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Colgate-Palmolive · 2 days ago

Director, Brand Design Hill's

Overland Park, KS

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$175K/yr - $195K/yr

15+ years exp

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. They are seeking a Director of Brand Design to lead brand initiatives and design strategies, focusing on innovation and experiential design across various platforms.

BeautyConsumer GoodsHealth CarePersonal Care and Hygiene

Comp. & Benefits

Responsibilities

Lead the Hill’s design team in delivering excellence in strategic brand-design experiences, focusing on packaging design systems, execution, and sustained activation for Global and Divisional brands

Drive the entire design process from blue-sky innovation to delivery, ensuring that high-level disruptive creative concepts are successfully translated into final, market-ready assets and scalable future platforms, while actively scouting and integrating emerging design trends and technologies to fuel brand growth

Ensure that high-level creative concepts are successfully translated into final, market-ready assets, covering the full design lifecycle from concepting to production and delivery

Partner closely with the Hill’s global brand marketing team to align design strategy with overall brand guidelines while adapting to local market needs, championing Design Thinking methodologies to solve complex business challenges

Mentor and grow the design team through hiring, training, and performance management, fostering a culture of fearless experimentation, rapid prototyping, and continuous design evolution

Drive design excellence standards with internal and external agency partners, spanning packaging, brand experience, and activation, challenging partners to co-create groundbreaking brand expressions and user-centric solutions

Qualification

Packaging DesignDesign LeadershipDigital DesignDesign ThinkingConsumer Product GoodsAgile PrinciplesOmni-channel ExperienceTeam DevelopmentStrategic InfluenceCommunication Skills

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Design or a related creative field

15+ years of professional design experience, primarily within the Consumer Product Goods (CPG) sector on Global brands, with a demonstrable portfolio showcasing design-led innovation and measurable business impact

Proven 'hands-on' packaging design skills with a deep understanding of great brand design systems, including brand equity, architecture, visual assets, and governance, with experience in implementing next-generation design tools and sustainable/smart packaging solutions

Demonstrated ability to manage the full design lifecycle, moving seamlessly from initial innovation, rapid prototyping, and concepting to final production and delivery, leveraging Agile design principles

Strong experience in Omni-channel environments, including a solid background in digital design, with proven expertise in designing for emerging platforms (e.g., AR/VR, personalized digital experiences)

Preferred

Proven ability to articulate and champion a design perspective that strategically influences business decisions, acting as a key voice for innovation at the executive level

Strong understanding of business drivers and the ability to navigate a complex, political matrix organization with conflicting agendas, demonstrating an entrepreneurial approach to identifying and capitalizing on new design opportunities

Excellent storytelling and influence skills to build consensus across the enterprise, capable of inspiring non-design stakeholders with a clear vision for the future of the brand experience