Design Assistant Manager, Snacks设计助理经理,休闲食品

Overview:

The main objective of this role is to drive major brand design projects across a specific product portfolio in Snacks category. This means planning, organizing, and implementing consistent design principles and production processes to ensure that the

design/production guardrails meet business and consumer’ expectation.

The Design Assistant Manager is responsible for initiation of comprehensive brand design Strategy and graphic design projects within Food / Snacks Group. Successful candidates will demonstrate superior ability to drive design thinking from ideation thru concept development, refinement, and execution.

Responsibilities:

• Participates in research activities to understand consumers’ preference and effectively translates customer needs into actionable design requirements. Execute those requirements into design solutions.
• Takes ownership of the visual identity for specific brands in the portfolio, working in collaboration with the Design Manager, Design director, Brand teams, Key Metrics and Parameters
• Portfolio aesthetic quality
• Cost saving
• Sales volume
• Market share insights teams and global design team while leading design team member.
• Generates creative design proposals (visions, scenarios, concepts) in order to visualize the desired output and share it with internal and external team members.
• Creates high quality brand design solutions by directly designing and leveraging internal/external design resources.
• Visualize and articulate his/her creative thinking to add value to the products and enhance consumers’ affinity.
• Responsible for driving to final design recommendations, decisions and design approval to enable artwork execution / production phases.
• Ensure thorough consideration of all project variables and that the final solution will perform as planned.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of deep brand design experience
• Graphic designer Degree or similar ( Not a must )
• Extraordinary design taste and skill
• Extraordinary ability in using the Adobe Creative Suite software ( 3D software is a Plus)
• Ability to work in dynamic work environment; is comfortable with risk and uncertainty
• Effectively communicates (verbally and written) with internal and external stakeholder across all levels
• Works well with others to deliver results; keeps others informed to avoid unnecessary surprises
• Proficiency in oral and written English ( is a plus)
• Capability to develop and visualize concepts through hand sketching or computer software
• An incurable curiosity relating to all design things
• Great passion for new and creative trends
• Highly collaborative
• Team oriented, brainstorming sessions or presenting in front of other team members
• Ability to work smoothly with a fast-paced interdisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate clear “point of view” relating to their design
• Open and optimistic with entrepreneurship
• Can work under pressure
• Portfolio required