to manage their portfolio within their BU/BG, acting as a talent catalyst for their immediate teams, APS counterparts, and coaching newcomers on the team. This role requires extensive Stakeholder management (lateral and vertical), interfacing with Functional heads, BG leaders, and external vendors. The portfolio encompasses responsibilities which can include presenting and influencing (using data & analytics) in BG operational meetings and/or other leadership forums, leading business changes & subsequent change management, improvement in ways of working, inventing new business models and optimizing processes, upskilling and capability building. The individual will act as the single point of contact for the Artwork Production Manager within their area of expertise. You will play a vital role in the areas of Design, Mechanical artwork development, AI/Automation, Colour management, and implement Processes to drive simplification in your projects. Your delivery will be measured through your rigorous engagement with brands and your ability to plan portfolio forecasts based on brand activity levels through management of various types of projects, such as innovations, promotions, SKU rationalization, complexity reduction, range standardization, cost saving, and other projects. The technical mastery of this role is to seamlessly manage the development & approval of packaging artwork via involvement in design through to commercially reproducible mechanical artwork and separations, which are handed over to the printer.