Graphic Design Manager Inco North America

About the role

As Graphic Design Manager, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality design solutions across our Continence Care category in North America . Acting as the link between internal stakeholders and external agencies, you will ensure that design execution is timely , aligned with brand guidelines, and adapted to local market needs. Working in a matrix organization, you will manage multiple design flows simultaneously - balancing strategic input with hands-on coordination and planning . You'll collaborate closely with Marketing, Technical Packaging, and suppliers to ensure each design meets business, regulatory, and production requirements while maintaining consistency and efficiency. This is a hybrid role based in Philadelphia . The role reports to the Senior Manager Graphic and Pack Design , in the Master Brand & Communications Team in the Continence Care Category.

Responsibilities

• Artwork Coordination: Ensure the end-to-end delivery of artwork and print files - from input gathering , managing translations to final artwork approval across stakeholders , and initiating prepress work
• Process Management: Coordinate parallel design workflows, ensuring timelines are met and deliverables remain aligned with plans . We're right now in a transition phase, and experience from working in artwork systems is a requirement.
• Agency Collaboration: Brief external design agencies, assign tasks, and provide structured feedback on artwork and concepts
• Stakeholder Alignment: Independently lead and c ollaborate with ing cross-functional teams across geographies, including Marketing, Packaging, and Brand to ensure quality in output, efficient processes and timely deliveries
• Design Implementation: Adapt master designs across product variants and markets while ensuring compliance with brand guidelines
• Quality & Compliance: Safeguard high standards of design quality and ensure production feasibility, including print considerations as well as regulator y and quality requirements due to medical device classification in EU.
• Continuous Improvement: Contribute to efficient workflows and cost optimization by identifying smarter design and production solutions

Requirements

• You thrive in a fast-paced environment , and bring a structured, proactive, and solution-oriented mindset. You take ownership of your work and confidently manage multiple parallel activities, ensuring high-quality output and timely delivery.
• You collaborate effectively across teams and feel comfortable working with both internal stakeholders and external partners. With clear communication and a hands-on approach, you contribute to smooth workflows and continuous improvement.
• You combine attention to detail with a broader perspective, always ensuring that designs meet brand guidelines, market needs, and business objectives .
• You have:
• Higher education within relevant field , e.g. Graphic Design
• Experience in graphic design development and artwork coordination , with a deep understanding of artwork creation workflows and knowledge from working in artwork systems
• Experience from printing processes , in particular Flexo printing is important
• Strong project management skills within a cross-functional environment , with a capability to visualize time plans and create alignment on thresholds and milestones
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in a dynamic environment
• Fluent in English
• Knowledge in SAP is an advantage
• What We Can Offer You
• At Essity, we believe every career is as unique as the individual and empower employees to reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose.
• Compensation and Benefits :
• Expected Compensation
• Competitive annual salary + annual incentive bonus + benefits
• Pay offered may vary dependin

Benefits

Additional Information

Graphic Design Manager Essity is a global leader in health and hygiene headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with a North American headquarters located in Philadelphia, PA. We are a multi-billion-dollar company with a purpose to break barriers to well-being for the benefit of consumers, patients, care givers, and customers across the globe. We do this through innovations in our Professional Hygiene, Personal Care , and Health & Medical business units that provide hygiene and health solutions to over a billion people every day worldwide. Working at Essity is more than a career, it is where you will play your part in a better future, to improve well-being for people and have opportunities to drive positive change for society and the environment . As an employee at Essity, you will belong to a team where you feel valued, are safe, supported to grow and challenged to generate business results in a friendly and open atmosphere. Want to shape packaging design that reaches millions across Europe? Ready to bring creativity and structure together in a fast-paced, international environment? Then this might be an opportunity for you!

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