Project & Artwork Manager

Project & Artwork Manager

Job Description

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. 

As an Artwork & Project Manager, you will lead operational aspects of packaging artwork for Kimberly-Clark’s iconic brands, ensuring design execution excellence across an assigned business unit. In this role you’ll manage timelines, key milestones, and ensure projects stay on track for the end-to-end artwork process, from concept to final production, to deliver high-quality and consistent packaging that aligns with brand standards and strategic objectives.  You’ll be a member of the North America Design & Brand Identity team and work closely in partnership with brand teams, R&D, and design agencies.  This role requires someone who can work independently, moving fluidly within a fast-paced environment and who is well-versed in project management.  This is hybrid role based from Kimberly-Clark’s Chicago Commercial Center.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the creation and refinement of artwork and packaging copy for the assigned business unit, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines and marketing objectives.

• Oversee relationships with artwork agencies and printing partners to guarantee timely and high-quality execution of packaging artworks.

• Collaborate with cross-functional project teams to develop comprehensive timelines that integrate artwork creation, platemaking, and printing processes. Monitor and report on progress to ensure milestones are met.

• Support team members involved in the artwork process, ensuring adherence to established workflows and best practices.

• Oversee a user-centric, systematized, and fast artwork production process; and improve the digital platform of artwork and pack copy development.

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• 5+ years of artwork or packaging development/project management experience with technical knowledge of packaging design and printing processes.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in packaging design/brand design role required.

• Experience successfully developing, managing, and delivering on-time and within budget across multiple project timelines.

• Proficiency with project management methodologies and software (ex: Jira, Smartsheet, Trello, etc.)

• Excellent communication, influencing and negotiation skills across multiple stakeholders.

• Effective organizational skills and resilience to work under pressure with competing priorities.

• User-centric mind with the demonstrable experience to prove it.

Total Benefits

Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a comple