【Role Overview】
The Regional Design & Packaging Execution Lead is a highly collaborative role responsible for bridging the responsibilities of creative design and technical engineering. This position oversees the end-to-end packaging lifecycle—from initial graphics adaptation and prepress to the technical implementation of packaging materials and structures across regional manufacturing sites. As a Strong Integrator, the lead partners with creative, technical, and business stakeholders to ensure brand aesthetic integrity is maintained alongside technical rigor and functional performance.
● Function: Hill's Global Packaging
● Reporting Line: Reports to the Sr. Manager of Global Packaging

【Core Responsibilities】
This role merges the aesthetic integrity of brand design with the technical rigor of packaging engineering:
● Graphics & Print Excellence:
　・Artwork Stewardship: Maintain accountability for regional packaging graphics and print execution, ensuring seamless adaptation of design bundles.
　・Process Management: Ensure a clean hand-off from design adaptation to the artwork approval process while managing cost tracking for pre-mechanical activities.
　・Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement in the end-to-end artwork process, including KPI adherence and output quality.
● Technical Implementation & Development:
　・Sustainability Leadership: Lead the regional transition to sustainable mono-plastic packaging systems, ensuring all new materials meet recyclability goals without compromising barrier properties or shelf-life integrity.
　・Project Execution: Lead the implementation of regional packaging projects, coordinating development through prototyping, scale-up, and technology transfer.
　・System Specification: Ensure packaging equipment/material system specifications and functionality are appropriate for use at regional Co-packers and Co-manufacturers.
　・Testing & Validation: Coordinate package testing, analyze data, and assist Quality
teams in investigating packaging issues to ensure product integrity under various shipping conditions.
● Process & Quality Management:
　・Drive artwork excellence: Streamline processes and leveraging data to hit performance and quality targets.
　・ Ensure product integrity: Oversee rigorous package testing and partnering with Quality teams to solve real-world shipping and handling challenges.
● Operational Integration:
　・Cost & Efficiency: Identify cost-saving opportunities through cross-functional collaboration and material optimization.
　・Data Governance: Manage packaging material templates and codes (SAP, MDGM, etc.) and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for external partners.
　・Stakeholder Communication: Translate technical requirements for non-technical stakeholders to guide workable, collaborative solutions across the design-to-print chain.