About the role
Position Snapshot
Business area: Nestle Canada Inc
Job Title: Design to Delivery (D2D) Packaging Partner
Location: North York, ON located at 25 Sheppard Ave W, North York, ON M2N 6S8; Hybrid
Grade: 16
Position Summary:
Drive the end-to-end execution of packaging visual communications for innovation, renovation, and design updates across multiple Nestlé brands. Collaborate with brand leads and cross-functional teams to ensure flawless delivery from concept to shelf, aligned with Nestlé standards.
A day in the life of an D2D Packaging Partner:
- Act as the marketing liaison for agency selection, briefing, and artwork timeline management.
- Lead the Design-to-Delivery (D2D) workflow, ensuring timely and accurate inputs from all stakeholders.
- Manage relationships with internal and external design, artwork, and pre-press partners.
- Develop and maintain D2D timelines, & Inputs, facilitate meetings, and manage /resolve project risks.
- Oversee label copy accuracy via Copy Deck (Label D) and coordinate UPC/SCC creation.
- Oversight and Management of ContentHub facilitating functional inputs, ensure final artwork and digital assets are archived following standardized procedures
- Ensure accuracy and on-time delivery for artwork files
- Deliver print-ready files to pre-press and printers, including UPC scan testing.
- Support excellence in operational packaging execution, determining optimization efficiencies across intersection points between cross functional teams and categories
- Provide print guidance and support to marketing on packaging innovation.
Role Requirements
- 3+ years experience in project management, design or consumer marketing at Nestlé with training or knowledge in print production for packaging, or 2+ years design agency experience in account management and/or project management. Ideally experience in both.
- Experience in leading and managing cross-functional teams, managing agency relationships, and deep experience managing packaging artwork projects from brief development through to print execution.
- Completion of a University degree or diploma
- Strong project management and communication skills.
- Passion for packaging design and print innovation.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple priorities in fast pace environment
About Nestlé
As the world’s largest food and beverage company we are driven by a simple aim: unlocking the power of food to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come. To deliver on this, we serve with passion, with a spirit of excellence, offering products and services for all stages of life, every moment of the day, helping people care for themselves and their families. Our culture is based on our values rooted in respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity and respect for the future.
We can trace our origin back to 1866, when the first European condensed milk factory was opened in Cham, Switzerland, by the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company. One year later, Henri Nestlé, a trained pharmacist, launched one of the world’s first prepared infant cereals ‘Farine lactée’ in Vevey, Switzerland.
Today, we employ around 273,000 people and have factories or operations in almost every country in the world. With our headquarters still based in the Swiss town of Vevey, we had sales of CHF 84.3 billion in 2020.
Our portfolio covers almost every food and beverage category –offering products and services for all stages of life, every moment of the day, helping people care for themselves and their families.
House rules: https://nes.tl/HouseRules
About the role
Position Snapshot
Business area: Nestle Canada Inc
Job Title: Design to Delivery (D2D) Packaging Partner
Location: North York, ON located at 25 Sheppard Ave W, North York, ON M2N 6S8; Hybrid
Grade: 16
Position Summary:
Drive the end-to-end execution of packaging visual communications for innovation, renovation, and design updates across multiple Nestlé brands. Collaborate with brand leads and cross-functional teams to ensure flawless delivery from concept to shelf, aligned with Nestlé standards.
A day in the life of an D2D Packaging Partner:
- Act as the marketing liaison for agency selection, briefing, and artwork timeline management.
- Lead the Design-to-Delivery (D2D) workflow, ensuring timely and accurate inputs from all stakeholders.
- Manage relationships with internal and external design, artwork, and pre-press partners.
- Develop and maintain D2D timelines, & Inputs, facilitate meetings, and manage /resolve project risks.
- Oversee label copy accuracy via Copy Deck (Label D) and coordinate UPC/SCC creation.
- Oversight and Management of ContentHub facilitating functional inputs, ensure final artwork and digital assets are archived following standardized procedures
- Ensure accuracy and on-time delivery for artwork files
- Deliver print-ready files to pre-press and printers, including UPC scan testing.
- Support excellence in operational packaging execution, determining optimization efficiencies across intersection points between cross functional teams and categories
- Provide print guidance and support to marketing on packaging innovation.
Role Requirements
- 3+ years experience in project management, design or consumer marketing at Nestlé with training or knowledge in print production for packaging, or 2+ years design agency experience in account management and/or project management. Ideally experience in both.
- Experience in leading and managing cross-functional teams, managing agency relationships, and deep experience managing packaging artwork projects from brief development through to print execution.
- Completion of a University degree or diploma
- Strong project management and communication skills.
- Passion for packaging design and print innovation.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple priorities in fast pace environment
About Nestlé
As the world’s largest food and beverage company we are driven by a simple aim: unlocking the power of food to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come. To deliver on this, we serve with passion, with a spirit of excellence, offering products and services for all stages of life, every moment of the day, helping people care for themselves and their families. Our culture is based on our values rooted in respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity and respect for the future.
We can trace our origin back to 1866, when the first European condensed milk factory was opened in Cham, Switzerland, by the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company. One year later, Henri Nestlé, a trained pharmacist, launched one of the world’s first prepared infant cereals ‘Farine lactée’ in Vevey, Switzerland.
Today, we employ around 273,000 people and have factories or operations in almost every country in the world. With our headquarters still based in the Swiss town of Vevey, we had sales of CHF 84.3 billion in 2020.
Our portfolio covers almost every food and beverage category –offering products and services for all stages of life, every moment of the day, helping people care for themselves and their families.
House rules: https://nes.tl/HouseRules